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February 28, 2025

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The low-cost (for Apple) iPhone 16E is here and it's... Okay. (The Verge)

Yes. It's okay.

It's also $599, which is cheap for an iPhone, but not cheap.

Tech News

Just a few hours until AMD announces the prices on its new video cards.

We already know all the technical details, and Nvidia has screwed up its RTX 5000 launch in every way imaginable, so the door is open for AMD to walk through, or to slam in its own face.
Nvidia meanwhile doubled its annual revenue over last year, mainly by selling insanely expensive GPUs to AI companies. (Tom's Hardware)

Certainly not by selling RTX 5000 cards to gamers.
Several of the old Command and Conquer games are now open source. (Gaming on Linux)

This seems to include Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Renegade, and Generals, with the Zero Hour expansion.

And it's Electronic Arts that did this, somehow.
Apple's "Find My" network lets you track any Bluetooth device anywhere. (9to5Mac)

Welcome to the goldfish bowl.
Thousands of GitHub repositories that were public but are now private can still be accessed via Copilot. (Tech Crunch)

Uh, yeah. That's how making something public works. You can't shove the mushroom cloud back into the Demon Core.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Nah, mate. Paradise is over there.

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