In light of the Internet Archive losing its appeal to hachette, I just wanted to point out some websites you should avoid:

* https://annas-archive.li/
* https://downmagaz.net/
* https://ebook-hunter.org/
* https://forcoder.net/
* https://freemagazines.top/
* https://liber3.eth.limo/

If you were to download books from these websites, you might cut into hachette's more than three billion dollars of annual revenue. So make sure to avoid those websites and the following:

* https://libgen.is/
* https://oceanofpdf.com/
* https://pdfroom.com/
* https://pdfstop.com/
* https://pdfdrive.to/
* https://pdfmagazines.club/
* https://sci-hub.se/
* https://singlelogin.re/
* ... or any of the other sites listed at https://rentry.co/megathread-books

#internetarchive

Amazon’s $1,600 Astro robot has FOUR CPUs running Linux?!!!

Amazon lists four CPUs in the specs (“2x Qualcomm QCS605, 1x Qualcomm SDA660, 1x processor with Amazon AZ1 Neural Edge”)

iFixit’s teardown shows the Snapdragon 660 (a smartphone CPU) and the Mediatek MT8512 (the CPU from the Echo Show 10)… apparently just to run the tablet at the front!

On another board, there’s the pair of QCS605 octa-core CPUs (likely for image processing).

https://www.ifixit.com/News/70384/amazon-astro-teardown

https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Astro/dp/B078NSDFSB

This is truly Amazon’s Juicero.

The officially best news of the $interval:

World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):

https://worldofgoo2.com/

It's been a while since last #nakeddiefriday so here we go.

Today's exhibit comes from a German payphone card (remember them?). Infineon M2332-B1. What is interesting, is the decision to fill as much top metal as possible, making the die look very much like hobby-made milled PCBs.

More: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:infineon:m2332-b1

N.B. If you look closely, you will find a sun. 🌞

#reverseengineering #electronics #microscopy #icre