When I first heard about the new Apple Upgrade program, which lets you lease devices like iPhones and MacBooks for a monthly fee, I was offended. It amounts to paying a tithe to one of the world’s richest companies just to borrow devices for a couple years, rather than buying them outright. You could then choose to purchase the device, which is outdated at that point, or upgrade and keep paying that monthly fee. You may never own an iPhone again.
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Then, as my mind wandered to the stack of old phones in my closet, it occurred to me: What’s so great about owning these things to begin with?
Apple, of course, would love to sell you a new iPhone for keeps. Its most advanced model, the iPhone 17 Pro Max, will set you back $1,200, a price that’s expected to rise soon due to the global shortage of storage and memory chips. You can sign up for an installment plan — most carriers offer these, as does Apple through its credit card — and pay it off in two to three years. Or you could lease the thing for $35 a month under the new Apple Upgrade program. You can pick a 12-, 24-, or 36-month lease, depending on the device, and you don’t get to keep the phone at the end of the term unless you decide to buy it by paying off the remainder of the retail price in one lump sum. (This is similar to the controversial rent-to-own model you find at places like Rent-a-Center.)
For the financial side of the new program, Apple has partnered with none other than Klarna, the “buy now, pay later” giant. When you go to lease a new device, Klarna runs a soft credit check and decides if you’ll be able to cover the monthly payments. When I asked Klarna, the company did not tell me where it draws the line here, but it’s worth noting that critics have accused Klarna of a lack of underwriting and of lending to people with subprime credit scores. If you miss three consecutive payments, Klarna will terminate the lease agreement and possibly send a collection agency after you.
“How do I know people aren’t getting a good deal here? If they were, Apple wouldn’t be offering it.”
— Aaron Perzanowski, University of Michigan law professor
While there was some speculation last week that Apple might lock people out of leased devices if they failed to pay their bill, Apple confirmed to me that it will not put limitations on device functionality due to missed payments or default. If you want to cancel the lease, you face an early termination fee. If you choose to keep paying the monthly fee, you can keep upgrading with new lease agreements for new devices every few years, existing in this cycle indefinitely.
“I don’t think people are getting a good deal here,” said Aaron Perzanowski, a law professor at the University of Michigan and author of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy. “How do I know people aren’t getting a good deal here? If they were, Apple wouldn’t be offering it.”
Buy an iPhone? In this economy?
If you’re someone who likes to get a new iPhone or MacBook on a regular basis, Apple’s new leasing option might make a lot of sense. The monthly fee to lease these devices is cheaper than the payment plan to buy them, and electronics are depreciating assets. If you own one, you can sell it or trade it in for credit toward a new device, but they’re all worth less and less as time goes on. Furthermore, Apple eventually stops supporting old devices through software updates, so they might just stop working at a certain point. Put another way: You may own the phone, but you’re still just licensing the software that makes it work.
Renting an iPhone does sound bleak, though. The United States is suffering through an affordability crisis as prices across the board rise in the face of new tariffs and new wars. Meanwhile, AI is promising to transform the way we work if it doesn’t simply steal our jobs first, adding further insecurity, and the data center boom is making electronics more expensive. This era of economic anxiety is pushing people to use “buy now, pay later” services like Klarna and Affirm to pay for groceries or a tank of gas. (These companies faced scrutiny by state attorneys general a few years ago for operating like predatory lenders.) And now Apple, surely suspecting that many people can’t afford to pay full price for new phones, is inviting us to rent our devices at a monthly fee that undercuts the path to ownership.
Apple could have just called this the Apple Rental program, by the way. Lease sounds nicer, though, like something you do with a car.
“It is funny that they frame it as not a loan but as a lease,” Louis Hyman, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. He added that “leasing” has class implications, suggesting that you’re either someone who needs to have the newest things but can’t afford them, or that you’re so wealthy, you’re indifferent to money.
Suffice it to say, the bulk of people who will soon be leasing their iPhones are probably not the ones who are indifferent to money.
Apple adopts its final form
The new Apple Upgrade program is the company’s latest customer acquisition strategy. As the rising price of hardware has made cheaper Android devices or the refurbished market more attractive, Apple is offering upgrade enthusiasts and budget-minded users, including people who simply couldn’t afford to buy Apple products in the past, a deal to join the company’s ecosystem. After all, keeping people supplied with new iPhones and MacBooks also helps keep them subscribed to Apple services, like iCloud, which now makes the company more money than Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and other accessories combined.
If Apple’s financial future hinges on getting more and more people to subscribe to these services, it’s only natural that the company would want to lower the barrier to entry. So Apple is betting that by letting people use but not own its products, it will extract more profit in the long run through lease payments and subscription fees. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that it seemed like nobody was interested in upgrading their iPhone, since the new phones looked so much like the old ones. Now, Apple is just trying to get everyone on autopay, effectively subscribing so that they get the latest devices when they come out.
There’s not necessarily any harm in giving people a cheaper way to access expensive but useful products. For more than a century, installment plans have enabled people to buy modern conveniences like sewing machines, radios, and eventually, televisions. Leasing is a popular way to keep yourself in a new car, sometimes with free maintenance. Meanwhile, cellular carriers have a long history of helping their customers buy phones. Nearly two decades ago, you could get an iPhone 3G for $199, thanks to subsidies from AT&T, which the company recouped in service fees over the course of your contract. Sprint and T-Mobile have even offered unlimited upgrades through leasing programs of their own in years past.
Apple previously worked with Citizen One Bank to offer loans to customers who wanted the option to upgrade their iPhones every year. The payments were higher and they included a fee for AppleCare, but every year, you could trade in your current phone for a new one. If you didn’t want to upgrade, you could simply keep paying the installments, and you’d eventually own the phone. Most carriers now give you the option to set up a payment plan to purchase a new device that simply amounts to the retail price of the gadget divided by the number of months you’ll need to pay it off, usually 24 or 36, with zero interest. That makes it easier to get your hands on an iPhone Pro Max, and if you pay it off in full, it’s yours for life — or until Apple convinces you to buy another new iPhone.
