ownership

A lawsuit filed in California alleges that Sony PlayStation Store misleads consumers about owning digital games by using ownership language while providing only a revocable license, with a hearing scheduled for October 2026.

The article suggests that the biggest winners from AI might be those who own scarce resources like land, energy, and infrastructure, rather than programmers.

The article starts from the technological optimism brought by the early internet and the iPhone, reviews the rise and fall of the Luddites during the Industrial Revolution, explores the privatization and ownership of technology, and points out that the current rise of AI has once again sparked controversy over the ownership and control of technology.

The article argues that local-first software provides better speed, ownership, privacy, and AI capability, making cloud dependency increasingly unnecessary.

PlayStation's announcement to stop producing disks by 2028 sparks discussion about ownership in digital games. The article argues that the shift is about killing the ability to trade and preserve games, not just media format.

Modal introduces Auto Endpoints, a self-serve service for optimized, production-grade LLM inference with full code ownership, transparent metrics, and autoscaling, built on their serverless GPU infrastructure.

A practitioner recounts how deploying AI agents in production required 80% engineering effort on workflow, ownership, and approval processes rather than the model itself, highlighting that the 'boring layer' of shared context and routing is critical for real-world impact.

This article introduces a new approach to memory safety based on linear types and abstract interpretation, aiming to eliminate common bugs like use-after-free and memory leaks more ergonomically than Rust.