The gaming news site Aftermath reports:



Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the games.

Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation store uses language like "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase," lawyers wrote in a complaint filed on Thursday... "In reality, consumers who 'purchase' digital games through PlayStation do not obtain ownership of those products," lawyers wrote. "Instead, PlayStation grants only a limited, revocable license to access the software, subject to multiple restrictions contained in a separate Software Product License Agreement"....

[T]he PlayStation store does have a disclosure. Above the "Confirm Purchase" button, there's a note: "By selecting [Confirm Purchase], you agree to complete the purchase in accordance with the PlayStation Terms of Service before using this content. You further acknowledge that your purchase of this digital product amounts to a license subject to the Software Product License Agreement." These four gamers aren't satisfied with that; they said in the complaint that it's too small, and that "a reasonable customer completing a purchase would not necessarily notice this disclosure."



"It's a proposed class action complaint, meaning the group of four gamers is asking a judge to grant them class action status."

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Nawi Cove and Crown area of Barangaroo. The Vivid water spray is Constellation, a projection onto a cloud of mist. We were invited to tear through the heart of a black hole and while it wasn't quite like a hologram from another universe as promised, it did get us wet as the wind blew it onto the harbourside.

Thousands of green sea turtle hatchlings swim to sea in conservation win. The project at Raine Island, where 90 per cent of northern green sea turtles nest, has been working for a decade to improve hatching success. (Australia)

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft op Truth Social gezegd dat er meerdere personen zijn gearresteerd wegens vandalisme bij de Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington. Een van de mensen die zou zijn aangeklaagd is de 67-jarige David Carter Hearn, een drievoudig olympiër.

Hearn, die op de Olympische Spelen deelnam bij het kanoën, zei dat hij vrijdag alleen even was gestopt om een kijkje te nemen bij de vijver en met zijn hand een strook loslatende blauwe verf had aangeraakt die tussen de algen dreef.

De vijver werd onlangs gerenoveerd, een project dat meer dan 14 miljoen dollar kostte. De renovatie is onderdeel van Trumps ingrijpende plannen om de Amerikaanse hoofdstad te transformeren. De bodem van de vijver werd in een kleur geverfd die Trump "Amerikaanse vlag-blauw" noemde.

De verf begon echter snel los te laten en de vijver raakte na de snelle renovatie bedekt met wolken algen. Volgens Trump moet de vijver waarschijnlijk gedeeltelijk worden leeggepompt voor "noodzakelijke reparaties", na wat hij omschrijft als "vandalisme" op de locatie.

LONDEN (ANP/AFP) - Koning Charles III gaat als eerste Britse vorst zijn persoonlijke belastingaangifte openbaar maken in een poging de transparantie van het koningshuis te verbeteren, maakte Buckingham Palace bekend. De koninklijke financiën liggen onder een steeds groter maatschappelijk vergrootglas.

"De beslissing om dit als vorst te doen, kwam op uitdrukkelijke wens van de koning zelf, als onderdeel van de aanpassingen die sinds zijn troonsbestijging zijn doorgevoerd", aldus een woordvoerder.

Britse vorsten zijn wettelijk vrijgesteld van het betalen van bepaalde belastingen, al betalen ze al decennialang op vrijwillige basis enkele belastingen. Het is dan ook niet verplicht om hun aangifte openbaar te maken, maar de recente schandalen rondom de in opspraak geraakte prins Andrew hebben de financiën van het koningshuis in de schijnwerpers gezet.

De belastinggegevens van Charles worden donderdag gedeeld als onderdeel van de jaarlijkse koninklijke financiële jaarrekening, meldt de BBC.

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Changes for Japan too with Tomiyasu and Itakura coming into the back three, and Ito and Tanaka into the front three. Expect the same 3-4-3 structure that has served Moriyasu well in recent months as he has built Japan from a side capable of dominating Asia to one equipped to handle the rest of the world.

