2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up

Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.

 

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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution

Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup

 

News

Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”

Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support

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Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot

I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives

 

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