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Submission + - Beyond emulation: The massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by thereitis
thereitis writes: From Arstechnica:
"Early this week, with little warning, the Internet was graced with a Windows executable containing a fully playable PC port of Super Mario 64. Far from being just a usual emulated ROM, this self-contained program enables features like automatic scaling to any screen resolution, and players are already experimenting with adding simple graphics-card-level reshaders, including ray-tracing, as well."

The article delves into the reversing community's efforts to produce usable C source code from N64 game binaries.

Submission + - Six Retailers Announce Recall of Buckyballs and Buckycubes High-Powered Magnet (cpsc.gov)

Submitted by thereitis
thereitis writes: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with six retailers, is announcing the voluntary recall of all Buckyballs and Buckycubes high-powered magnet sets due to ingestion hazard. CPSC continues to warn that these products contain defects in the design, warnings and instructions, which pose a substantial risk of injury and death to children and teenagers. An administrative complaint has been filed which is rare, as CPSC has filed only four administrative complaints in the past 11 years.

Submission + - Old technology coexisting with new 1

Submitted by thereitis
thereitis writes: Looking over my home computing setup, I see equipment ranging from 20 years old to several months old. What sorts of old and new equipment have you seen coexisting, and in what type of environment?

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