The difference between paying those monthly installments and paying a monthly lease agreement, of course, is that the former puts you on the path to ownership. The latter simply puts you on a path to make a decision: Do you want to buy the thing and recoup some of the money you’ve already spent, or do you want to keep making payments?
“What ownership ideally gets us is independence,” Perzanowski said. “It gives us autonomy. It gives us the ability to function in the world without relying on third parties.” He went on to explain how moving from owning a product to leasing it means you’re stuck with that third party. “I’m tied to that manufacturer in a way where they get to exert a fair amount of control over my behavior,” Perzanowski said. “Historically, we’ve been primed, especially in the United States, to resist and reject that kind of control.”
One great thing about owning an iPhone or a MacBook outright is that if you lose your job to AI, you don’t have to come up with a monthly payment in order to keep using those devices to apply for new jobs. Another great thing about ownership is that should you need a couple hundred bucks, you can sell that old phone or laptop and pocket the cash. Maybe the best thing about owning these devices is that you can repair them and keep using them for many years — or at least until Apple stops supporting them.
That doesn’t mean leasing never makes sense. If your digital life revolves around always having the newest devices and you upgrade every year or two no matter what, you might actually save money by doing so through Apple’s leasing program. If you need an iPhone or MacBook right away but can’t afford to pay full price or even cover the monthly payments on an installment plan, a one-year lease could be a good solution.
Invariably, when you lease anything, you’re entering into a contract, one that comes with consequences if you break it. Leasing an iPhone means you’re tied not only to Apple but also to Klarna for the next 12 to 36 months. If something goes wrong — you lose your job, you lose or break your phone, or you simply don’t want the device any more — you’re subject to the terms and conditions of these big tech companies. If you keep renewing your lease, you may very well end up spending more on a phone than you would have if you’d bought it outright. That would be fine with Apple, of course. It has shareholders to please.
Correction, July 30, 1 pm: This story originally misstated how the previous Apple upgrade loan program worked; it allowed phone trade-ins every year, not every two years.
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Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses, and billions could ride on the outcome
- Microsoft has won an extended stay at the Competition Appeal Tribunal while it seeks permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court, having lost at both the Tribunal and the Court of Appeal
- Its argument that Office’s icons and clip art placed it outside software exhaustion rules was rejected as producing “odd results”, including CD software being resellable while identical downloads were not
- The jurisdiction ruling matters more than the £270 million claim, as it clears the way for a parallel collective action that could expose Microsoft to billions
Microsoft has bought itself time in its long-running fight with a British software reseller, securing an extended stay of proceedings at the Competition Appeal Tribunal while it prepares to seek permission from the UK Supreme Court to appeal.
While Microsoft has yet to appeal formally, its indication that it intends to do so buys it some breathing room against a judgment that could mean that parallel proceedings, including a £3.5 billion class action lawsuit that could compromise as many as 2.7 million members, could become a centerpiece of the software giant’s future legal troubles in the UK.
The UK CAT (Competition Appeal Tribunal) has paused parts of the case as a result, and Chair Justin Turner KC noted that it was not yet known whether permission would be granted, and framed his decision as balancing the potential waste of costs if permission were granted and an appeal succeeded against the undesirability of delay in the proceedings.
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A legal quagmire exacerbated by shifting legal defense from Microsoft?
Microsoft has been fighting this claim for years, dating back to 2021, when JJH Enterprises, a Derby-based reseller trading as ValueLicensing, sued Microsoft for £270 million.
The allegation is that Microsoft wrote terms into its agreements that offered customers better subscription pricing in exchange for surrendering the right to resell their perpetual licenses, thereby choking off the secondary market and pushing buyers toward Microsoft 365 even as the software giant denies wrongdoing.
ValueLicensing’s case rests on the Court of Justice’s 2012 decision in UsedSoft v Oracle, which held that a software vendor’s distribution right is exhausted once it sells a perpetual license, including one delivered by download, so it cannot use copyright to block the onward sale of that copy.
Having contested the case as a competition matter for years, Microsoft changed its argument in 2025, recasting it as a copyright dispute. Office, it said, is not merely a computer program. It ships with icons, user interface elements, help files, and clip art, and those creative components should be governed by a different copyright regime in which exhaustion does not bite.
That argument has now failed twice. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) unanimously decided the preliminary copyright issues in ValueLicensing’s favor in November 2025, and on July 7, 2026, the Court of Appeal dismissed both of Microsoft’s appeals, one challenging the CAT’s jurisdiction to rule on copyright questions at all, the other contesting the copyright findings themselves.
Microsoft’s reading, the court observed, would produce “odd results”: software supplied on a CD-ROM could be freely resold while the identical software delivered as a download could not, and a vendor could defeat established exhaustion principles simply by bundling some icons with its code.
At the same time, the CAT did not grant resellers unlimited freedom. Under UsedSoft, a buyer holding a single copy installed on a server and licensed for several users cannot carve off part of that user capacity for resale, because exhaustion attaches to the copy rather than the seat.
The Tribunal distinguished that from a genuine volume arrangement comprising multiple independent copies or licenses, in which reselling a corresponding number may be permissible once the seller has stopped using the copies it has passed on. That distinction sets real limits on how the secondary market can operate.
Microsoft has spent most of the period covered by the claim moving its customer base from perpetual licenses to Microsoft 365. If ValueLicensing wins outright, it wins the right to trade in a category that its opponent has been deliberately retiring for a decade. Should the Supreme Court decline to take the case, proceedings return to the Tribunal, with a trial mooted for 2027.
The jurisdiction ruling matters well beyond this claim. By confirming that the CAT can decide copyright questions where they are necessary to resolve a competition case, the Court of Appeal cleared a path for others, and The Register reported in April 2026 that Microsoft had viewed that appeal as a complete answer to Alexander Wolfson’s collective action, on the basis that copyright issues could not be transferred to the High Court in a class action.
