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PlayStation owners in the UK are waking up to an uncomfortable reminder of what digital ownership actually means. Sony is deleting five hundred fifty one movies from customer accounts on September first, two thousand twenty six — films people paid for, gone with no refund and no alternative. Titles like Terminator Two and Apocalypse Now are on the list, and the move is reigniting a long-running debate about whether buying digital content ever truly means owning it.
Shifting gears, a journalist recently streamed the World Cup live from thirty five thousand feet on Virgin Atlantic's new Starlink-powered Wi-Fi, clocking speeds around one hundred twenty megabits per second. That's a genuine milestone. In-flight internet has long been the punchline of connectivity complaints, but satellite broadband is quietly closing the gap between the sky and your living room couch.
And on the quieter end of today's feed, a developer has released DepGuard, an open source tool that lets engineers visualize and simulate vulnerability blast radiuses inside their NPM dependency chains. It's a small project, but it speaks to a real and growing anxiety in software development — how far does one compromised package actually reach?
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