From Oliver Darcy's media newsletter Status:

As part of the effort, the Jim Bankoff-led digital media conglomerate — which houses widely recognizable brands such as New York magazine, Eater, Vox, SBNation, NowThis, Thrillist, and more — has started exploring the introduction of a pay wall on its popular technology website, The Verge, people familiar with the matter told me.

As Darcy also writes, The Verge has already experimented with some paid newsletters, which are published to The Verge as articles that require a subscription. This new offering could be a bundle and include additional bonus content.

This would fit with previous efforts to bring the focus of The Verge back to its homepage as a central way of accessing its content, as opposed to relying on social media links and SEO for traffic. From 2023:

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The PlayStation Network appears to have been down for most of today, with users reporting an issue starting at 10am, and it still being down at 1:30pm AEST.

The PSN Is Currently Down For All Users

The PSN Is Currently Down For All Users

Press Start AustraliaShannon Grixti

The best bet going forward is JB Hi-Fi, which are offering a ballot approach to pre-orders.

PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection Pre-Order Ballot

JB Hi-Fi is Australia’s largest home entertainment retailer with top products, great quality + value. Learn more about our product range online.

JB Hi-Fi

Otherwise Ebay has scalpers re-selling preorders with huge markups already.

Celebrating 30 years of PlayStation with a nostalgic look

Limited Edition console design takes PS5 back to the early days of PlayStation.

PlayStation.BlogHideaki Nishino

Now, four years on, my guest is about to release UFO 50, a collection of games that combine an 8-bit aesthetic with pioneering design. 

Cohost, a Tumblr-like social media platform from the not-for-profit Anti Software Software Company, is shutting down. The platform launched in June 2022. A core point of difference was the lack of advertisements or an algorithm.

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor¹; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.

https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down

Though Apple Intelligence won't be included in this release. That's expected to arrive in Australia by December.

iOS 18

iOS 18 makes iPhone even more personal, with deeper customisation, new ways to connect, easier-to-find photos and support for Apple Intelligence.

Apple (Australia)

iPadOS 18

iPadOS 18 brings new ways to work with Apple Pencil, new experiences in apps, deeper customisation options and support for Apple Intelligence.

Apple (Australia)

Available next Friday, September 20 from $1399 AUD. Pre-orders up today.

From Apple:

AirPods Max are available in five beautiful new colours, including midnight, starlight, blue, orange, and purple, and offer complementary finishes alongside other Apple products like Mac and iPad. Additionally, AirPods Max now feature USB-C charging capabilities, making them more convenient than ever to charge at home or on the go.

The AirPods Max are up for pre-order today for $899 AUD, or you can pick them up in-store starting next Friday, September 20.

While it's a huge part of the latest iPhone's marketing push, Apple Intelligence won't ship with the new device in Australia.

While Apple Intelligence is releasing in October for devices with the region set to English US, in Australia the feature won't arrive until December at the earliest.