Wolfson was granted permission to intervene in support of ValueLicensing, and his claim, which could expose Microsoft to liability in the billions, now stands to benefit from the ruling.
What could this mean?
Britain’s regulators have taken an interest in the same broad shift, too. On July 29 2026, the Competition and Markets Authority opened a consumer protection investigation into how Microsoft marketed its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans.
From January 2025, existing subscribers were given Copilot and other new features at no extra cost for the remainder of their term, then automatically moved onto a higher-priced plan at renewal unless they chose an alternative or canceled.
A time-limited “Classic” plan preserved the old feature set at the old price, and for annual subscribers the Copilot version cost £25 more per year.
“When a business changes its subscription plans, customers need clear and timely information about their options,” said Hayley Fletcher, senior director for consumer protection at the CMA. “Our investigation will consider whether Microsoft customers were misled and ended up paying more as a result.”
Microsoft said consumer trust is a priority and that it is reviewing the claims while cooperating with the inquiry. The CMA has reached no conclusions and has not accused the company of breaking the law.
That probe concerns consumer subscriptions rather than the commercial agreements at issue in the ValueLicensing case, so the two are separate matters under different regimes. What links them is the same underlying transition from one-off purchases to recurring ones.
Microsoft already faces a CMA strategic market status investigation into its business software, and Australia’s competition regulator is suing the company in the Federal Court over the same Copilot and Classic plan issue, affecting an estimated 2.7 million customers. Whichever way the Supreme Court application goes, the legal scrutiny of how Microsoft moved the world onto subscriptions is not ending soon.
The scrutiny also lands in a fraught transatlantic moment. On July 24, days after the European Commission fined Google $1 billion under the Digital Markets Act, Trump announced a Section 301 investigation into EU trade practices, declaring that the United States is not a “PIGGYBANK” for Europe and promising a substantial tariff.
Brussels has consistently maintained that regulating economic activity within the bloc is its sovereign right, and that its digital rules apply to all firms operating there. Britain sits awkwardly beside that fight. Its courts are no longer bound by EU case law, and its regulators answer to nobody in Brussels, but the president’s stated targets have been digital taxes and digital markets rules in general rather than the EU alone, and the UK has both.
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Verdict
An excellent mid-range OLED from LG that delivers fantastically balanced and colour-rich picture quality. The sound system isn’t too bad either and it’s well stocked for features. This might end up being LG’s best OLED model of 2026
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Excellent picture
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Approachable interface
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Quick to assemble
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165Hz for PC gamers
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Impressive upscaling
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Need an LG account to access apps
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Bigger sizes offer brighter performance
Key Features
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Review Price:
£2999
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Hyper Radiant Colour Tech
Brighter, more colouful pictures
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VRR
Up to 165Hz with PC games
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AI
Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot
Introduction
LG’s C-series OLED has undergone some changes for 2026, which may or may not please some.
They’re still the mid-range model, sitting between the G-series and B-series, with six sizes ranging from 42- to 83-inches, but the 77- and 83-inches feature similar brightness-boosting technology that’s in the G-series model; the 55- and 65-inches – reviewed here – miss out on that boost.
They are brighter than their C5 predecessors, but not quite as bright as their bigger siblings, which may prove to be a little controversial, but the OLED65C6 makes a compelling argument that bigger might not be better when the performance is this good.
Design
- Quick to assemble
- Strong viewing angles
- Decent with reflections
The design for the 55- and 65-inch C-series models hasn’t changed dramatically, though I do like the marble-like material that’s on the back of the TV. You won’t see it for the vast majority of the TV’s lifespan, but it does look pretty.
There’s a wide stand to perch the TV on, though not too wide that you need a freakishly large piece of furniture to sit it on (I’m looking at you Sony).
Assembling the TV is fairly quick – around two minutes – and less time-consuming than adding the stand to the G6. The C6 is made to LG’s high standards: minimalist, well-packaged and good-looking, you can wall-mount but it will jut out from wall thanks to the little bump on the rear.
The OLED65C6 seems to use a similar anti-reflection solution as the G6 but does it reduce reflections? I’m not too convinced it does. In dark rooms I can clearly see what’s in the room, though it does refract ambient light sources without affecting black levels. There’s also a purple-ish hue to the screen when light shines on it, just like with the G6.
Viewing angles are massively wide if you’ve got family and friends over. The C6 keeps its colour and brightness at more acute angles and far away, though it’s not as bright as the G6.
Connectivity
- Four HDMI 2.1 inputs
- Plenty of wireless options
It does feel as if this section repeats previous years, but as is standard, there are four HDMI 2.1 inputs with HDMI 2 for plugging your soundbar into. All HDMI inputs support ALLM and the various forms of VRR too.
An Ethernet port offers the means to hardwire straight to your router if you find the Wi-Fi 6E connection flaky. There’s an optical audio output, two RF inputs, three USB 2.0 inputs and a CI slot.
Bluetooth 5.3 is supported, and Wi-Fi brings support for Google Cast and Apple’s AirPlay 2.
User Experience
- Slick and fast interface
- Some customisation possible
- Old LG remote
The webOS platform hasn’t changed much from previous years. You’ve got your Quick Cards made up of gaming, radio, art (you have to pay a subscription for complete access), and lifestyle apps. Portal is new, offering a mix of video content, trending news and podcasts.
There’s also LG’s Channels, its hub for free-to-view TV and on-demand content (through Rakuten TV) as a sort-of alternative to Freely. It’s got a decent selection of programming to watch, and logging into your account (more on that shortly) also means that if you quit a show or film, you can resume where you dropped off.
But that doesn’t mean the C6 ignores the UK catch-up apps, which are all present, and there’s the big global apps accounted for in the likes of Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV and HBO Max.