Japan (3-4-3) 1 Suzuki; 22 Tomiyasu, 4 Itakura, 21 Ito; 10 Doan, 24 Sano, 15 Kamada, 13 Nakamura; 14 Ito, 7 Tanaka, 18 Ueda.

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Reports from Siberia confirm attack, while Ukrainian president says new weapon has 3,000km range; occupied Crimea under attack. What we know on day 1,579

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed that Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Russia’s Tyumen region ⁠in western Siberia, ⁠more ​than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) from Ukraine. He said Ukrainian company Fire Point had developed new long-range drones capable of ⁠travelling more than 3,000km and they had been “successfully deployed”. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy thanked the Ukrainian ⁠military for special operations that “have reached Tyumen Region in Russia, including ​an oil refining facility. More ‌than 2,000km from ‌our state border. This is effective work.”

Unverified videos posted online showed smoke and flame rising over what was said to be the burning Tyumen refinery, also known as the Antipinsky refinery. The Tyumen governor, Alexander Moor, claimed emergency services were working at the site of “fallen [drone] debris” – a phrasing often used by Russian officials to play down successful Ukrainian attacks.

Ukraine’s forces struck an oil terminal at Kerch in occupied Crimea over Saturday night, according to Ukrainian media and online accounts monitoring the war. Nasa satellite monitoring showed a fire at the Kerch seaport where the terminal is located. In what appeared to be a broader wave of strikes against Russian-held targets in Crimea, an electrical substation at Bilohorsk was reportedly on fire, and there were other attacks at Yevpatoria and the main city of Sevastopol.

Russian ⁠forces struck the ⁠south-eastern Ukrainian ⁠city of ​Zaporizhzhia with glide ⁠bombs on Saturday, killing five ⁠people ​and ‌injuring 10, said Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor. Fedorov said there ‌had been nine strikes ​in the city. He ⁠said residents could ​be ​trapped ​in the ​rubble ‌of ​damaged buildings.

Near the Russian border, a bomb attack killed ​one person on the ​outskirts of the city of ​Sumy, local officials said. In the southern Kherson region, the regional ​governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said ‌one person had ​died in ​a drone attack on a village north of the region’s main city, also called Kherson. Three children were injured when the central city of Poltava came under Russian shelling, local officials said.

Russian bombs struck an apartment building on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine including a six-year-old child, authorities said.

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It’s doubtful whether many Ecuador supporters – or many others for that matter – had ever heard the name Eloy Room before this match. They will never forget it now.

Watched by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in the stands, the Curaçao goalkeeper etched his name into the pantheon of World Cup legends with what must rank as one of the most heroic performances in the long history of the competition.

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Een buurthuis beginnen is hard werken, weten ze in Schiebroek-Zuid, een kwetsbare buurt in Rotterdam. Komen er wel mensen? Waar blijft het geld? En soms is er ineens magie.

Curaçao heeft zaterdagnacht geschiedenis geschreven door voor het eerst een punt te pakken op het wereldkampioenschap.

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Matsuyama Castle (松山城, Matsuyamajō) is one of Japan's twelve "original castles", i.e. castles which have survived the post-feudal era since 1868 intact. It is located on Mount Katsuyama, a steep hill in the city center that provides visitors with a bird's eye view of Matsuyama and the Seto Inland Sea. Matsuyama Castle was constructed between 1602 and 1628.

Matsuyama Castle provides an excellent example of a feudal castle. The main circle of defense (Honmaru) is located on the top of the hill, accessible through multiple, well defended gates. The main keep is one of only a few in the country that boast multiple wings. The complex also includes a secondary keep and multiple turrets, giving Matsuyama Castle a grand appearance and making it interesting to explore.

Source: www.japan-guide.com/e/e5501.html

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Hij werd bekend als alleenstaande vader van vijf kinderen in het televisieprogramma Een Huis Vol. De op Curaçao geboren 'papa Jay', ondertussen weer getrouwd, keek met zijn grote gezin naar het historische gelijkspel tegen Ecuador. "KWOOT"