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I know what you're probably thinking right now. Hey, that's the tech news guy. What's he doing in my house? Well, by clicking the thumbnail you invited me in and it's nice in here, so I'm not leaving. Sorry. You can now lease a PlayStation 5 in the UK starting at £10 per month. Because owning things is a quaint little tradition our ancestors enjoyed. This is much better. The program is called PlayStation Flex and is essentially just a partnership with Reylo, a gadget leasing business that has been doing PS5 leases since March of last year. The big change here is that it's now being advertised directly through the PlayStation Direct storefront, which basically just sends you to a PlayStation branded section of the Relo website. There's no clear buyout path. You either keep paying or eventually hand the console back when your term is up unless you contact them to negotiate. No rent to own or financing options are being offered either, like what you might see with something like Affirm on other digital stores. And this isn't even exclusive to PlayStation. Reylo will lease you the Nintendo Switch, two meta Quest, Xbox consoles, and even the Lenovo Legion. Go. Interestingly, Microsoft offered a console rent to own program called Xbox All Access before shelving it last year, presumably because it actually allowed people to save about 20 bucks overall on the cost of the console and game pass combined. That's helping consumers. We're past that. No, society has progressed to a new, advanced stage where companies take hardware that people used to be able to purchase and make it a subscription, like HP's laptop program that Linus recently covered on LTT. The problem is hardware keeps getting more expensive, so so cheaper payment plans look okay by comparison. But these companies don't even have the decency to easily let you buy out the device at the end. I mean, even car leasing companies at least entertained the option of a buyout, even if it's usually probably not the best idea. Hey, I'll tell you what Sony, I'll charge you £10amonth for me to give you some better ideas for what to do with those IP rights to Spider man, that you somehow still have. You know what? Let's talk Morbius sequels. Morbius 2 Morbius. Amazon security Camera subsidiary Ring announced yesterday that it has canceled its partnership with Flock Safety, the incompetent mass surveillance company that's recently been under fire for potential misuses of its automated license plate reader network and the leaking of 2.3 million license plate searches from its database. That one. The announcement comes after Ring aired a Super bowl ad on Sunday for its new AI powered search party feature showing dozens of cameras scanning a neighborhood to find a lost dog. Aw, that's. That would be good. But as pointed out by Senator Ed Markey, this is kind of clearly a mass surveillance program, prompting people to take a more critical look at what it might mean for Flock to be able to access Ring's camera network at will. And what they found was was not reassuring. The partnership, which was announced in October 2025 as part of Ring's community requests program, allows law enforcement agencies to request video footage from Ring doorbell owners during active investigations. Under the Flock integration, police departments using Flock software would have been able to submit those requests directly through Ring's system. And combined with Ring's recently launched Familiar Faces A, the facial recognition feature that scans every person who walks past a camera, and the search party feature's ability to track living things across an entire neighborhood, the whole package starts looking less like Find My Lost Puppy and more neighborhood surveillance state. In its press release, Ring says it's canceling the integration because it would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. Sure it is. And the breakup was totally mutual. Floc was one of two companies approved for the community requests feature. The other is Axon, the world's largest manufacturer of Tasers and body cameras. So the only remaining approved handler for your Ring doorbell footage is the Taser guys. If that makes you feel safe, I've got a very nice bridge to sell ya. The China manned space Agency on Tuesday successfully tested its Mengzhou crew capsule and long March 10 rocket, which nail a propulsive landing on a recovery barge. China is targeting a manned landing on the moon by 2030, which is also where Jeff Bezos wants to go. Hours after the test, Bezos, with the energy of the weird kid who ate glue in elementary school, tweeted a black and white photo of a turtle. I like turtles. What can I say? Bold move when you already look like the turtle club guy from Dana Carvey's 2002 film Master of Disguise. Yes, the cryptic tweet was evidently a reference to Bezos own space company Blue Origin, which has a coat of arms featuring two turtles. In an apparent attempt to troll Elon Musk. The two have taken little potshots at each other since 2015, when Jeff made his infamous welcome to the club tweet. SpaceX had just landed a Falcon booster and Bezos pointed out that Blue Origin's New Shepard had done a suborbital landing weeks earlier. Yeah, you're just as cool as us now. You gotta love watching these two weirdos be in a decade long pissing contest over who gets to colonize space first. Feels like they feels like they drowned the world in piss before either of them won. Blue Origin recently shared plans for an accelerated moon architecture that could land astronauts before 2030. Which may have had something to do with Elon announcing on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted focus to building a self growing city on the moon instead of Mars, claiming that this could be achieved in less than 10 years. Now this is the same Elon Musk who in January 2025 tweeted that the moon is a distraction and called NASA's Artemis moon mission a jobs program. All of this might be moot though, because apparently SpaceX is a train company now. Sort of. We're referencing a letter written by the National labor relations board to 8:40 former SpaceX employees who were fired after they wrote an open letter criticizing Musk as a frequent source of embarrassment. The nlrb, under the Biden administration had filed a complaint seeking those employees reinstatement and back pay. But in an effort to get out of it, SpaceX argued it should be regulated like an airline or railroad instead, which coincidentally exempts it from the National Labor Relations act entirely. When you're a train, they let you do it. The fired employee's attorney called the NLRB's decision to treat SpaceX as a common carrier contrary to law and public policy. Choo choo. All aboard the space train. You get no benefits and you'd have to work in Elon Musk's moon colony. Just so you know me, I'd rather check out our sponsor, Squarespace.