A 2019 research essay proposed seven specific technical ideals for software that gives you real data ownership without giving up real-time collaboration. The math that makes it possible predates the essay by nearly a decade, and it's now shipping in real apps.
Nintendo settled a modding lawsuit for $2.4 million and shut down an entire emulator overnight. A separate lawsuit against GTA reverse-engineers quietly settled with an NDA. Modding law isn't one clear rule — it's at least three separate legal questions people constantly conflate.
A Dota 2 prize pool can be crowdfunded straight from player purchases. A League of Legends team can pay $10 million just for the right to compete. Neither guarantees profit — one documented CS org lost $322,565 over two and a half years.
The world generated 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022 — and threw away $63 billion in recoverable gold, copper, and other materials doing it. Only 22% was properly recycled. Here's where the rest actually ends up.
California just turned on a real, working tool that lets you send one request to over 600 registered data brokers at once. Here's what a data broker actually is, and the specific, concrete steps to find out what they have on you.
Handheld gaming PC shipments jumped 32% in a single year, and it's not really a hardware story — it's a software one. A compatibility layer called Proton is the actual reason this category exists at all.
Sony has confirmed no new PlayStation games will ship on disc starting 2028. That's not a small policy tweak — it's colliding directly with a documented preservation crisis where 87% of classic games are already effectively gone.
Right-to-repair laws have quietly gone from advocacy talking point to enacted legislation in over a dozen states. Here's what the laws actually require, what 'parts pairing' means, and why this affects you even if you never plan to open a device yourself.
You don't need to be a developer to make an informed choice between open source and proprietary software. Here's what the real trade-offs are — security, support, cost, and vendor lock-in — without the ideology.
