Imagine partying in this thing.
It’ll just cost you $70,000, a trip to St. Louis, new tires, a blown head gasket repair for the generator, a lotta elbow grease, and chasing down all the right TVs, game systems, and games to bring it back to spec. Way more pics at the Facebook Marketplace listing (via Reddit, IGN).
It’s pretty tough for a company to submit a copyright claim unless it owns the copyright!
I didn’t realize it’d failed to deliver so many updates ‘til I read this Ars Technica story. The good news: hardware partner Compal now has a whole firmware team ready to go:
The goal, Patel says, is to continuously cycle through all of Framework’s actively supported laptops, updating each of them one at a time before looping back around and starting the process over again. Functionality-breaking problems and security fixes will take precedence, while additional features and user requests will be lower-priority.
FYI, Framework didn’t send me that promised Laptop 16 replacement to show it’d fixed issues before launch. Hope so!
This morning alone, they wrote about a new Game Boy cartridge with built-in rumble, how people can basically build their own GBAs now, and a true portable PlayStation (unlike that other cool thing I showed ya). The site’s from brains behind Nintendo Life, Push Square, and Pure Xbox, and it’s clearly flown under my radar too long.
The Tie is definitely the star, but I admit nostalgia for the rolling destroyer droid too. There’s also this kid-friendly version of Maul’s Sith Infiltrator with a slightly less-than-kid-friendly $70 pricetag, and an $80 Mos Espa Podrace diorama. I heard “Now THIS is podracing!” the instant I saw it, which I guess is a compliment!
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Verge alum Ashley Carman, for Bloomberg:
In reality, these clips aren’t coming from podcasts. In fact, Wolfe is being paid $195 for each of these one-minute advertisements designed to look like a podcast. On the freelance service website Fiverr, where he sells his service to brands, Wolfe claims: “I will make a ugc podcast video ad,” or a user-generated content ad, using the client’s own script to talk about the product.
Sometimes I need Chrome extensions to do my job. Sometimes I can’t do my job until whichever one’s misbehaving gets out of my face. So please let this be true.
Also, TIL there’s now a paid version of Chrome for enterprise with extra security?
[Android Authority]
Only the one-fifth of the company in Sweden will be covered by the two-year collective bargaining agreement, it seems, but that’s a big deal in an industry that’s dealt with quite a bit of worker exploitation. Two other recent changes: a union of 600 Activision QA workers, and Sega of America’s first union contract.
[www.gamedeveloper.com]
Shakeeb Ahmed — an ex-Amazon security engineer who admitted to stealing over $12.3M from two cryptocurrency exchanges using exploits — has been sentenced to three years in prison, will forfeit the stolen money, and pay $5M as well.
More about the exploits:
