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The Morning After: Sony apologizes for fabricated ‘interview’ with head of Last of Us studio


The biggest news stories this morning: Sony’s next PlayStation State of Play takes place May 30, Samsung’s largest union calls its first-ever strike, Punirunes is a Tamagotchi-esque digital pet with a squishy button.

Last week, Sony published a seemingly innocuous round of interviews that centered the company’s nebulous “creative entertainment vision”. Sony has since pulled the interview and issued an apology on the old page, saying the article had significant errors and inaccuracies, encompassing “animation, writing, technology, AI and future projects.” So, if all that was inaccurate, what was accurate? One institution it mentioned was the British Library, whose online information system was held hostage for ransom by a hacker group last year.

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