Month: October 2024

Schlecht versorgt sind weiterhin besonders zwei Bundesländer. Nicht mal 40 Prozent 5G-Abdeckung werden dort erreicht. (5G, Mobilfunk)

Laut Qualcomm sollen Snapdragon-X-Elite-CPUs in alle PC-Formate kommen. Dafür einfach das Leistungslimit anzuheben, reicht aber nicht. (Prozessor, Notebook)

Der Wera Adventskalender 2024 ist bei Amazon bereits mit Rabatt erhältlich. Dieses Mal sind ein Mini-Tool-Check und eine Mini-Zyklop enthalten. (Technik/Hardware)

Amazon’s newest Fire HD 8 tablet for 2024 is… a lot like the company’s 2022 model of this budget tablet. It’s the same size and shape, has the same display, and has the same processor. But the good news is that it also has the same low price tag… and does bring a couple of […]

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Verkehrsbetreiber und Kartenanbieter sollen Mobilitätsdaten künftig in einen Pool einspeisen. Doch sie können auf ihre Geschäftsgeheimnisse pochen. (Vernetztes Fahren, Verbraucherschutz)

Owners of the popular home EV chargers made by Juicebox are about to lose a whole lot of features. Its owner, the energy company Enel X, has just announced that it is leaving the North American market entirely as of October 11.

Enel X says its strategy will be to pursue "further growth by providing bundled offers, including private charging solutions, to its electricity customers as well as by developing public charging infrastructure in countries where it has an electricity retail business." And since it does not have an electricity business in the US, merely a charging hardware and software one, it makes little sense to remain active here.

The company also blames high interest rates and a cooling EV market as reasons for its exit.

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When a Nintendo lawsuit targeted the people behind the Yuzu emulator in February, leading to its shutdown just a few weeks later, dark clouds appeared over the future of Switch emulation.

With momentum on its side and tacit acceptance of its core claims via settlement agreement with Yuzu, Nintendo targeted key software tools underpinning emulation of its copyrighted games. Takedown notices eliminated dozens of repos containing tools designed to provide access to Switch encryption keys, those who linked to similar tools were targeted too.

Ryujinx Alone in the Wasteland

As Nintendo systematically removed thousands of code repositories attempting to keep Yuzu’s public profile alive, an important player in the emulation scene continued seemingly intact.

Launched in 2017 by developer ‘gdkchan’, open source Switch emulator Ryujinx began life as an ARM64 emulator and now runs on Windows 10/11, macOS and Linux-based systems.

Continuously developed over the past seven years by a core team, assisted by dozens of contributing developers, Ryujinx was made available via a GitHub repo under an MIT license and was funded by donations. The reasons for Nintendo not targeting it sooner are unclear but on Monday, everything changed.

Ryujinx Given an Opportunity to Agree With Nintendo

In a Discord post subsequently posted to the official Ryujinx ‘X’ account last evening, development team member ‘riperiperi’ suggests that Nintendo outreach on Monday amounted to an ultimatum. The gaming giant and its lead developer could agree on a course of action to end the project, or presumably other options would be explored.

“Yesterday, gdkchanwas contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he’s in control of,” the announcement reads.

“While awaiting confirmation on whether he would take this agreement, the organization has been removed, so I think it’s safe to say what the outcome is. Rather than leave you with only panic and speculation, I decided to write this short message to give some closure.”

The post goes on to thank everyone who contributed code to the project, the moderation team, and all supporters throughout the emulator’s development.

Immediate Effect On Emulation Project

At the time of writing the official project homepage remains up, but there doesn’t appear to be an official notice or explanation. Importantly the download page has been wiped clean while links to other pages hosted in GitHub now return 404 errors.

The reason for that is the disappearance of the entire project from GitHub and with it all repos, code, and related history. There’s no DMCA takedown page due to the approach taken by Nintendo and the subsequent response; voluntary deletion of the project.

Voluntary takedown

Content that remains intact includes the Ryujinx account on X, plus accounts on YouTube and Patreon.

The project’s Discord channel is also operational, at least for now. It has 100,665 members of which 22,059 are currently online.

What happens next, if anything, is hard to predict. The decision to comply with Nintendo’s offer is controversial, as these things usually are. For some the disappointment was inevitable following the shutdown of Yuzu; for others, this is a battle to be fought to the bitter end.

That’s much easier said than done but since this is an open source project, someone may still decide to bring Ryujinx back to life. Nintendo, of course, is already watching.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Pine64 is a company that’s best known for making cheap, hacker-friendly laptops, smartphones, single-board computers, and other products powered by ARM-based processors. But for the last few years the company has been dabbling in products featuring RISC-V chips. And the new StarPro64 is the company’s most powerful RISC-V device to date. The upcoming single-board computer features […]

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Bei Amazon ist ein Steckdosenturm von Sameriver mit acht AC-Steckdosen und vier USB-Anschlüssen zurzeit zum günstigen Angebotspreis erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware)

Greetings from the Orbiting HQ!

As you can see, we've refreshed the site design. We hope you'll come to love it. Ars Technica is a little more than 26 years old, yet this is only our ninth site relaunch (number eight was rolled out way back in 2016!).

We think the Ars experience gets better with each iteration, and this time around, we've brought a ton of behind-the-scenes improvements aimed squarely at making the site faster, more readable, and more customizable. We've added responsive design, larger text, and more viewing options. We've also added the highly requested "Most Read" box so you can find our hottest stories at a glance. And if you're a subscriber, you can now hide certain topics that we cover—and never see those stories again.

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