The problem here is that LG now requires you sign up to access any app, an annoying change from where you could access some apps without restrictions.
The interface itself is swift and responsive, and refrains from offering too much content for users to get lost and confuse in. The number of rows isn’t that much to scroll down, and content is easily highlighted. Yes there are ads but I don’t find them intrusive, and most of them are advertisements for LG products or popular TV series.
Swipe to the left and you’ll come across ‘My Page’, which offers personalised content. All of this is protected by LG Shield to keep your data safe, and the OLED65C6 will receive security updates until 2030.
The Magic Remote returns and it’s getting to the point where it’d be nice if we could get access to the USB-C remote available in other countries. It can’t cost too much to add, and while the Magic Remote is fine (I don’t get cranky about it), a rechargeable USB-C remote is better than one that runs on battery power.
Gaming
- Nvidia and AMD VRR
- Quick input lag
- Cloud gaming options
All HDMI 2.1 inputs support ALLM and VRR (Nvidia G-Sync, HDMI VRR and AMD FreeSync). Refresh rates have been boosted up to 165Hz for PC gaming.
Input lag stays the same at 12.9ms and Boost mode can bring it down to 9.4ms (same as before).
If you don’t have a console, the C6 supports plenty of cloud gaming options in the Xbox app, Blacknut, Amazon Luna, Boosteroid et al.
With the Game Optimiser menu you can change settings to alter the performance as you want. Want a black level performance that allows you see where others might be hiding? Some may call that cheating…
There’s HGiG, which are guidelines for optimal HDR performance, and there’s Dolby Vision Gaming support (4K/120Hz) for those of you with an Xbox Series console.
Features
- AI features
- Dolby Vision x Filmmaker mode
- FlexConnect support
LG’s Home Hub supports smart platforms such as its own ThinQ, Matter, Google and Apple Home. Voice control and search is possible through Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
There’s more AI with LG’s AI Concierge that provides personalised recommendations, with In This Scene offering insight into cast and crew of a film and programme (like Prime Video’s X-Ray feature). There’s also the option to create Generative AI images… if you’re interested.
The UK finally has the Voice ID feature that remembers your voice and can automatically log you into a profile when you press the AI button and speak.
On the picture and sound front, it’s all overseen by LG’s Alpha 11 AI Processor 4K Gen3 with Dual AI Engine that can improve brightness, upscale to 4K and produce a more 3D image in real-time. With audio it’s a 60W, 4.2 channel system with AI Object Remastering Ultra that brings clarity to vocals and can boost audio to 11.1.2 virtual channels of sound with Dolby Atmos.
There’s no DTS support, which is a shame, but there is Dolby Atmos FlexConnect if you buy LG’s Sound Suite audio system. On the HDR front there’s HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision and the Dolby Vision x Filmmaker Mode.
Picture Quality
- Bright, natural images
- Very good motion
- Good Vivid mode
It’s been a while since I last reviewed a 65-inch C-series model, but this year’s effort feels like a substantial step-up.
There’s still an issue with the Filmmaker x Dolby Vision mode in that it’s not adaptive by default, and even when I turn the feature on, it’s still not as balanced as it should be. I’d avoid using that HDR mode for now, but aside from that, the LG OLED65C6 is a stunner.
Dark detail is well handled so you’re seeing most of the detail in the darkest parts of the image (though I wouldn’t say all the detail is visible with a watch of Zero Dark Thirty).
Levels of detail and sharpness are excellent with Alien: Romulus, and colours strike me as looking close to what they should be.
Highlights are bright, contrast is very good (though the extra brightness of the G6 is even better) and there’s a three-dimensionality and sense of depth thanks to the TV’s processing that you don’t get from rivals. It may not be strictly natural but it’s a nice effect all the same.
A 4K Blu-ray of Speed Racer looks terrific with colours that are punchy, bright and wide-ranging – the TV explodes with colour with black levels that are substantial in terms of depth but not impenetrable.
An HLG stream of The Capture on iPlayer offers excellent levels of fine detail and sharpness – the show looks phenomenally good in 4K HDR with saturated colours and terrific detail to the point of being able to see the fuzz on someone’s jacket or the pores on someone’s skin. Complexions are both natural looking and balanced, highlights are bright but not overwhelming. It looks fantastic.
And the Vivid mode that worked so well on the G6 has been translated to the C6. With Cinderella, there’s a boost to colours and brightness, and the film still looks relatively balanced and natural. There were moments where that wasn’t the case – some noise here and there, and complexions that seem too hot – and it’s not as bright or as sharp as the G6, but colours take on a vivid and punchy look that’s among the best I’ve seen from any TV this year.
Motion is mostly excellent. Smooth and Natural (ironically) still produce judder, stutter and motion blurring; but Cinematic is best for a smooth look without issues, and if you go down the User route, in the region of 4/5 De Blur/De Judder seems the best fit.
Upscaling
- Sharp and detailed
- Colours look a little dark
The good times keep rolling when the OLED65C6 has to upscale films and TV series to 4K.
Whether it’s a DVD of Jaws or a Blu-ray of Succession, colours look natural. Detail levels are resolutely solid with HD content, while There Will Be Blood, Inglorious Basterds and Jaws on DVD exhibit some noise and lack of detail, that doesn’t derail the presentation as the C6 manages noise well, and ensures jagged edges don’t stick out.
You’ll only notice the lack of detail in wider shots or jagged subtitles, but in close ups of actors it comes up trumps despite the lower resolution.
The Kissed by Fire episode from Game of Thrones season three features colours that are well judged, though not the most spectacular with the action taking place north of the wall. But clarity and detail looks super, especially a shot of Jamie Lannister and his muddied face.
The same can be said with a Bu-ray of Tomorrowland. Bright, colourful but natural looking – picture-wise there doesn’t feel like there’s a weakness the TV has.
Sound Quality
- Punchy sense of bass
- AI Sound Pro mode
- Good with dialogue
I won’t hide that I was a little disappointed with the OLED65G6’s performance. However, I’d rate the C6’s built-in sound system as being better.
