If you bought a new iPhone from 2024 to 2025, you will be eligible for a $50-$95 payment.
Announcing this now because the deadline will be extremely short, only 90 days after the classaction is settled
Ok, I don't want to be the overdramatic guy who stresses everyone out, but the ocean is losing its oxygen as we speak. The same oxygen that keeps millions of ecosystems alive by providing them with resources and allowing marine life to thrive.
Also, this doesn't happen uniformly across all areas. It happens more intensely in targeted areas where oxygen levels can already be lower than elsewhere, causing major damage in these regions and putting various species of fish and marine life under serious stress.
I think this only shows that the scariest part of global warming is all the side effects it has across parts of our environment we wouldn't necessarily think about directly.
Whether it's the loss of oxygen in the water, coral death, rising sea levels, etc., climate change is affecting our planet in ways that go far beyond just making temperatures warmer.
Why is this barely getting any news coverage??
I've planted like 10 Trees while doing my work using Ecogpt. This makes me so much happy.
Google and YouTube have agreed to pay $7.5M to settle claims they violated California's Automatic Renewal Law by charging users on YouTube TV autorenewal without proper disclosure or consent.
If you're a California resident who paid for at least one YouTube TV renewal (via YouTube billing, not the iOS App Store) between Feb 1, 2017 and Oct 29, 2021, you could be eligible for a payout.
Payments are pro rata split based on the total number of valid claims filed. Best estimate is: ~$92.26 per claimant. Could be higher or lower depending on how many people file.
Deadline to file: August 30, 2026
File online using the login ID/PIN from your settlement notice.
Qwen3.8-27B just dropped:
27B params, beats Qwen3.7-Plus overall. native multimodal, built for real coding + office work.
262K context out the box, scales to 1M with YaRN.
apache 2.0 licensed
source - github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness
I’ve been following some AI tools that are approaching their environmental impact, and the EcoGPT vs ChatGPTree comparison is pretty interesting.
On the infrastructure side:
EcoGPT uses a smaller open-source mixture-of-experts model with 10x+ fewer active parameters, along with caching and cleaner-grid infrastructure. It also focuses on reducing water usage through cooler-climate data centers and less computation.
ChatGPTree runs on GPT-4o and uses whatever infrastructure OpenAI operates, without making specific claims around reducing computation, water usage, or choosing cleaner grids.
Trees funding numbers:
EcoGPT: 163,386 trees
ChatGPTree: 3,950 trees
Their funding models:
EcoGPT publishes dated certificates from its planting partners, while ChatGPTree uses a cumulative counter and monthly emails for paying users.
this is interesting to understand how the model is built, where the compute runs, how water is addressed, and how the environmental claims are actually verified.
Chatgpt alternatives i've been testing in 2026, from actually using them:
what's actually replaced chatgpt for your daily use?
fandango is paying out over hidden ticket fees no receipt needed to file.
you qualify if you bought a movie ticket through fandango for a california theater between june 11, 2020 and june 17, 2024, or you're a california/washington resident who bought a fandango fanclub membership between oct. 7, 2024 and april 16, 2025.
deadline august 17, 2026.
payouts: convenience fee claimants can choose a $3.25 cash payment instead of the default $3.25 voucher you'll need the unique ID and confirmation code from your settlement email. fanclub members get a $7.50 voucher automatically, no claim needed. if you qualify for both, you can stack them.
I've filed multiple class actions in the past year & this year as well. There are couple of Apps that comes everytime I ask for the classaction link or the payment proof. Among them one is Claim Money.
is it actually legit? I looked and it's a paid subscription, not free, and I can't tell if I'm paying for something I could just find myself on the usual settlement sites.
has anyone actually used it and gotten a payout? worth the subscription or should I stick to tracking these down manually?
first round was back in sept 2025, second round (the bonus payout) came through recently. between both rounds i got $62 in total
I almost forgot about it. but was finding a mail & came across this.
I love the ones that are grammatically fine but ambush your brain on the first pass the linguistics term is "garden-path sentences", where you get led one direction and then the sentence yanks the rug out.
The classic is "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." Your brain parses the first half one way, then the second half forces you to completely re-read "fruit flies" as a noun.
They're a great reminder that a sentence can be 100% correct and still momentarily unreadable, which feels relevant to anyone learning English and quietly panicking that they're the problem. You're not the sentence is designed to trip you.
I live in my hometown in Georgia, and we've had a constant whirring noise all around the
neighborhood ever since an AI data center was built next to our community a couple of months ago.
It almost sounds as loud as a truck passing next to your house at every single moment of the day.
Also, the city has started asking us to take shorter showers. Am I the only one who thinks this is
absolutely ridiculous?
I'd love to see Sam Altman live here for even one day. He'd go crazy
Esse Health is paying out $2.53M over a patient data breach no receipt needed to file.
claim: Esse Health got hacked in April 2025, and names, Social Security numbers, health info, and insurance details for over 521,000 patients got exposed.
you qualify if you're someone Esse Health notified that your info was potentially compromised in the breach. no proof needed for the cash payment.
File before august 4, 2026.
payouts are pro rata estimates. you can expect around $50 per person, but it could land higher or lower depending on how many people file nothing's guaranteed until after the deadline. you also get two years of medical identity monitoring (with $1M theft insurance) free, paid separately by Esse Health, whether or not you file for cash.
google is paying out $68M over Assistant recordings no receipt needed to file.
claim: Google Assistant sometimes recorded people without a "hey google" trigger, and some of those recordings got sent to third-party reviewers. google hasn't admitted fault but settled anyway.
you qualify if you're a US resident who, between may 18, 2016 and march 19, 2026, bought a Google Home, Nest, or Pixel device, or used Google Assistant at all. no proof needed for the basic privacy claim.
File before august 27, 2026.
payouts are pro rata estimates. you can expect $2–$10 for privacy claims, $18–$56 for device owners, but nothing's guaranteed until after the deadline.
