Month: March 2025

Google recently killed the Chromecast brand, but the dongles live on—mostly. Owners of the second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio have noticed this week that their beloved streaming gadgets are no longer working. It appears that Google configured the devices with a single 10-year certificate that has now expired, and updating it is no simple feat. Google is looking into a fix, and there's nothing you can do in the meantime. In fact, trying to fix this yourself might only make things worse.

Beginning this week, attempting to connect your phone to a second-gen Chromecast or Chromecast Audio results in untrusted device or authentication errors. The unhelpful popup suggests this could be due to outdated firmware, which is technically true. Some wondered if this was simply Google's way of putting the decade-old device out to pasture.

One industrious Redditor has identified the dongle's certificate chain with a line reading "NotAfter: Mar 9 16:44:39 2025 GMT." Google may have included a 10-year certificate with the intention of updating it, or perhaps plans to switch to a rotating certificate fell through the cracks, or maybe no one had a plan because Google didn't expect these $35 devices to still be so popular a decade later—all things are possible in Google product support.

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Die portable Xbox soll wie das Steam Deck als Handheld vermarktet werden. Auch ist schon eine Nachfolger der Xbox Series X in Entwicklung. (Spielekonsole, Microsoft)

Der Fortnite-Schlachtenbus von Lego wird beim Hersteller als exklusiv gekennzeichnet. Doch auch bei Amazon ist er erhältlich und reduziert. (Lego, Fortnite)

Eine große Zahl von Anträgen auf Glasfaser-Förderung wird bewilligt - und dann wieder zurückgenommen. Ein großer Branchenverband erklärt, warum das so ist. (Glasfaser, Breko)

Donald Trump's sudden decision last week to attack the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act after he previously offered assurances that he wouldn't has sent shockwaves across the industry and has even given some Republicans whiplash.

Soon after Trump told Congress that the CHIPS Act is a "horrible, horrible thing," chip company executives rushed to consult their lawyers to see if Trump could possibly claw back funding or terminate their contracts, eight people familiar with the executives' moves told The New York Times. At least one expert told Ars that their fear isn't completely unfounded.

Signed into law by Joe Biden in 2022, the CHIPS Act sought to grant $52.7 billion in subsidies to bring the most advanced chipmakers into the US. The Commerce Department has already signed contracts granting a wide range of awards, including grants for chipmakers like Intel, Micron, Samsung, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), totaling more than $36 billion in federal subsidies.

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Durch die VW-Kooperation mit Rivian spielt die Tochterfirma Cariad nur noch eine Nebenrolle bei der Softwareentwicklung. Das hat personelle Folgen. (Cariad, Elektroauto)

Sicherheitsforscher konnten den Angriff auf ein Bot-Netz zurückführen. Entgegen der Behauptung von Elon Musk stammt dieses nicht aus der Ukraine. (DoS, Server)

Handheld gaming PCs have come a long way in recent years thanks to advances in mobile chips with high-performance integrated graphics capable of delivering decent frame rates for many recent games. But handhelds with the best processors can be pricey. A new models sold by several Chinese PC brands takes a different approach. It’s basically […]

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Die Tefal Easy Fry XXL ist eine interessante Alternative zu den Heißluftfritteusen von Philips. Jetzt gibt es sie mit 44 Prozent Rabatt. (Küche, Amazon)

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman's brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions.

The previously healthy 60-year-old woman went to the hospital after having a fever and altered mental status for three days, according to a report of her case published Monday in JAMA Neurology. By the time she arrived, she was unable to communicate normally.

Figure A: FLAIR MRI of the brain before treatment showed multiple white matter lesions adjacent to the lateral ventricles. Credit: Li et al. JAMA Neurology 2025

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed white matter lesions around her lateral ventricles, large cavities in the center of the brain filled with cerebrospinal fluid that, from the side, are C-shaped. The type of MRI used, a FLAIR MRI, is used to more easily detect lesions, and the fluid-filled lateral ventricles appear as dark, curved spaces in the center. Doctors could see white blotches and smears around those dark spaces, indicating lesions. After doing a spinal tap and running tests on her cerebral spinal fluid, they suspected she might have a bacterial infection in her brain. So they treated her with an antibiotic and a fever reducer.

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