Daily Tech News 13 July 2025

• Well, that was quick: The Commodore 64 Ultimate is the first hardware from the eponymous company since around the time of the Peloponnesian War. (Liliputing)
  
  For certain values of "new". It is based around an existing hardware emulator kit and a very slightly modified version of the original case. Or more than slightly modified if you choose the translucent RGB Starlight or Founders Edition models.
  
  It's been updated just a little, of course. The original user port is gone, replaced with a selection of HDMI, Ethernet, and USB ports. The RAM capacity has been increased slightly, from 64K to 128MB. And the CPU is a FPGA emulating the original 6510 (a modified 6502) in hardware, apparently at around 168MHz.
  
  It also includes two ZIF sockets for optional SID audio chips, though those are only required for purists since the FPGA is quite happy to emulate those as well.
  
  Apart from that, though, any original hardware that is still operational should simply plug in and work.
  
  And it comes with a 64GB USB drive full of software and demos, the equivalent of about half a million floppy disks.
  
  Priced at $299 for the basic beige model and $349 for the Starlight version.

• If you want something slightly more modern, the Ayaneo Flip 1S updates the concept of the Nintendo DS. (Hot Hardware)
  
  It features a 7" 1080p 144Hz OLED main screen, and a choice of a a secondary 4.5" screen or a full (but certainly not full-size) keyboard, plus the usual set of game pads.
  
  And up to a 12-core Ryzen 370 CPU, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage, because this is not a toy for children.
  
  Starting at $799 it is very much a toy for adults.
  
  Only unfortunate thing is they didn't manage to work some magic that would let you somehow swap between the second screen and the physical keyboard. That would have been neat.
  
  
  
• Seriously, do not touch the prairie dogs. (CNN)
  
  Do not.
  
  
  
• Nvidia warns that its datacenter GPUs could be vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks if you deliberately make them vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks by turning off error checking. (Nerds)
  
  Do not.
  
  
  
• Microsoft Outlook went down for nearly a day for some users. (AP)
  
  What part of "do not" was too complicated?
  
  
  

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