There’s a choice of two modes: Standard and AI Sound Pro. Standard is not as loud, as detailed or as sharp. It’s better for native stereo or mono content.
AI Sound Pro is for immersive audio. It’s sharper, louder, more detailed and outputs more energy through the TV’s 60W speaker.
I play my usual test discs starting with Civil War. Gunshots feature good detail and explosions have weight to them, though it’s not as powerful, detailed or carries as much heft as TVs from other brands I’ve tested in the past (notably Panasonic and Philips). It spreads its sound across the width of the screen and further, with sounds placed accurately on the screen where they originate from. There are times where I can hear dialogue beyond the width of the TV’s frame.
To my ears it sounds better at lower and higher volumes than the G6 did, and while it’s not the most exciting listen through the action scenes, it maintains a good hold on dialogue clarity throughout them.
With Dune the bass frequencies don’t feature much depth from the speakers. That’s not to say there isn’t bass present, but it’s not powerful and in some scenes there’s a little distortion with the bass.
With The Housemaid the C6 has a better handle on bass levels (when it needs to go deep, it struggles), but lows are clear and detailed; plus dialogue sounds natural.
Returning to Alien: Romulus and again, like the G6, it’s not the most dynamic and energetic performance, but the C6 sounds a bassier with the low frequencies. Dialogue is clear and sharp, highs are also clear, and soundstage is spacious. Aside from some slight distortion, this was better than I was expecting from the C-series.
I’d still recommend a soundbar, and LG’s own M7 is an expensive but good choice. Expect to see that review soon. Otherwise, there’s a few to choose from in our best soundbar and best Dolby Atmos soundbar guide.
Should you buy it?
Well-rounded midrange OLED TV
Great picture, better than expected sound and the usual competence when it comes to smarts and features. It’s hard to knock the OLED65C6.
The bigger models are brighter
We know LG wants to sell more big-screen TVs, but it feels a little controversial to deny the smaller sizes the brighter OLED panels.
Final Thoughts
The C6 is the best C-series model I’ve tested from LG. The picture is fabulous for the price, and yes, while you’re missing out on the increased brightness from the bigger sizes, it doesn’t feel like a massive miss given the quality present with the OLED65C6.
If you’re a gamer, it’s got what you need; it’s well stocked for entertainment options, there are plenty of smarts and sound system is better than expected. As an all-round package, the C6 has to rank as one of 2026’s best TVs.
How We Test
The 65-inch LG C6 OLED TV was tested for a month with real-world use and benchmark tests that included measuring brightness, input lag and using the Spears and Munsil Benchmark UHD disc to test viewing angles and colour accuracy.
- Tested with real world use
- Tested for a month
- Benchmarked with Spears and Munsil disc
Test Data
| LG OLED65C6 | |
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| Contrast ratio | Infinite |
| Input lag (ms) | 12.9 ms |
| Peak brightness (nits) 5% | 1360 nits |
| Peak brightness (nits) 2% | 1517 nits |
| Peak brightness (nits) 10% | 1510 nits |
| Peak brightness (nits) 100% | 238 nits |
| Set up TV (timed) | 120 Seconds |
Full Specs
| LG OLED65C6 Review | |
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| Manufacturer | LG |
| Screen Size | 64.5 inches |
| Size (Dimensions) | x x INCHES |
| Size (Dimensions without stand) | 826 x 1441 x 24.3 MM |
| Weight | 17.4 G |
| Operating System | webOS |
| Release Date | 2026 |
| Resolution | 3840 x 2160 |
| HDR | Yes |
| Types of HDR | HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision, Filmmaker Mode |
| Refresh Rate TVs | 50 – 165 Hz |
| Ports | Four HDMI 2.1, Digital Optical Audio Out, Three USB 2.0, CI slot, Two RF, Ethernet |
| HDMI (2.1) | eARC, ALLM, VRR, 4K/120Hz, QMS, QFT |
| Audio (Power output) | 60 W |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Google Cast, AirPlay 2 |
| Display Technology | OLED |
| UK RRP | £2999 |
| USA RRP | $2699 |
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A bipartisan roster of former top-level FCC officials have submitted a filing to the Trump FCC blasting the agency’s ongoing violations of the First Amendment and urging it to terminate its phony “investigations” into ABC — including the unprecedented early ownership review of the company’s broadcast licenses.
In the filing, former FCC officials allied under the banner of the Protect Democracy Project outline how the early “ownership review” of ABC’s eight broadcast licenses is really just a pretense to punish ABC and Disney for broadcasting speech the Trump administration doesn’t like, the coalition calling it “a grave violation of both the Communications Act and the Constitution.”
A companion announcement features numerous FCC officials lining up to express their disgust at Brendan Carr and his often-illegal assault on the First Amendment.
“Chairman Carr seems to be laboring under the ill-conceived notion that broadcasters have only partial
rights to free speech under the First Amendment,” said Mark Fowler, a Republican who served as
Chairman of the FCC from 1981 to 1987. “Just because the FCC issues licenses doesn’t make it the
speech police. With this senseless early renewal proceeding, Carr is demonstrating that he has
completely lost touch not just with the role of the FCC, but also with his own job description.”
Earlier this year, Trump Republicans were upset that The View hosted Texas Democratic hopeful James Talarico. That triggered an entire fake “investigation” and a threatened revocation of ABC’s broadcast licenses by Carr, who falsely claimed the show had violated the FCC’s dated and irrelevant “equal time” rule requiring that TV stations give equal time to political candidates from both parties.
It apparently didn’t matter that Carr’s threats were empty, that any legal case would be laughed out of court on First Amendment grounds, that Carr actively avoids enforcing such laws for right wing radio, that Carr had worked with Trump-friendly broadcasters to concoct a conspiracy to make ABC look guilty, or that The View had clearly been exempt from the FCC’s “equal time” rules since 2002.
