This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, April 29th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know,

give you some context and try to help each other understand. Today, what Elon Musk said under oath in his lawsuit against Open

AI, and did Sony just bring back the C-bomb? That's a C-Moss issue with DRM, not not

anything else that you might wonder about. I'm Tom Merritt. I am also Saraly. Let's start

with what you need to know with that big story.

Hat tip to Motang for posting this one on our subreddit YouTuber Modded Warfare posted

that on April 25th, he noticed some newly bought PS4 games, PlayStation 4 games,

had a start and end valid period listed in the information

screen, implying there was a 30-day DRM in place that would require an internet connection

every 30 days to validate the game and keep it functional.

YouTuber Spawnwave was able to confirm that and even showed that if the counter

went to zero, the game stopped working.

On the PS5, that period does show up, but it's not visible in the information screen.

So you only find out when you get an error message to pop up if that counter reaches zero.

Eurogamer notes that if your CMOS battery dies,

the battery that powers among other things,

the internal clock in your PlayStation,

then the games would not be playable

because it couldn't check the time.

That's the C-bomb we were talking about.

Uh-huh.

So a user called Ann Shrew on Reset Era did a little digging and claims that the games actually just have one 30-day offline license from purchase and that the first time you connect after the 15th day, it resets to an infinite license. So this isn't a every 30 days. It's just connect once during the

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