Starbucks Raise Number of Rewards Stars (Points) Needed for Basic Rewards the Grinch that Stole Valentine's Day
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Starbucks Raises Number of Reward Stars Points Needed for Rewards Just in Time for Valentine’s Day: Here are the New Requirements

Here are the new number of Starbucks reward points (stars) required for each Starbucks reward level. Starbucks, the Grinch that Stole Valentine’s Day, has just announced that it is raising the number of reward points that you need in the Starbucks app in order to be able to redeem your reward stars, effective February 13th, 2023. They are raising it for absolutely everything except the 25-star reward of customizing your drink.

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Netflix Rate Increase Goes into Effect – Here are the New Prices

If you have a Netflix account, you may have received an email from them much like the one below, advising you that the rate increase that they announced some time ago is about to go into effect. You may also recall that they actually raised their rates in 2014, but existing accounts were grandfathered in for as much as two years. Here are the new prices.

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Sudden Influx of Japanese Spam Following Japan Earthquake

There are reports of a huge increase in the amount of Japanese spam following the massive 9.0 earthquake, the aftershocks, and the tsunamis that battered Japan over the past weekend. There are several theories as to why the marked increase in spam from Japanese addresses and servers, ranging from “all hell breaking out” to “spammers, like cockroaches, can survive anything.”