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June 12, 2025 | Read online
# GitHub's milestone, Switch 2 is BIG and Darth Vader sues AI company Plus: a retro, fun way to find exposed IoT devices
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Hello!
As you will see, I’ve added a link to discuss each topic/Leftover section in the Sizzle Slack and Forum as part of my Spring Cleaning project. It doesn’t quite take you to the individual topic yet — mostly because I haven’t figured out a way to do it with my current automations — but should make it easier for any of you to chat about any of these. Enjoy!
# The News
### GitHub’s 1,000,000,000th repository milestone
About six hours ago or so, Github’s one billionth repository — called ‘shit’ — was created (GitHub). It feels impossible now to imagine a world without it. It’s a miracle that a free-to-use, collaborative platform designed to help strangers work together to create, tinker and improve on new things in the open exists at all. The default being open is so powerful that sometimes people forget — like the Trump administration group who accidentally leaked their AI plans this week (The Register). As with all things good, greedy AI types are a real threat to GitHub continuing to exist. Don’t take it for granted.
If you’re interested in a short history of the platform, check out Why Github Won (GitButler).
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### Nintendo Switch 2 is B I G
Nintendo’s Switch 2 has almost certainly broken the record for the fastest selling console of all time, shipping 3.5 million consoles in four days (Polygon). Anecdotally I’ve heard that it’s not that hard to get one so it seems like Nintendo has also impressively managed to handle all the supply chain issues that have affected other console launches and the Trump tariff complications. Reviews like the Shortcut’s have been almost entirely positive, even if the Switch 2 is more iteration than re-invention. Have you picked up a Switch 2? I’d love to hear. Also in gaming news: Hong Kong has banned Reversed Front: Bonfire, which lets players wage guerrilla warfare against the CCP, using national security laws to prohibit a video game for the first time (Engadget).
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### AI copyright machine gets sued for copyright and first AI agent exploit
Two big foes, Disney and Universal, have teamed to sue AI image and video generation company Midjourney for being a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” (Axios). The copyright lawsuit (PDF) shows that the AI company blatantly trained on famous IP, that they made no effort to stop people from using their tools to recreate copyrighted material and — here’s the one that’s a no-no — even promoted Midjourney using this IP. Another AI story: researchers have found the first AI agent zero-day that turned Microsoft 365 Copilot against its user. The first of many to come, I expect (Fortune)
P.S. Sizzler Adam emailed to make the point yesterday to say the reason that companies are pumping money into AI is because they are actually seeing real benefits from AI, even if consumer-facing products are lagging behind.
I don’t really care about IP but it’s pretty brazen to allow your paid products to do this
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#### Leftovers
Generative AI and child safety: A convergence of innovation and exploitation (eSafety Commissioner blog) Aussie satellite shake-up as Vocus takes on Elon Musk’s Starlink (The Australian, $) Google just soft-launched nine cool Home app features (The Verge) Apple’s updated parental controls will require kids to get permission to text new numbers (The Verge) Social media use increases depression in preteens, not vice versa, researchers find (MedicalXpress) WhatsApp tells BBC it backs Apple in legal row with UK over user data (BBC) Musk’s threat to sue firms that don’t buy ads on X seems to have paid off (Ars Technica) Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash (404 Media, $) Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads (The Verge) How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields (FT, $) The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI (The Verge) Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project (Journal de Ludovic Hirlimann) FreeBSD 14.3 Released With Network Driver Updates, OpenZFS Updated (Phoronix) Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do (Baldur Bjarnason) The first big AI disaster is yet to happen (Sean Goedecke) Steve Jobs would have fired everyone (x dot com)
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# Oh, Also
### A fun, retro way to find exposed IoT devices
Many of you will be familiar with Shodan — the internet service not the video game character — which allows people to search for devices connected to the internet. It’s already a cool enough tool, but then I discovered something even cooler: Shodan 2000, which publishes a stream of random servers (including unsecured IoT devices) using a retro, vaporwave interface.
Is this hacking? Did I hack?
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# Bargains
Electrical & Electronics
DJI Osmo Mobile 7P Gimbal - $188 at Amazon AU Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless over-Ear Headphones - $279 at Sennheiser eBay Creality K1C 3D Printer - $459 at Jaycar Apple Watch Series 10 GPS at Costco 42mm for $489 46mm for $529 Apple AirPod Max Midnight Black [USB-C] - $718 at OW TCL 65C6K 4K QD-Miniled Google TV (2025) - $1295 at JB Hi-Fi Samsung The Frame QLED 4K Smart TV (2024) at JB Hi-Fi 65" for $1595 75" for $1995 85" for $2888 Samsung S90F 65” OLED (2025) TV - $2995 at JB Hifi
Computing
DreamIT Host 60% off Your First Invoice (New Services Only) + Free Website Migrations QNAP QSW-1105-5T 5-Port Unmanaged 2.5GbE Network Switch - $59 at Scorptec Dell S2725QS 27" 4K UHD 120Hz Monitor - $336 at Dell HP EliteBook X360 830 G7 13.3" 2-in-1 Laptop i5-10210U 16GB 256GB Win11H (used) - $359 at Max Direct eBay TP-Link Archer BE550 BE9300 Tri Band Wi-Fi 7 Router - $366 at Amazon AU Surface Laptop 3 Intel i7 1065G7 16GB Ram 256GB SSD 13.3" Win 11 (refurbished) - $380 at BNEACTTRADER eBay WD Elements Desktop External Hard Drive at Amazon US via AU 18TB for $600 24TB for $771 Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro Wi-Fi 128GB - $697 at JB Hi-Fi Acer Aspire Lite 16" Laptop: i5-1334U CPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD & Bonus 10% gift card - $698 at Harvey Norman Gaming PC at TechFast ZOTAC Gaming Zone Handheld & Case Bundle for $699 R5-5600, RX 9060 XT 8GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB NVME for $888 Apple MacBook Air 13" (M4 Chip) 10-Core CPU, 8-Core GPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD - $1527 at digiDirect LG 42" OLED EVO Flex 4K UHD Gaming TV - $1695 at JB Hi-Fi Apple iPad Pro 13" M4 256GB Wi-Fi - $1999 at JB Hi-Fi
Mobile
OnePass Mobile 365-Day 360GB Prepaid Mobile Plan Starter Kit - $165 at OnePass Mobile Motorola Moto G85 8GB RAM/128GB storage and $50 gift card - $268 at Harvey Norman Motorola Moto G75 5G 256GB, Moto Buds & $10 Amazon credit - $277 at Amazon AU Apple iPhone 16 128GB - $1144 at Costco Google Pixel 9 Pro 256GB and $150 Harvey Norman gift card - $1347 at Harvey Norman
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