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Sony has begun notifying PlayStation users that more than 550 movies and TV shows they paid for will disappear from their video libraries on September 1, 2026. The reason? A licensing agreement with StudioCanal has expired. No refunds. No replacements. Just gone. The Kotaku report laid it out plainly. Affected titles include Terminator 2, Total

San Francisco has long stood as the epicenter of technology compensation. Yet fresh data and worker accounts show that benchmark six-figure packages once viewed as ample now buckle under the weight of surging housing costs and a new tier of AI-driven riches. Katrine Razniak arrived in the city in 2022 as a recruiter at LinkedIn

Turner Industries once ran its operations on traditional Windows machines, legacy virtual desktop infrastructure and on-premises data centers. That changed when the Baton Rouge-based industrial contractor decided to bet on Google’s lineup of enterprise products. The results speak in hard numbers: more than $1 million saved on devices alone, thousands of IT hours reclaimed and

Zak Storey had seen enough. In a pointed TechRadar column published this week, the veteran hardware tester declared that any manufacturer shipping a mini PC or laptop with single-channel memory in 2026 simply does not care about its customers. The frustration feels earned. Performance gaps remain glaring. And buyers keep discovering the issue too late.

The open-source artificial intelligence sector continues to gain ground even as the White House tightens export controls on advanced chips and models. According to a recent report from The Information, the very restrictions aimed at slowing potential adversaries have instead accelerated adoption of freely available models developed outside traditional industry channels. Developers and companies worldwide

Stevy Liakopoulou published a practical guide this week that cuts through the noise for small teams drowning in tasks. In Search Engine Land, she outlines a tight 120-minute weekly process designed for in-house marketers and agencies who juggle SEO alongside paid campaigns, content, analytics and endless stakeholder demands. Her approach rejects exhaustive audits. It focuses

Samsung continues to outline bolder plans for vertical NAND scaling. The company now targets structures approaching 1000 layers. This effort aims to deliver storage capacities once considered out of reach for standard form factors. Recent disclosures at technical symposia detail an accelerated roadmap. By 2029 Samsung expects to reach roughly 420 layers. Over 560 layers

Oracle has taken a notable step toward greater openness with the database that powers much of the internet. On June 25, 2026, the company published a detailed plan to restructure how outsiders interact with MySQL development. The announcement arrives after years of complaints that Oracle treated the project more like a commercial asset than a

Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla. The experience tests you. It pressures every part of a young company. Yet here he sits. Proception, the robotic hand maker he founded, has settled the high-profile dispute. Tesla dismissed its lawsuit earlier this month. And on the same day the news broke, the startup announced an

NASA faces a deadline measured in months. Its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a workhorse telescope that has spotted thousands of gamma-ray bursts since 2004, sits in a decaying orbit. Without action, it will tumble back into Earth’s atmosphere later this year and burn up. The agency turned to a small startup for an audacious fix.