Sony-Bye to Physical PlayStation Discs; Meta Will Rent Out Excess AI Compute Power; Google Must Pay Klarna $2 Billion-Swedish Court; Scientists-Again, No Link Between Tylenol & Autism or ADHD

As of January 2028, Sony will totally stop production of physical discs for PlayStation games. Theverge.com reports that after that, all new releases will be digital only. Games released prior to January 2028 will still be available on discs. This announcement follows one concerning Grand Theft Auto VI’s physical edition will just be a download code in a box. That move has outraged a lot of fans. Some are angry that it denies buyers resale value, it’s harder to share games (ok, Sony likes that part), and it leaves players reliant on ongoing access to console servers and accounts to access their games.

SpaceX is already doing it, and now Meta has said it will start utilizing some excess AI compute power as a cash cow, but developing a cloud infrastructure business. Amazon, via Amazon Web Services, made far more for years off AWS than off its supposed core business of internet product delivery. According to techcrunch.com, Meta will not only sell access to AI compute power, but will also include AI models. they will join the somewhat crowded marketplace including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. SpaceX has inked a deal to sell extra computer power to Anthropic…in fact, they will sell all their excess compute capacity to the rival AI company. The new Meta division will be called Meta Compute, according to reports. It may help put a dent in the massive spend on building out AI data centers…which as new chips come online, can become obsolete for AI purposes pretty quickly. 

A court in Sweden has ordered Google to fork over almost $2 billion dollars (counting interest) to Klarna’s PriceRunner subsidiary for illegally favoring its own comparison shopping service in search results. Thenextweb.com says that it is the largest damage award in Swedish history. The case rests on the European Commission’s 2017 finding that Google abused its search dominance by systematically promoting its own Google Shopping service over independent price-comparison sites. PriceRunner argued it lost traffic and revenue in the UK from 2008 and in Sweden and Denmark from 2013, when Google began steering users toward its own results. The trial ran from October to December 2025. As $2 billion isn’t chump change even to mighty Google, it and parent Alphabet are considering their legal options, including appeals. 

Last Fall, Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy, Jr had a press conference. At it, they claimed without any proof, that Tylenol causes autism in children if taken during pregnancy. Arstechnica.com reports that after this event, the Lancet found in March that the use of acetaminophen in pregnant patients had dropped by 10%. Researchers conducted yet another review of data. In the new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers analyzed electronic health records from 2001 to 2023 for more than 700,000 pairs of mothers and children in Hong Kong. Of those pairs, about 43 percent of children had exposure to acetaminophen in utero. Besides autism, they checked for ADHD. The autism analysis included over 124,000 sibling-matched children, and an analysis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) included a cohort of over 97,000 sibling-matched children. The researchers saw no link between prenatal acetaminophen use and either condition. So…pregnant women don’t have to just ‘tough it out’ with pain during pregnancy, as Donald Trump suggested. Disclosure: I have an adult Child with ADD…no “H”. He has been quite successful in the tech industry, thank you very much. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.