Sony has raised the price of most of its PlayStation 5 console hardware in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand by 10-15 percent, blaming “a challenging economic environment.” With rising US import costs thanks to tariffs likely a contributing factor, an equivalent price rise in the US is probably on the way.

Sony manufactures the majority of its PlayStation 5 hardware in China, now subject to 145 percent tariffs on imports into the US, and game consoles aren’t included in the pause on some tech tariffs announced Friday. A price increase in other markets may be a way of limiting how sharply prices will need t

Today, I’m talking to Rohit Chopra. He was the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began trying to dismantle the agency.

The CFPB has been around for just under 15 years now. Congress created the agency in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from various kinds of lending and credit schemes that led to that crash.

A Microsoft employee interrupted an address being given by AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman as part of the company's 50th anniversary event, demanding the company "stop using AI for genocide."

The disruption was first reported by The Verge, which also shared video of the incident. It can also be heard in The Verge's full coverage of Microsoft's Copilot presentation, although Ibtihal Aboussad, reportedly the employee who interrupted Suleyman, is out of view.

"You are a war profiteer," Aboussad says as she's escorted out of the room. "Shame on you. You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide, Mustafa. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands."

A February 2025 report by AP said the Israeli military's use o

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Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing

In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, "streaming anxiety" is making people buy more DVDs and records -- as younger digital generations fear having their life histories erased.

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Christopher Nolan has achieved some great feats of cinema in his career -- but last November he pulled off something impressive on the smaller screen, too. Deep into the streaming era, where physical media can sometimes feel like a distant memory, the Blu-ray home video release of Nolan's Oppenheimer -- one of 2023's bigg

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• The Bank of England (BoE) has decided to hold interest rates at 5.25% — its highest level in 15 years — as it warned that the UK economy was unlikely to see growth until 2025. BBC News
• The BoE's Monetary Policy Committee 6-3 decision is its second pause in a row after 14 consecutive rate hikes. In September, the bank voted 5-4 for its first rate halt since December 2021. Evening Standard
• In a statement following the decision, the MPC claimed that it would be "watching closely" to see if further rate increases were needed, also commenting that it was "much too early" to consider rate cuts. All three committee members who did not vote for a rate pause were in favor of a quarter-point rate increase to 5.5%. [Independent (LR: 2 CP: 3)](https://www.independent.c

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The former US President announced his intention to create a new social media platform after he was banned from Facebook and Twitter last year.

WASHINGTON — Three Florida men were charged Thursday in criminal and civil complaints with insider trading of a shell company’s stock before it announced plans to merge with a social media firm launched by former President Donald Trump.

The men, Michael Shvartsman, Gerald Shvartsman, and Bruce Garelick, allegedly netted more than $22 million in illicit profits from trading in shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp.

All three were arrested Thursday morning, said the Justice Department.

The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a civil complaint against Garelick, the Shvartsmans, who are brothers, and Rocket One Capital LLC, a venture capital firm owned by Michael Shvartsman.

The charges do not