Tech
- iPhone 17 Pro Will Make Sports History This Weekend
- Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 – 9to5Mac
- Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry – Engadget
- X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark – Engadget
- Meta has reportedly laid off 8,000 employees – Engadget
- LinkedIn doesn’t want your AI slop anymore – Engadget
- AI companies and data brokers even resort to fake forms to keep selling our data
- ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
- Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
- Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats
- After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban
- Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
- The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
- Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech – Engadget
- Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down – Fast Company
- Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz – Ars Technica
- NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security flaws for May 2026 | GamingOnLinux
- Discord now has end-to-end encryption on all calls – Engadget
- Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit for not refunding its customers after ‘unlawful’ tariffs – Engadget
Gaming
- Sony hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly profiting from tariff-related price hikes – Engadget
- The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware | GamingOnLinux
- Sony announces price increase for new PlayStation Plus subscribers “due to ongoing market conditions” | Eurogamer.net
- PlayStation just announced a new State of Play, and it’ll be over an hour long | Eurogamer.net
- Xbox hires analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer in another leadership revamp
