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That’s because DMA rules let iPad owners access alternative app stores like AltStore Classic. That opens the door to iPadOS apps with just-in-time compilation (JIT) for modern hardware emulation and running things like Windows 11 on an M2 iPad Air, as YouTuber NTDev demonstrates in the video below. MacRumors has some details on how it works.
Meanwhile, the best I can do is JIT-less Windows XP on an M1 iPad Pro.
That’s according to security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who writes that the feature “accepts text prompt, Figma files, images, etc. as input, and is powered by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model.
In a separate post, Wong also revealed that the company appears to be working on a new website creator called Figma Sites.
Many users are unable to sign into the app or connect to video calls, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you’re looking for a break from all-day meetings. The outage seemed to have started around 3PM ET, according to Downdetector.
You’ll already find the soundtracks for A Link to the Past, The Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, and Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Music app. But this week Nintendo has finally added music from Link’s first Hyrule adventure on the NES, composed by the legendary Koji Kondo.
There are 12 tracks from The Legend of Zelda, but also 12 alternate versions from the Japanese Famicom Disk System version which are definitely worth a listen.
The app’s code block feature now supports CSharp, CSS, Go, HTML, JSON, Kotlin, and PHP in addition to the five languages it originally launched with in 2022.
And I spent some time chatting with Tom Merritt about that on the Daily Tech News Show podcast! It’s a ten-minute segment, and I’ve already queued up the right part (at roughly the 24-minute mark) below.
TL;DL: On our most recent visit to Japan, we were both surprised how wildly ubiquitous and remarkably useful Google Translate has become. Here’s hoping Google gives it a more powerful real-time mode!
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Apple a letter “telling the company it should follow President Donald Trump’s executive order” extending ByteDance’s deadline to sell TikTok by 75 more days, reports Bloomberg. The outlet had reported a similar letter sent to both Google and Apple prior to their decision to restore the app to their online marketplaces in February, too.
Can you ever use too much software? Yes, but hear me out first.
Samsung TV owners belting out their favorite tunes using the Stingray Karaoke app can now reach for their smartphones to level up their performance. The Samsung SmartThings app can turn smartphones — including Samsung Galaxy S22, S23, S2, and S25 models and the iPhone 15 and 16 — into a wireless microphone.
TVs supporting the Mobile Microphone feature include certain 2025 Samsung smart TV models like the Neo QLED and The Frame.
Correction, April 2nd: An earlier version of this article misstated that the Stingray Karaoke app turns smartphones into microphones. It is the Samsung SmartThings mobile app.
Nintendo chose to announce a release window for its live-action The Legend of Zelda movie in the new Nintendo Today! app that only launched 24 hours ago. However, there was enough demand to pull up the brief video clip that Nintendo of Japan had to tweet about the issues.
I haven’t seen the information shared directly via Nintendo’s social media channels on X, Instagram, or YouTube -- if this is how we find out key info about the Switch 2 next week, then I hope it’s up to the task.
So-called “User Choice Billing” — which allows app developers to offer users payment providers other than Google Play for purchases — will be available to British users from March 29th, starting with non-gaming apps. The option is already available to users in the US, Europe, and a handful of other countries.
It saves devs from a four percent payment processing fee, though the real saving will be lower since other payment processors charge fees too.
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Nintendo has expanded its Music app’s catalog with tracks from the Game Boy and NES versions of Tetris, Dr. Mario, and the Switch’s Kirby and the Forgotten Land. On a support page on its website, Nintendo also revealed details about an October 2025 update, as spotted by Nintendo Life.
Using the app requires a Switch Online subscription, but later this year those who unsubscribe will still be able to access, edit, and share playlists they created.
