… Physical game discs not only provide ownership, but they also come with the benefit of resale. Gamers can recoup some of what they paid for it once they are finished playing. The extinction of game discs represents the loss of the ability to share physical games with friends and family. …
A Change.org petition urging Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 172,000 signatures, six days after the company announced that it intends to stop producing discs for new games in January 2028. …
… Sony 's announcement this morning that it would stop producing first and third-party discs for the PlayStation in 2028 drew vocal opposition from fans who prefer physical media or preserving console games. …
The CEO of GameStop — one of the world's largest video game retailers — has said that Sony’s decision to halt the production of physical game discs in 2028 is “totally irrelevant” to the company's business. …
… TSME protects against physical attacks, meaning scenarios in which someone has physical access to the machine or its memory hardware and attempts to extract secrets directly from RAM. …
… The timing of all this isn’t brilliant, given that Sony recently announced the end of physical disc production for new games in January 2028 . …
… After January 2028, no more game discs will be produced, and games will only be available through the PlayStation Store and "at retailers in digital formats only." It's a move that anyone could have guessed was coming but which is nonetheless frustrating to many fans, as it essentially rings the de… …
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… What preserves the logical computation is the error-correcting code: By distributing a single logical qubit's information across many physical qubits simultaneously, the code can tolerate the known loss of one physical qubit and reconstruct the logical state from the remaining ones. …
… Every operation inside a computer — whether running a game, training an AI model, opening a browser tab, or loading a file from storage — ultimately involves billions or trillions of tiny physical state changes. …