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Sony has taken down Overdrive, a homebrew storefront that offered over sixteen hundred free PlayStation four and five games, after the developer reportedly received a cease-and-desist letter. The project went viral almost overnight, which likely sealed its fate. Two GitHub repositories have since emerged to carry the torch, suggesting this one isn't over yet.
Shifting to the streaming world, Netflix has laid off around one thousand employees, representing roughly six percent of its total workforce. The company is framing this as a reset, and it marks the platform's largest round of cuts since two thousand twenty two. It's a striking move for a company that spent years positioning itself as a growth story with no ceiling.
And in the world of artificial intelligence infrastructure, Cisco and Nvidia have announced a jointly developed pluggable optic designed to carry between four and eight times the bandwidth of current solutions through a single port. AI datacenters are increasingly defined by how fast data moves between components, and this partnership signals just how seriously both companies are betting on that bottleneck being the next frontier.
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