RMP 040 -- The Risks to Game, Software, and Internet History Preservation

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Episode Notes

Housekeeping

• RM Quarterly vol 1 is now available for all paid subscribers!

News

Apple News

• Last iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano added to Obsolete List

• New Macs Announced in Late October “Week of Mac” Series of Video Announcements

• macOS 15.1 update allegedly stops users from running unsigned applications

Linux News

• US Government sanctions Russian developers and maintainers in GPL software including the Linux kernel

  • Linus’ response

  • Bryan Lunduke’s Coverage

• The PineNote — Pine64’s Linux-Powered E-Ink Tablet — is Making a Return

  • Press Release

• Ubuntu 25.04 codename revealed via Tweet on X to be “Plucky Puffin”

• Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004

  • Dmitry’s full write up

• Fedora 41 Release Notes

  • The Miracle Window Manager

Microsoft News

• Windows Recall Delayed Again

• Microsoft adding AI features to Notepad and Paint

Creepy AI News

• Tesla Reveals Optimus, a Walking Humanoid Robot You Could Buy in 2027

Other Tech News

• SpaceX Rocket Catch

• Internet Archive Data Breach

• Up to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords stored in plain text

• PayPal terms of service change to sell user data

• NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

Retro Gaming/Vintage Computing News

• Two Lost Sega Channel Games Have Been Found And Preserved

• Epic Games Is Totally Chill About You Downloading Unreal And Unreal Tournament For Nothing

• The ZX Spectrum Just Got An Amazing New Donkey Kong Port

• An MSX Core Has Just Been Released For The Analogue Pocket

• Atari ST Shoot 'Em Up 'Wings Of Death' Is Getting A Jaguar Port

Command Line Tool of the Month: play

• https://github.com/paololazzari/play

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