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Germany's ambitious effort to build the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive has collapsed. The Internationale Computerspielesammlung catalogued sixty thousand games with around one point five million euros in public funding, but when that money ran out in April, the federal government walked away, and shareholders voted unanimously to shut it down.
On a very different kind of loss, the USS Nimitz has begun its final voyage. The aircraft carrier, commissioned in nineteen seventy five and a fixture of American naval power for over fifty years, is heading toward decommissioning. It's a quiet end for a ship that defined an era of carrier operations and outlasted the Cold War itself.
And in a story that blurs the line between sport, politics, and institutional accountability, FIFA reversed a World Cup suspension for American player Folarin Balogun following a phone call from President Trump to FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Critics are already asking what it means when a governing body's disciplinary decisions bend to a head of state.
Three stories, very different worlds, all pointing at the same uncomfortable truth about who holds power and who decides when the rules apply. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