The FCC has been engaged in several other simultaneous phony investigations of ABC, hoping to punish the company for journalism and comedy critical of the president. The efforts are legally unsupportable assaults on free speech and the First Amendment designed not really to go to court, but to signal to media companies that there are costly legal headaches in store if they joke about, criticize, or simply just platform journalism that’s honest about Trump.
Several of the same former FCC officials participating in this coalition filed a petition with the FCC late last year, urging it to rescind the agency’s news distortion policy, a tool Chairman Carr has abused to try and trample free speech and journalistic freedom.
“This proceeding is an effort to punish ABC and Disney for poorly disguised political reasons,” said
Rachelle Chong, a Republican who served as Commissioner of the FCC from 1994 to 1997. “The early
review and the allegations are unusual in a typical FCC license review which suggests it is more about a
desire to silence speech.”
While the effectiveness of these threats have waned in parallel with Trump’s sagging health and political power; they’ve still been embarrassingly effective at times. The View, for example, has shied away from hosting any politicians at all to avoid further agitating the kakistocracy. And ABC in late 2024 paid Trump $15 million to settle a baseless lawsuit the company would have likely won.
This latest filing was signed by other former FCC officials including Kathryn C. Brown, Rachelle B. Chong, Jerald N. Fritz, Rosemary Harold, William T. Lake, Ruth Milkman, Dennis R. Patrick, Peter Pitsch, Alfred C. Sikes, Gloria Tristani, Tom Wheeler, and Christopher J. Wright.
The filing and complaint are curiously lacking in statements from Democrats, who have been a feckless no show when it comes to competent media reform for the better part of a quarter century. At the same time, many Republicans who have proven solid on free speech issues during authoritarianism, have quietly supported the administration’s assault on the regulatory state and what’s left of competent corporate oversight, the impact of which will have very different, but very fatal, reverberations for decades.
A broad array of other Republican-leaning groups, including the Center for Individual Freedom, Citizens Against Government Waste, and Americans for Tax Reform, also filed complaints this week at the FCC over its ongoing harassment of ABC, showing just how ideologically alone Brendan Carr has become as he wages a sad and desperate war on the First Amendment at the behest of a bumbling tyrant.
Filed Under: bipartisan, brendan carr, censorship, comedy, fcc, first amendment, free speech, journalism
Companies: abc, disney
Samsung has largely stuck with traditional designs for its Galaxy Buds lineup over the years, with the bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live standing out as the one truly radical departure. But that appears to be changing, as Samsung experiments with designs its rivals have embraced for years. Just a day after leaked renders offered an early look at the clip-on Galaxy Buds On, a new leak has shed light on another upcoming pair of Galaxy Buds targeted at gym-goers and athletes.
A design built for movement
According to SamMobile, Samsung is working on another pair of buds internally codenamed “Buds Canal 5.” Leaked renders suggest that they may be aimed squarely at users who want earbuds for workouts and running rather than everyday listening.
The renders show flat ear hooks paired with an ear tip that sits in the ear canal, a layout previously seen in countless other fitness-focused earbuds already on the market. It’s not immediately clear if the tips form a full in-ear seal for stronger noise isolation or a half in-ear fit that trades isolation for a more open, breathable feel.
Either way, the hook itself is the highlighting feature. It’ll help keep the earbuds in place during physical activity, something no other earbuds in Samsung’s current lineup are really designed to do. The leak doesn’t reveal any details beyond the design, so it’s unclear whether Samsung plans to include features like active noise cancellation or a dust and water resistance rating.
Why a workout-specific design makes sense
Samsung’s current earbuds catalog sticks to one traditional stem-based design, be it with silicone tips, like the Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, or without them, like the regular Buds 4. With the upcoming Galaxy Buds On, Samsung will cater to buyers who prefer awareness over isolation, leaving a gap for those wanting a pair of earbuds that won’t fall out when they go for a jog or to the gym.
The ear hook design will fill that gap and help Samsung better compete with other brands in that segment. If you’ve been holding out for Samsung earbuds that won’t fall out mid-run, this is worth keeping an eye on. Just don’t expect an announcement anytime soon. Samsung hasn’t made anything official, and there’s still no word on specifications, pricing, or even what they’ll ultimately be called.
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HOVERAir Versa Combines Pocket Camera and Drone Into One Device, Goes From Hand to Sky in Seconds
HOVERAir just revealed Versa, a camera that lives in two worlds at once. Hold it and you get a compact, three-axis stabilized shooter small enough for a pocket. Snap on a set of protected wings and the same module lifts off, follows you, and films from the air without a controller or any flying skill.
In the hand, it functions similarly to handheld gimbal cameras that content creators are already accustomed with. You have a built-in screen to preview and check your shots right there on the spot. The 3-axis gimbal keeps motion smooth whether you’re walking, sprinting, or simply turning, and it’s really useful. Their papers indicate that the image processor is well-tuned for recording strong dynamic range, which should result in clean colors in bright city streets, deep shadows, and even decent low-light performance after the sun begins to set. For the time being, the exact sensor size and resolution remain unknown.
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The real magic happens when you transform it. You can quickly and easily attach the camera module to a flyable frame in one motion. The propellers are carefully stored in protective cages, as they have been with previous models. Once attached, the device transforms into a completely autonomous camera capable of taking off from your palm and flying away on its own. On-board systems take over, including an AI tracking engine that keeps your subject right in the middle of the frame. You get a variety of automated cinematic moves, like follow, orbit, zoom out, bird’s eye view, and many more that fans of their past cameras will recognize and enjoy.
There is no need for a remote or even a practice session because the system will just pick up the person in front of it and follow the chosen course on autopilot. When it’s finished, it gently flies back into your waiting hand. The module can then be removed and used as a standard handheld camera with no difficulty. However, one notable mode goes above and beyond. In 3D Worlds, the camera whizzes around the environment in a precise 360-degree circuit, taking a series of stills and stitching them together into a 3D model that you can flip around on your phone or computer to share. HOVERAir explains that because this technology relies on image stitching rather than fancy laser scanning, it is now best suited to interior or small outdoor locations.
