Sean Hollister
In case you’re still wondering whether those PS5 Pro rumors were legit...
It’s pretty tough for a company to submit a copyright claim unless it owns the copyright!
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The Framework Laptop has a firmware update problem — but maybe not for long?
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!
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You should read Time Extension, my new favorite retro gaming blog.
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.
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Lego adds an excellent $230 Tie Interceptor and three Star Wars: Episode I sets.
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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That “podcast guest” hawking a product in your feed? Could be a paid actor!
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.
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Yes, Google Chrome, *please* let me temporarily pause all my extensions with a single click.
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?
Chrome may soon let you disable all extensions with one click
[Android Authority]
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Just Cause game developer Avalanche has unionized.
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.
Avalanche Studios devs form bargaining agreement with Swedish unions
[www.gamedeveloper.com]
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“The first ever conviction for the hack of a smart contract.”
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.
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