Delta, an emulator that can play Nintendo games, had to change its logo after Adobe threatened legal action. You’d think it would face trouble from Nintendo, seeing as it has been going after emulators these days, but no. It’s Adobe who’s going after the developer, which told TechCrunch that it first received an email from the company’s lawyer on May 7. Adobe warned Delta that their logos are too similar, with its app icon infringing on the well-known Adobe “A,” and asked it to change its logo so it wouldn’t violate the company’s rights. Delta reportedly received an email from Apple, as well, telling the developer that Adobe asked it to take down the emulator app.
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If you’ll recall, Apple started allowing retro game emulators on the App Store, as long as they don’t offer pirated games for download. Delta was one of the first to be approved for listing and was at the top of Apple’s charts for a while, which is probably why it caught Adobe’s attention. At the time of writing, it sits at number six in the ranking for apps in Entertainment with 17,100 ratings.
The developer told both Adobe and Apple that its logo was a stylized version of the Greek letter “delta,” and not the uppercase letter A. Regardless, it debuted a new logo, which looks someone took a sword to its old one to cut it in half. It’s a temporary solution, though — the developer said it’s releasing the “final” version of its new logo when Delta 1.6 comes out.
Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application’s source code will be open to developers worldwide.
Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve.
Why only now? who knows. But it will hopefully be a huge boost to WACUP – which is a player that looks a lot like Winamp, allows you to use it’s (old and new) plugins but has been updated to be modern.
Following Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government.
The Sovereign Tech Fund notes that the FFmpeg project is receiving €157,580.00 for 2024 and 2025.
An announcement on the FFmpeg.org project site notes:
“The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the [maintenance] of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to billions around the world everyday.”
Exciting news and great continuing to see the significant investments across many open-source projects being made by the Sovereign Tech Fund.
Ffmpeg is a hugely important tool used for manipulating video and sound files in all kinds of ways. It is used under the hood by all kinds of projects. It’s really encouraging to see governments funding this kind of stuff, especially considering the problems open source developers are running into. There should be a lot more of this and a lot less of businesses ‘funding’ open source projects and then forking them into closed source versions (here’s looking at you, Amazon).
Jailbreaking a PlayStation 4 might sound tricky. But actually, all you need nowadays is an LG Smart TV, a few minutes of your time, and the internet.
Why would you want to jailbreak a PlayStation 4 console in 2024? There are a few reasons. For one, it opens the console up, letting you freely back up game installs and saves. You can also run emulators on the PS4 and play your installed games without a disc. And yes, some people are pirating new games and playing them on these hacked consoles, too. But we are not here to talk about that. Instead, I want to share a strange way people are jailbreaking PS4s.
As reported by HackADay.com, a recently created method for jailbreaking a PS4 involves plugging it into a jailbroken LG smart TV. (And yes, in case you didn’t know about this already, people are jailbreaking smart televisions, too.) Once you’ve hacked your LG TV, you install a digital tool onto the TV and hook your PS4 up to it using an ethernet cable. Then run the exploit tool on the TV and set up a LAN connection on the PS4…and that’s it. At that point, the tool should work its magic and you’ll soon have a jailbroken PS4.
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This new tool is built upon the work of other modders and hackers who were able to figure out new ways to jailbreak Sony’s last-gen console. And to be clear, I’m not suggesting you go buy an LG TV, jailbreak it, and then use that device to hack your PS4 and start downloading pirated games.
But being able to take full control of expensive electronic devices, like phones, TVs, and consoles, is something that we should all support as it allows these pieces of tech to be useful long after their corporate owners have moved on.
And based on what a lousy job video game companies have been doing at preserving old (or even fairly new) games, in 20 years or so, a modded PS4—jailbroken using a TV—might be the easiest way to play digital games you bought years ago but lost access to because the servers were killed.
