Month: June 2025

TRMNL is a $139 WiFi-enabled E Ink display with open source firmware (you can also make one from a jailbroken Kindle)

TRMNL is a small E Ink screen that you can mount on a wall, place on your desk, or put just about anywhere to display a stream of information. First launched through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2024, you can now buy a TRMNL device directly f…

TRMNL is a small E Ink screen that you can mount on a wall, place on your desk, or put just about anywhere to display a stream of information. First launched through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2024, you can now buy a TRMNL device directly from the company’s website for $139 to get a […]

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Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”

Nintendo seems able to detect use of Mig Flash carts, which can also help enable piracy.

Earlier this week, the makers of the popular Mig Flash cartridge, which allows users to play Switch games loaded via an SD card without modifying the console itself, issued a firmware update enabling the cards to run original Switch games on the Switch 2. Since then, though, multiple Mig Flash users are reporting that they've seen their Switch 2 consoles banned from Nintendo's online servers, even in cases where the devices were only used to run backups of legitimate games the users purchased themselves.

"My Switch 2 test has been banned after using the Mig [Flash] with perfectly legal dumps of my own cartridges, so it would seem that Nintendo can detect something," popular hacking news account Switch Tools posted on social media Monday (along with a follow-up showing a stack of legitimate Switch games they said they had backed up using the device). "I strongly recommend that you do not use the Mig [Flash], it was already very risky to use but it is even more so on Switch 2."

The insistence that the ban came while using "perfectly legal dumps of my own cartridges" is important here. Nintendo has long used certificates with robust cryptographic signatures to identify when individual copies of Switch games are being shared for the purposes of piracy. If Nintendo notices the same cryptographic signature on security certificates being used by hundreds of different consoles and accounts, for instance, the company can be relatively sure that all those users are engaging in piracy.

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“Have we no shame?“: Trump’s NIH grant cuts appallingly illegal, judge rules

Trump ordered to restore funding for minority, LGBTQ+ health research.

The Trump administration has locked horns with a federal judge who ruled on Monday that more than $1 billion in DEI-fueled cuts to federal health research clearly discriminated against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people.

In what The New York Times dubbed a “damning assessment” of Trump’s motives, Judge Williams G. Young ruled from the bench that the cuts were “void and illegal,” saying it was his “duty” to immediately order funding restored.

“I would be blind not to call it out,” Young said, declaring that in 40 years, he has “never seen government racial discrimination like this.”

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How Tesla Takedown got its start

It’s an unlikely coalition that’s been hyping Tesla’s stock slide since its launch.

On a sunny April afternoon in Seattle, around 40 activists gathered at the Pine Box, a beer and pizza bar in the sometimes scruffy Capitol Hill neighborhood. The group had reserved a side room attached to the outside patio; before remarks began, attendees flowed in and out, enjoying the warm day. Someone set up a sound system. Then the activists settled in, straining their ears as the streamed call crackled through less-than-perfect speakers.

In more than a decade of climate organizing, it was the first time Emily Johnston, one of the group’s leaders, had attended a happy hour to listen to a company’s quarterly earnings call. Also the first time a local TV station showed up to cover such a happy hour. “This whole campaign has been just a magnet for attention,” she says.

The group, officially called the Troublemakers, was rewarded right away. TeslaCEO Elon Musk started the investors’ call for the first quarter of 2025 with a sideways acknowledgement of exactly the work the group had been doing for the past two months. He called out the nationwide backlash to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, an effort to cut government spending staffed by young tech enthusiasts and Musk company alumni, named—with typical Muskian Internet-brained flourish—for an early 2010s meme.

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Datenschutz: Wie viel EU steckt in DNS4EU?

Seit letzter Woche ist DNS4EU freigeschaltet, dessen Server nur in der EU gehostet werden sollen. Wir haben es überprüft. Eine Recherche von Jens Link (DNS, Datenschutz)

Seit letzter Woche ist DNS4EU freigeschaltet, dessen Server nur in der EU gehostet werden sollen. Wir haben es überprüft. Eine Recherche von Jens Link (DNS, Datenschutz)

The MacBook Air is the obvious loser as the sun sets on the Intel Mac era

In the end, Intel Macs have mostly gotten a better deal than PowerPC Macs did.

For the last three years, we've engaged in some in-depth data analysis and tea-leaf reading to answer two questions about Apple's support for older Macs that still use Intel chips.

First, was Apple providing fewer updates and fewer years of software support to Macs based on Intel chips as it worked to transition the entire lineup to its internally developed Apple Silicon? And second, how long could Intel Mac owners reasonably expect to keep getting updates?

The answer to the first question has always been "it depends, but generally yes." And this year, we have a definitive answer to the second question: For the bare handful of Intel Macs it supports, macOS 26 Tahoe will be the final new version of the operating system to support any of Intel's chips.

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