eBay Dumps American Express Over Swipe Fees American Express cardholders will soon need a different credit card when shopping with eBay. Here's how to prepare. 06/6/2024 - 11:11 am | View Link
Maine’s tourism industry needs protection from credit card swipe fees "These fees amount to nearly $340 million every year getting sucked out of Maine's local economy and sent to Wall Street giants." ... 06/6/2024 - 5:36 am | View Link
Average Credit Card Processing Fees and Costs in 2024 Some businesses also charge a credit card convenience fee (or offer a cash discount) to cover the cost of the processing fees above. Some retailers have opted to tack a surcharge onto purchases made ... 06/5/2024 - 4:49 am | View Link
Illinois consumers may have to ‘swipe twice’ when paying with credit card If Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the budget and revenue package legislators approved, consumers paying by card may have to swipe to pay for their goods and swipe again to pay the sales tax for those goods. 06/4/2024 - 9:25 am | View Link
Judges did not ‘rubberstamp’ fees in $2.7 bln Blue Cross deal, US Supreme Court told A U.S. appeals court did not “rubberstamp” a $667 million fee award for the attorneys behind a $2.7 billion antitrust class action settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield, the class lawyers told the U. 05/30/2024 - 11:33 am | View Link
Enlarge / An artist's concept of a Mars Ascent Vehicle orbiting the red planet. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth.
The space agency put out a call to industry in April to propose ideas on how to return the Mars rocks to Earth for less than $11 billion and before 2040, the cost and schedule for NASA's existing plan for Mars Sample Return (MSR).
Enlarge / A Diamond Shruumz chocolate bar, which come in a variety of flavors. (credit: diamondshruumz.com)
Various federal and state health officials are sounding the alarm on Diamond Shruumz-brand Microdosing Chocolate Bars. The candy, said to be infused with mushrooms, has been linked to severe illnesses, including seizures, loss of consciousness, confusion, sleepiness, agitation, abnormal heart rates, hyper/hypotension, nausea, and vomiting, according to an outbreak alert released by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
So far, eight people across four states have been sickened—four in Arizona, two in Indiana, one in Nevada, and one in Pennsylvania, the FDA reported.
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A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security researchers warned as they urged those affected to take action before the weekend starts.
Within 24 hours of the vulnerability and accompanying patch being published, researchers from the nonprofit security organization Shadowserver reported Internet scans designed to identify servers that are susceptible to attacks.