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From Oasis gigs to Monaco hotels, photographers' rights are under siege

Even if you’re not a fan of 1990s rock, you’ve probably heard about the Oasis reunion. Bringing Noel and Liam Gallagher back together for the first time in 16 years, their tour stretches across 41 dates and is expected to raise a billion in revenue. But here’s something you might not have heard about it. Following the opening dates in Cardiff, the band’s management told…
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DefenseNews

What to know about the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering. Whether it can lead to a deal to produce peace…
GamingNews

Amazon Restocks Spider-Man MTG Booster Box Preorders for the First Time in Months

If your wallet is still nursing bruises from the Final Fantasy and Edge of Eternities Magic: The Gathering sets, you might want to brace yourself for another hit. For the first time in months, Amazon has restocked part of the Marvel’s Spider-Man MTG lineup, one of the most sought-after Universes Beyond releases of 2025. The Spider-Man Play Booster Display set is back and available to preorder…
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GamingNews

Civilization 7 Player Trends and Performance

We’re now half a year since the troubled launch of Civilization 7, which has fewer players on Steam than both Civilization 6 and the 15-year-old Civilization 5. But according to the boss of Take-Two, Civ 7 is projected to meet the company’s initial internal…
GamingNews

Pokémon Card Promotion Ends Early at McDonald's

McDonald’s has announced the early end of a Happy Meal Pokémon card promotion in Japan, after the chain was swamped by fans buying up dozens of burgers just to extract the packs found within them. Photos and videos of the ensuing chaos posted to social media show…
ComputersNews

Got old CDs? Use this free Windows app to rip them to your PC

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times when people want to save their old CDs for posterity. In older versions of Windows, the Windows Media Player program was included, and it was easy to rip CDs. In Windows 11, this program has been…
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ComputersNews

Microsoft faces lawsuit over Windows 10’s end of support

We’re now two months from the planned end of support date for Windows 10, and it seems tempers are running high as tensions continue to build. A man from Southern California filed a lawsuit against Microsoft last week, according to one news report. The reason for the…
AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout is not going smoothly

Updated Friday August 8, 5:21 pm ET: shortly after this post’s publication, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced the company would restore access to GPT-4o and other old models for selected users, admitting the GPT-5 launch was “more bumpy than we hoped for.” The launch of OpenAI’s long anticipated new model, GPT-5, is off to a rocky start to say the least. Even forgiving errors…
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