Sony confirmed it will stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games by January 2028, shifting entirely to digital releases. The move has triggered a massive backlash, with a petition hitting nearly 250,000 signatures and PS Plus cancellation offers drawing sharp criticism.
Discord confirmed that a bug in its automated moderation system wrongfully banned more than 8,200 accounts over two months, with harmless images containing square grid patterns, such as chess boards, Minecraft textures, and spreadsheets, triggering the false positives. The company restored all affected accounts on July 7, 2026, after a wave of additional bans exposed a dual failure in its similarity-matching database that issued permanent bans instead of review pauses and failed to automatically lift cleared accounts.
Noma Labs uncovered GitLost, a prompt injection flaw in GitHub’s Agentic Workflows that silently leaks private repo data through public issues. The zero-auth exploit bypasses platform guardrails with a single keyword trick.
Silence, Daedalic Entertainment's 2016 hand-painted point-and-click adventure, is currently free on GOG.com as part of a limited-time giveaway. The game follows siblings Noah and Renie in a mystical realm between life and death, featuring three playable characters, a cinematic Telltale-style narrative, and stunning 2D painterly visuals rendered over 3D scenes.
A recent leak indicates Intel is preparing a 16-core Nova Lake-S desktop processor featuring an unprecedented 12-core Xe3P integrated GPU, positioning it as a direct competitor to AMD's Ryzen G-series APUs. If confirmed, the chip would launch on the new LGA 1954 platform in late 2026, delivering RTX 4050-level graphics performance to budget builds without requiring a discrete card.
Leaked specifications point to a new Blackwell GPU designed to bridge the pricing gap between the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090, but technical inconsistencies in the memory configuration cast serious doubt on the report. While the RTX 5090 SE remains unconfirmed, a more credible RTX 50 SUPER refresh appears to be on track for a CES 2026 reveal and Q1 2027 launch.
The European Parliament has extended Chat Control 1.0 through a contentious procedural vote, keeping a controversial scanning loophole active until 2028. While the rule permits tech companies to voluntarily scan private communications for abuse material, it has reignited fierce debates over encryption standards and legislative transparency.
China’s official vulnerability database flagged recent Claude Code builds for transmitting sensitive user data without explicit consent. The alert centers on a mischaracterized anti-distillation safeguard that Anthropic quietly removed in a July patch.
Epic Games Store is handing out the 2D automation sandbox Nova Lands and the 3D shop-management sim Tattoo Tycoon until July 16, 2025. You can claim both titles directly from the Epic client before the Tuesday deadline passes.
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