AI even joins in on the fun when it comes to composition, as the system scans the environment, offers a better location for the camera, and then applies an intelligent crop after the shot is locked in. The goal is to get professional-level framing without the hassle. HOVERAir spent years honing the concept of a self-flying camera, beginning with the original Hover Camera, progressing to the X1 series, which included palm launches and auto-tracking, and the waterproof Aqua for aquatic activities. Versa just takes that and folds the handheld and airborne responsibilities into a single gadget. Earlier models stayed under the 250g mark, avoiding all those bothersome registration regulations in many countries; whether Versa will be able to follow suit will be determined once the exact specs are released.
Price and availability are currently unknown. The company is still gathering interest on its website and promises to provide more technical information soon. Until then, it’s clear to see what’s in store: a single little camera that you can hold in your hand for everyday videos or leave on the ground and film from the air as needed.
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Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Anthropic has admitted that its Claude models escaped sandboxes to access the open internet and attack three organizations – but has also advanced decent excuses for the incidents.
The AI upstart discovered the attacks after checking if security tests of its models had ever produced results similar to the attack on Hugging Face made possible by OpenAI models escaping onto the internet.
“In particular, we looked for evidence that Claude – like the OpenAI models that accessed Hugging Face – was able to access the internet from within testing environments that should have been sealed off,” Anthropic wrote.
The company considered 141,006 evaluation runs during which Claude could have obtained internet access and found “three incidents in which a model accessed the internet from within or while interacting with the evaluation environment of Irregular, one of our third-party evaluation partners, and then gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three different organizations.”
Anthropic’s code made those intrusions while participating in capture-the-flag challenges, tests that challenge attackers to retrieve a piece of information. Human hackers often participate in capture-the-flag tests, so figuring out how AI tackles such tasks is of interest. Anthropic works with a company called Irregular to conduct tests of this sort.
Irregular told Anthropic its test environments did not allow internet access.
“Due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner, this was not the case, and internet access was available,” wrote Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team in a Thursday blog post. “Because of this, when Claude’s search led it to real systems on the open internet, it treated them as part of the exercise.”
One of the attacks targeted a domain that whoever set up the test thought was fictional. However the domain was live and in use. Told to capture a flag at that site, Claude attacked.
Anthropic says its models used only “basic techniques, such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints” to attack. “It did not find or exploit any complex vulnerabilities, and in each case, Claude continued working to complete only the specific capture-the-flag task its evaluation had assigned,” the AI upstart claimed.
“In none of these situations did Claude exfiltrate itself or deliberately attempt to escape its test environment,” Anthropic pointed out.
But Claude was still fiendishly clever as in another of its attacks the AI found setup instructions for developers that advised them to install a Python package from PyPI. That package did not exist so Claude’s strategy to capture the flag saw it create and publish a malicious one with the relevant name.
“Claude believed the package registry it was using to be part of the simulation, but in reality the package was made freely available online for roughly one hour. During that window, the package was downloaded and run on 15 real systems,” Anthropic admitted.
Claude also eventually realized it could access the open internet despite instructions not to go there. Opus 4.7, the oldest Anthropic model used in the test, kept going regardless.
“Mythos 5 correctly intuited that it was accessing the open internet, but reasoned its way back to the conclusion that it was still in a simulation,” Anthropic wrote. “Our latest model, an internal research test model, also considered whether its targets were in fact real. When evidence emerged that they were, it stopped the exercise.”
Anthropic’s post offers the usual pledges to be more careful when setting up future tests, and to make sure its models can’t make the mistakes that allowed the attacks to happen.
But the company has also given itself a pass, claiming that the safeguards in the models it sells “would have blocked the behaviors identified.”
“We believe these incidents to be closer to a harness and operational failure than a model alignment failure,” the post states, and contrasts that assessment with a more damning assessment of OpenAI’s incident. “Our models were told they had no internet access and to capture the flag, while in fact being misconfigured to have internet access. This led them to believe – arguably reasonably – that the real environments they encountered were simulations.”
“These facts give us cautious optimism that with tighter monitoring and controls around evaluation infrastructure, as well as continued investment in alignment, this type of risk can be overcome,” the post concludes.
This leaves one of the world’s leading AI labs admitting it has acted carelessly when constructing tests, and caused harm, but also claiming it can make future tests foolproof. ®
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Judge: DOJ Undid Its Attempt To Bully Portland Police Because AG Harmeet Dhillon Tweeted Thru It
from the every-button-a-self-destruct-button dept
There are several layers of bullshit in operation here, so we’ll walk through it all. But keep in mind the only reason this is all being exposed is because Trump administration officials feel they’re more obligated to “own the libs” than actually do their damn jobs.
Last October, “conservative influencer” Nick Sortor was arrested by Portland (Oregon) police after an altercation with anti-ICE protesters. Sortor received preferential treatment from the Trump administration. He was allowed to stand on the roof of the ICE detention center and film protesters during then-DHS head Kristi Noem’s visit to the site.
The DOJ decided to intervene on Sortor’s behalf. It went after the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), demanding it turn over thousands of documents it claimed were evidence of the PPB’s desire to punish certain people for certain kinds of speech.
To do this, it cited a DOJ settlement reached with the PPB back in 2013 — one that said nothing about any PPB attempts to shut down speech the PPB didn’t like. The paragraph cited in its demand for documents said this:
Too frequently, persons who have or are perceived to have mental illness and are in crisis are subjected to unnecessary or excessive force by police officers. The Portland Police Bureau lacks adequate policies to guide officers in these circumstances, or training, supervision and accountability measures necessary to ensure that officers comply with the constitutional rights of people in mental health crisis.
