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Companies join hands to collectively dunk on PlayStation's all-digital future — Domino's pizza, KFC, and GameSir all threaten an end to physical production (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: account, chicken, controller

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Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-03 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, digital

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PlayStation just struck a hammer blow to game preservation (engadget.com)

2026-07-03 | by Kris Holt | tags: playstation, sony, ps5

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, July 3 (cnet.com)

2026-07-03 | by See Full Bio | tags: cnet, gael cooper, pudding pops

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24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: xiph.org, neil young, apple

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24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: xiph.org, neil young, apple

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Game Discs Deserve to Die (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: game discs, digital future, consumer-friendly

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Digital archivists rush to save PS3 game data before Sony shuts down the store forever in 2027 — RPCS3 emulator urges users to preserve all content (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: digital, future, game

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Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: typography, arabic script, font rendering

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I Tried Rips, the Card-Pack App Where Users Spend Thousands Chasing Pricey Pokémon (wired.com)

2026-07-02 | by Reece Rogers | tags: rips, pokemon cards, apptopia

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AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi (theverge.com)

2026-07-02 | by Nilay Patel | tags: publicis, digitas, cannes lions

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As Sony exits physical media, Microsoft is testing a way to link your Xbox discs to digital licenses (techspot.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: sony, microsoft, xbox

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, July 2 (cnet.com)

2026-07-02 | by See Full Bio | tags: cnet, gael cooper, pudding pops

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Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | by Alan Stapelberg | tags: zero-knowledge proof, sparkasse, eidas regulation

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Xbox Experiment Could Accelerate the End of Physical Game Discs (cnet.com)

2026-07-01 | by See Full Bio | tags: playstation, xbox series, microsoft

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Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-01 | by Andrew E. Freedman | tags: xbox, disc2digital, xbox series x

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Sony announces end of PlayStation discs, parts of digital store in the same day (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: playstation store, sony digital audio disc corporation, physical discs

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Sony PlayStation Will Stop Releasing Games On Discs In 2028 (slashdot.org)

2026-07-01 | tags: playstation, sony, grand theft auto

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Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin (wired.com)

2026-07-01 | by Matt Kamen | tags: playstation, sony interactive entertainment, physical media

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Apple TV teases major new sci-fi series: Neuromancer (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-01 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: apple tv, neuromancer, william gibson

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Rubin Observatory Begins Its 10-Year Survey of the Universe (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: rubin observatory, digital camera, universe survey

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Trump raked in nearly $1.2 billion from crypto in 2025, a federal filing shows (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: crypto, world liberty financial, cic digital

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PlayStation will end physical disc production for new games in 2028 (cnbc.com)

2026-07-01 | by Cj Haddad | tags: playstation, sony, playstation store

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Sony is officially killing off physical PlayStation games (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: playstation, sony, android authority

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Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection (theverge.com)

2026-07-01 | by Tom Warren | tags: xbox, microsoft, disc-to-digital

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iPhone 18 Pro to offer only these three colors, per leaker (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-01 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple, sonny dickson

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Sony will stop making disc-based PlayStation games starting 2028 (engadget.com)

2026-07-01 | by Matt Tate | tags: playstation, ps5 pro, sony

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PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028 (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-01 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: playstation, sony interactive entertainment, grand theft auto vi

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Safe Events Start With Threat Intel & Digital Security (darkreading.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: threat intel, digital security, cyber threats

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Safe Events Start With Threat Intel and Digital Security (darkreading.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: threat intel, digital security, cyber threats