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SlashDotJul 28, 2026
Apple Retires iPhone Upgrade Program For Klarna-Backed Leases


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Apple Upgrade: 20 Things to Know Before Leasing an iPhone, iPad, or Mac (Mac Rumors)
Apple Upgrade is a great deal on paper, but make sure you read the fine print (Engadget)

Mac RumorsJul 28, 2026
'Apple Upgrade' Pricing: You Can Lease an iPhone Starting at $18/Month
As expected, the Apple Upgrade program launched today, allowing customers in the U.S. to lease most iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac models. While the program is offered by Apple, the leasing is handled by financing company Klarna.


CNET NewsJul 28, 2026
Apple Upgrade Program Will Let You Lease an iPhone Without Sticker Shock
The program will take the sting out of owning Apple devices, including Macs, iPads and Apple Watches.

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Apple Upgrade is a subscription program for the company's devices (Engadget)

Mac RumorsJul 28, 2026
Best Back to School Accessory Deals on Anker, Sony, Samsung and More This Week
There's a big accessory sale happening on Amazon this week, with the year's best prices on Anker chargers, Samsung monitors, Sonos audio products, and much more.


Mac RumorsJul 28, 2026
OpenAI's First Devices: Speaker, Smartphone, and More
OpenAI's hardware roadmap has sharpened considerably in recent months, with its first device now identified, a smartphone said to be arriving as soon as next year, and a wider lineup taking shape behind them.


Yahoo TechnologyJul 28, 2026
Apple launches Klarna device lease program starting at $17.99/month


ComputerWorldJul 27, 2026
Hackers are compromising hotel Wi-Fi gateways to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts
Traveling enterprise employees beware: Think twice before you log onto that oh-so-convenient public Wi-Fi.

Since at least June, threat actors have been compromising "captive" Wi-Fi gateways and other portal appliances at hotels, conference centers, and similar shared venues to hijack users' Microsoft 365 accounts, according to the ReliaQuest Threat Research team.

Once a threat actor controls a gateway, they can silently redirect a user's traffic to their own infrastructure and steal their Microsoft 365 credentials without ever touching the user's device, compromising endpoints, or sending phishing links or malicious attachments.

"The most dangerous element is that it operates at the network gateway, which sits beneath most of the trust assumptions users and devices make," ReliaQuest told CSO Online. "It's not necessarily an enterprise breach level event on its own, but it's a very real risk to individual accounts."

Exploiting a ‘fundamental trust' Domain Name System (DNS) poisoning, in which false data is injected to redirect regular web traffic to fraudulent domains, has previously been observed on small office routers, but attackers are now expanding the technique to higher-level targets, the ReliaQuest researchers explained in a blog post.

Attackers l


Mac RumorsJul 24, 2026
Meta Launches Free 'Facebook Verified' Badge to Confirm Real Users
Meta today announced Facebook Verified, a free badge designed to confirm that a Facebook profile belongs to a real person rather than an AI-generated fake.


ComputerWorldJul 22, 2026
Own nothing, upgrade everything: Apple's new Klarna deal
Just in time for the iPhone's 20th anniversary, Apple is moving closer to becoming a service company. It is set to launch its new deal with Klarna next week and when it does, Apple enthusiasts in the US will effectively be able to subscribe to their favorite Apple hardware, with the cost spread across up to three years.

This matters because when combined with Apple One and Apple's Creator Studio subscriptions, the Klarna arrangement brings Apple closer to offering a full subscription model for hardware, software, and services. The only thing you don't get under the new arrangement is AppleCare, for which you'll allegedly need to pay extra.

Moving closer to hardware-as-a-service Apple has slowly been transitioning toward hardware-as-a-service for almost a decade. Back then, Forrester analyst Frank Gillet predicted the company would eventually offer bundles of services and products for a monthly, all-in, fee. 

This isn't quite where we are yet; you still need at least three subscriptions to get close. But, after the better part of a


PC World Latest NewsOct 14, 2025
I tested Nvidia's DLSS 4 on a laptop. It's great! But it isn't magic

But as some reviewers have noted, the boosts from DLSS aren't always as impressive in real life as they are in marketing materials. And it's often less powerful systems—like gaming laptops—that see the most modest benefits. So, I decided to test it out myself.

Here are my Nvidia DLSS 4 results on a gaming laptop. Keep reading for the exact laptop I used and the various gains (or lack thereof) I saw in a handful of different high-profile games.

The laptop I used for these tests When Nvidia boasted about the awe-inspiring eight-fold improvement in Cyberpunk 2077 performance, those tests were done under ideal conditions. According to the fine print, it was achieved on a PC with an RTX 5090 at 4K resolutions with all the graphical bells and whistles turned on, and in DLSS performance mode.

But that's far from your typical gaming PC. Most modern gaming PCs are budget laptops—like the Lenovo LO


PC World Latest NewsOct 10, 2025
SSD acting weird? Do these 5 things ASAP before it dies

Sometimes you can notice the signs of a failing SSD. For instance, the once-quick transfer speed slows to crawl, there are frequent program or system crashes, or file system access errors or SMART errors occur. If you notice these things, especially in combination, there's a good chance your SSD is on its way out. In that case, it's time to prepare for the worst and do the following:

Back up critical files It goes without saying that the first thing you'll want to do if you think your SSD is on the blink is to back up your critical data. Backups should be done regularly anyway, but even if you're doing that, you'll still want to make a new backup of your critical files at this point to have them ready to go should your SSD suddenly die.

See our roundups of the best Windows backup software and

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