Sales of CD and vinyl music sees strong resurgence amid physical media backlash — US sales of ‘retro media’ were up 59% and 18%, respectively, in H1 2026

Music industry physical revenues jumped by 25.9% in H1 2026, ‘powered by 17.7% vinyl growth and a 58.6% increase in CDs,’ reported the RIAA.

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SpaceXAI offers 50% Starlink discount to placate data center’s residential neighbors; 2,000 have signed up — goodwill gesture comes amid vociferous community backlash

SpaceXAI Memphis said on its X account that more than 2,000 subscribers from the Memphis and Southaven area have already signed up for the discounted Starlink offer. Elon Musk is giving subscribers living near his data centers up to $65 off on their monthly internet bill.

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GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions
 GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions

Swapping the executable of a game with a modified file will fool Steam into thinking it’s opening that game when it’s really just giving you unrestricted desktop access. This is against GeForce NOW’s terms of service, though, so you run the risk of getting banned.

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400 domains used for illegal 2026 World Cup streams seized by US Justice Department — operation is five times the scale of the previous crackdown

The US Department of Justice has announced that it has seized nearly 400 domains that were illegally streaming live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux’s EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston’s ‘happy dance’ animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy

A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site’s backup quota.
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases

Via LA, the patent pool administrator for H.264/AVC, restructured its streaming license fees earlier this year, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap with a tiered system.
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Starlink satellite 34343 disappears in ‘fragment creation event’ — observation ‘immediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity of the satellite after the event’

Starlink posted an update on satellite 34343, which it lost communications with on Sunday after a debris‑generation incident.
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Revolut Bank ordered to hand over details of more than 300 Sky TV subscribers connected to piracy operation — TV provider expected to pursue subscribers who paid for illicit ‘IPTV is Easy’ service in unprecedented move

Ireland’s High Court granted Sky a Norwich Pharmacal order compelling Revolut Bank UAB to hand over the names, addresses, and banking details of 304 subscribers
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Starlink Mobile teases ‘5G speeds from space with 100x the data density’ — V2 satellites are being sent into orbit to power the upgrade

Starlink’s official social media channels are boasting about an incredible performance update on the way to mobile customers.
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Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once — 31.4 Tb/s attack was large enough to take entire countries offline

Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s

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