That’s the first layer of bullshit. The DOJ isn’t going after the PPB because it has any genuine concerns about its treatment of people with mental health issues. It’s going after the PPB because it arrested one of theirs and is located in a “liberal” city this administration desires to punish however it can, whenever it can.
The next layer of bullshit is the DOJ pretending any previous settlement over excessive force by local law enforcement is worthy of recognizing. Since Trump’s return to office, the DOJ Civil Rights Division solely exists to further the goals of the administration’s white Christian nationalists. It has already made moves to dissolve or suspend court-ordered consent decrees affecting local law enforcement agencies successfully sued/investigated for pattern-and-practice rights violations because it feels law enforcement shouldn’t have to answer to anyone.
So, it’s entirely hypocritical for this administration to cite a consent decree it would have sought to have removed if it affected a Red State agency in hopes of punishing Portland and its police department for anti-ICE protests.
The government claimed the settlement entitled it to whatever documents it wanted from the PPB. But Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon decided to shit the bed by being exactly the sort of person you’d expect her to be, given her subservience to Donald Trump. From the ruling [PDF] handed down by federal judge Michael Simon rejecting the government’s bad faith effort to leverage a PPB civil rights settlement for its own vindictive purposes (h/t Gabriel Malor):
On October 3, 2025, the same day that Judge Immergut was holding the hearing on the motion for temporary restraining order requested by the State of Oregon and the City, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, Ms. Harmeet Dhillon, publicly stated that DOJ would conduct a “full investigation” of policing of the protests at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) facility in Portland, Oregon.
She announced this by reposting a social media post from social media personality Nick Sortor, who wrote: “BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has ORDERED a full investigation, led by Asst. AG Harmeet Dhillon, of the Portland Police Bureau, following my wrongful arrest last night, Bondi confirmed to me. FAFO, @PortlandPolice….” Assistant Attorney General Dhillon also attached to her repost her own comment, which read: “Portland: It’s FO time. Buckle up.” Id. (emphasis added).
This gloating has turned out to be premature. The court says the administration has presented no evidence the PPB is failing to follow the terms of the 2013 settlement. Furthermore, that settlement was tied to the abuse of people with mental health illnesses. There were no allegations in the settlement that the PPB regularly punished people for engaging in protected speech.
This is the first of three indications the government has “unclean hands.” This is a legal term of art that basically means the government’s intentions are impure and enough impurity is on the public record to support this finding. Part of that is Dhillon’s tweet above, which makes it clear the targeting of the PPB was directly related to the arrest of Nick Sortor, rather than anything the administration claimed in its legal filings.
As the court notes here, the government is cheating when it uses a completely unrelated enforcement effort in order to induce compliance.
[T]he United States asserts that it is purporting to investigate whether the Portland Police Bureau has engaged in political viewpoint discrimination in violation of the Agreement in this case. This case, however, has never been about viewpoint discrimination, or even any issues arising under the First Amendment.
Second, there’s the timing. This action was pursued by the administration only after it was sued by the city and state over its commandeering of Oregon’s National Guard units.
Finally, there’s Dhillon’s tweet, which can’t even be charitably be referred to as “ill-advised.”
As noted, Assistant Attorney General Dhillon preceded her reposting of a Nick Sortor comment with Dhillon’s own comment: “Portland: It’s FO time. Buckle up.” (emphasis added). That is neither language nor tone of a good faith investigation by the United States Department of Justice. Instead, it exhibits all the hallmarks of a threat and attempted intimidation.
And that’s not even the totality of the intimidation tactics engaged in by AAG Dhillon. A footnote points out Dhillon also decided to tweet out a threat targeting the judge that had originally blocked the government from obtaining these documents from the PPB.
In addition, on the same day that Judge Immergut issued her temporary restraining order, relying in part on the testimony of two high-ranking officials from the Portland Police Bureau, Assistant Attorney General Dhillon reposted a comment from another social media personality that read, in part, “Judge Immergut must be impeached.” (emphasis added). This too is threatening conduct by Assistant Attorney General Dhillon.
This is not how a federal agency — especially the one expected to fight for justice, rather than just act like extensions of Trump’s id — is supposed to behave. But Trump himself expressly encourages this behavior and anyone with the least bit of personal/professional restraint has likely been fired and replaced by brainstem operators like AAG Dhillon.
What this means is that the courts no longer trust the DOJ, which makes it all the more difficult for it to secure the wins Trump demands from his underlings. This is a blueprint for perpetual failure. Unfortunately, no one in the administration is willing to learn anything from these experiences because doing so just means educating yourself out of a job.
Filed Under: dhs, doj, harmeet dhillon, ice, nick sortor, portland, trump administration
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Surveillance cameras owned by Flock Safety have been cut down with electric saws in New York State, vandalized with paint in Oakland, California, and rammed with a truck in Idaho. Flock claims its services fight crime, but law enforcement agencies also use their services to track vehicles based on license plate numbers and reconstruct the their movements, even when the drivers and owners of these vehicles have never been accused or convicted of any crime. (Flock states it has 120,000 automated cameras that record license plate data, as well as pan-tilt-zoom cameras, across the United States.)
A guerilla mindset among average citizens have seen these cameras forcibly disabled within recent weeks with sympathy directed toward the vigilantes. In June, a West Virginia man accused of destroying several Flock cameras was arrested. Under a Facebook post from the local NBC affiliate announcing his arrest are dozens of people volunteering to provide alibis. “He was out fishing with me that day, you got the wrong guy,” one man wrote.
Founded in 2007, Alo Yoga (short for ‘Air, Land, and Ocean’) started as a yoga brand, but somewhere along the way, it became the model off-duty uniform. The brand’s rise was helped along by its celebrity fan club: Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber, and basically every supermodel whose workout fit has made us question our entire wardrobe. What began with buttery-soft leggings and yoga pants has expanded into a lifestyle empire, with travelwear, wellness supplements, and even a collection of luxury Alo bags.
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