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Making these available for download indefinitely and without restriction is something we consider a risk to our customers, particularly in business environments. There’s also the technical and organizational overhead of maintaining and supporting old versions and their associated keys indefinitely. Although TreeSize says this is a long-standing policy, the backlash highlights the disconnect between what many people expect when buying a perpetual license and what they get when a software vendor shifts its business model toward subscriptions. “To make sure customers aren’t caught off guard, we proactively notify them by email, well before their maintenance ends, to back up their…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he will review the early prisoner release policy.Speaking to reporters in Bath, he said: “I can’t say that I can change the policy completely, but I will look at it in detail before we go further forward.”He acknowledged that there was “pressure on prisons places” and that a failure to invest in the prison system in the past had created “an unacceptable situation”.Tens of thousands of inmates have been let out of prison to create more space in jails since September 2024.His comments come after the mother of police officer Andrew Harper said the…

Fteri beach on Kefalonia, Greece. Miljko | Istock | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Yacht companies are offering discounts and special offers on charters in the Mediterranean this summer, as geopolitical conflicts cool demand.Summer charters in the Med are down 20% to 30% from last year, yacht brokers say, with a growing number of yachts offering special discounts for the rest of July and August. The softness has also led to more last-minute…

July 22 (Reuters) – on Wednesday raised its annual revenue forecast for the second quarter in a row, boosted by strong demand and rising order in its power unit. U.S. power consumption is forecast to rise in 2026 and 2027 as data center expansion and electrification drive demand, with commercial-sector demand expected to outpace residential this year. CEO Scott Strazik said the company expects to have at least 125 gigawatts of gas equipment under contract by the end of 2026 and remains on track to reach annual gas turbine output of 20 GW in the third quarter of 2026, rising…

Google announced a significant evolution of its AI models at I/O in May with the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash, and it’s not slowing down. The company revealed three new AI models today, including its first version of Gemini geared toward cybersecurity. However, none of the new models is the delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro, which was supposed to launch in June. Gemini 3.5 Flash, which was the star of the show at I/O, has already been deprecated. In its place, developers and users will find Gemini 3.6 Flash. Google makes the usual claims about this model—it’s marginally more capable and…

Andy Burnham has said he is not making an immediate “commitment” to changing the tax-free personal allowance but added that it could be considered at the Budget.The £12,570 threshold has been frozen since 2021, resulting in more people being dragged into paying income tax as earnings increase.Burnham told the Times over the weekend that the “frustration about the personal allowance” he had heard while campaigning in the Makerfield by-election was “lodged in my mind”.The prime minister then told reporters on Monday that “all of this will be looked at” in the next Budget but conceded any change would be expensive…

Capital One Financial on Tuesday evening reported second-quarter results that topped expectations on both the top and bottom lines. While the company’s business model transformation is testing our patience, the payoff could ultimately be worth the wait. Revenue in the second quarter ended June 30 increased 27% year over year to $15.85 billion, beating the $15.77 billion consensus estimate of analysts surveyed by LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increased 6% year over year to $5.81, beating the $4.75 estimate, LSEG data showed. COF YTD mountain Capital One YTD Capital One shares were relatively unchanged in after-hours trading at $206.…

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Some of those fees include future work that lawyers will do to distribute funds, and some authors argued that lawyers’ projections for time spent were alarmingly inflated. Acknowledging these concerns, Martínez-Olguín wrote in a footnote that the court decided to take “an additional step to protect the interests of the Class.” Once payouts have been finalized, lawyers will be required to file a post-distribution accounting, and if their fees are less, then the court “may reduce” them, Martínez-Olguín said. Although the settlement likely relieves the three authors who spent years defending their works and 506,194 works from potential class members,…

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).Eric Lee | Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCongressional Democrats are looking to close what they characterize as loopholes created by the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allow foreign entities to funnel money into U.S. elections.The bill, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and shared first with CNBC, would establish foreign ownership thresholds to determine which U.S. corporations should be barred from contributing to campaigns, ballot initiatives and referendums.”The Roberts Court’s reckless decision in Citizens United continues to spell disaster for American democracy,…