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The FBI is sounding the alarm after cyberattacks hit water facilities across seven states. Hackers breached critical infrastructure that millions of Americans depend on daily, raising urgent questions about how vulnerable our most essential public systems really are, and whether the agencies responsible for protecting them have the resources to do so.
On a broader front, the true cost of the artificial intelligence boom is coming into sharp focus. In Georgia alone, thirty homes are being bulldozed and three hundred thirty parcels of land seized to make way for data center infrastructure. Add that to job displacement and rising energy demands, and the question being asked more loudly is whether the benefits of AI agents genuinely justify the human toll.
And Sony is holding firm on its plan to end physical game disc production by January two thousand twenty eight, despite a loud public backlash. The company's chief financial officer confirmed on an earnings call that the all-digital transition is moving forward, cautiously but deliberately, closing a chapter that many players and retailers are not ready to turn.
Those are the stories driving the conversation today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
