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Sony's push toward an all-digital PlayStation future is drawing fresh scrutiny after a PS5 owner found themselves locked out of Ghost of Yotei for roughly half an hour due to a license verification failure. It's a small inconvenience now, but it points to a much larger question: when physical game copies disappear entirely, access to the games you've paid for rests completely in Sony's hands.
On the security front, researchers at ESET have flagged a troubling vulnerability in UEFI shim bootloaders — the thin layer of software that makes Secure Boot work on Linux systems. Forgotten or outdated shims, it turns out, can quietly undermine the very protection they're meant to provide, leaving systems exposed in ways that are difficult to detect and easy to overlook.
And for anyone running Apple Silicon at home, a new open-source project called Samosa Chat is making it easier to run Qwen three point six, thirty-five billion parameters, locally on a sixteen gigabyte Mac. It's a reminder that the gap between cutting-edge AI capability and consumer hardware keeps narrowing faster than most people expected.
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