[The Morning After]( It's Thursday, February 29, 2024. Nintendo has [filed a lawsuit]( against the creators of a popular Switch emulator called Yuzu, which gives users a way to play games developed for the platform on their PCs and Android devices. In the lawsuit, the company argues Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). While Nintendo taking down online offenders isnât new, this case could set a precedent for future lawsuits against emulators, which arenât themselves illegal. Nintendo is arguing their very nature is unlawful. It could be a big deal. Nintendo says it protects its games with encryption and other security features meant to prevent people from playing pirated copies: âWithout Yuzuâs decryption of Nintendoâs encryption, unauthorized copies of games could not be played on PCs or Android devices,â the company wrote in its complaint. Nintendo revealed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was illegally distributed a week and a half before its official release. It was apparently downloaded over a million times from pirated websites, which specifically noted people can play the game file through Yuzu. The company also mentioned that Yuzuâs creators are making money from their emulator: $30,000 a month from their Patreon supporters and around $50,000 from the paid version of their Google Play app. â Mat Smith The biggest stories you might have missed [The Apple Car never felt real]( [This is the Nothing Phone 2(a)]( [More news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement]( [TikTok is muting all Universal Music-related songs]( ââYou can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. [Subscribe right here!]( [Biden executive order aims to stop Russia and China from buying Americansâ personal data]( The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off limits.
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SAUL LOEB via Getty Images]( ) In a fun bleak imagining of future late-stage capitalism, President Joe Biden is issuing an executive order to limit the mass sale of Americansâ personal data to âcountries of concern,â including Russia and China. The order specifically targets the bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health and other personally identifying information. Researchers and privacy advocates have long warned about the national security risks posed by the largely unregulated multibillion-dollar data broker industry. Last fall, researchers at Duke University reported that they could easily buy troves of personal and health data about US military personnel by posing as foreign agents. The loophole: This order will do nothing to slow the bulk sale of Americansâ data to countries or companies not deemed to be a security risk. [Continue reading.]( [LGâs latest OLED evo TVs start at $1,500]( And go up to a sky-high $25,000.
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LG]( LGâs 2024 OLED evo TVs finally have prices. Theyâll start at $1,500 for the midrange C4 models and go up to an impressive $25,000 for the 97-inch G4 flagship. The big theme this year is AI, and the companyâs latest Alpha 11 processor is supposed to boost graphics performance by 70 percent, but itâll only be in the high-end G4 series. The C4 models, meanwhile, will get the updated Alpha 9 Gen 7 chip. Both promise improved brightness (150 percent for the G4 compared to the G3), along with more AI features, like upscaling. [Continue reading.]( [Samsungâs new microSD card is faster than some SSDs]( If your device supports SD Express. Samsungâs upcoming microSD card will not only cram in 256GB of space but will offer a dramatic speed boost. The companyâs 256GB SD Express microSD â Samsungâs first SD Express card â can read data at up to 800 MB/s, significantly faster than the microSDs you can buy today. However, we donât yet know how much it will cost, and the card wonât be available until later this year. It will probably be pricey, but it may be worth the premium depending on how you use microSDs. [Continue reading.]( The Morning After is a daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't [subscribe](. Craving even more? [Like us on Facebook]( or [follow us on Twitter](. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? [Send us a note.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( You are receiving this email because you opted in at [engadget.com](. Not interested anymore? [Unsubscribe from this newsletter.]( Copyright © 2024 Yahoo. All rights reserved.