There is Nintendo sued against the creators of Yuzu, a popular Switch emulator that allows users to play games developed for the platform on their PCs and Android devices. In the lawsuit, the company alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
While Nintendo’s take on online criminals isn’t new, this case could set a precedent for future lawsuits against emulators, which aren’t illegal themselves. Nintendo claims they are illegal in nature. This could be a big deal.
Nintendo said it protects its games with encryption and other security features to prevent people from playing pirated copies: “Without Yuzu’s decryption of Nintendo’s encryption, unauthorized copies of the games could not be played on PC or Android devices,” the company wrote in the complaint. .
Nintendo announced The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom it was illegally distributed a week and a half before its official release. Apparently, it has been downloaded more than a million times from pirated websites, which made it particularly noticeable that people could play the game file through Yuzu. The company also noted that Yuzu’s creators make money from their emulator: $30,000 per month from Patreon supporters and about $50,000 from the paid version of the Google Play app.
– Matt Smith
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Bulk sales of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be restricted.
In an entertaining vision of the final stage of future capitalism, President Joe Biden is issuing an executive order to limit the bulk sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern,” including Russia and China. The order specifically targets the mass sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health and other personally identifiable information.
Researchers and privacy advocates have long warned of national security risks posed by an unregulated multibillion-dollar data brokerage industry. Last fall, Duke University researchers revealed that they could easily obtain personal and health information about US military personnel by posing as foreign agents. Gap: This order will do nothing to slow the bulk sale of Americans’ data to countries or companies not considered a security risk.
And go as high as $25,000.
LG’s 2024 OLED evo TVs finally have prices. They’ll start at $1,500 for mid-range C4 models and go up to $25,000 for the 97-inch G4 flagship. This year’s main theme is artificial intelligence, and the company’s latest Alpha 11 processor is said to boost graphics performance by 70 percent, but this will only be available on the high-end G4 series. C4 models will get the updated Alpha 9 Gen 7 chip. Both promise improved brightness (150 percent for the G4 compared to the G3), as well as more AI features like zoom.
If your device supports SD Express.
Samsung’s upcoming microSD card will not only hold 256GB, but it will also dramatically increase speed. The company’s 256GB SD Express microSD—Samsung’s first SD Express card—can read data at up to 800MB/s, significantly faster than microSDs you can buy today. However, we don’t yet know how much it will cost, and the card won’t be available until later this year. It will likely be expensive, but depending on how you use microSDs, it may be worth the premium.
