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NinjHax 2.0 beta delivers homebrew, region-free, and custom themes to all Nintendo 3DSes ⊟ 

French coder Smealum has delivered a long-awaited update to NinjHax that allows you to load homebrew software, play cartridges from other regions, and use custom themes for your home screen (check our Smealum’s Calvin and Hobbes theme in the video below). The hack works with 3DSes, New 3DSes, and 2DSes from all regions running any firmware between 9.0-9.9.

You’ll still need a copy of Cubic Ninja from the same region as your system in order to load the hack (using the game’s “Scan QR Code” feature), but Smealum tells us that he intends to eventually start working on an Ocarina of Time 3D exploit in a couple weeks when he has the time. Once again, NinjHax doesn’t allow you to play commercial ROMs/pirated games.

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One fish, two fish…

Projection

So, okay. The Mindy Project has been one hell of a rollercoaster. First it was cancelled, then we found out it’s coming back to Hulu, and now we find out that they’ve snagged Joseph Gordon freakin’ Levitt for the fourth season premiere? Okay.

BuzzFeed reports that Gordon-Levitt will be guest starring in the season four premiere as Mindy’s husband, Matt. It’s supposed to be an homage to the 1998 comedy Sliding Doors, where she’s living in an alternate universe where she didn’t marry her current show husband, Danny.

Yeah, that’s a lot of in-universe stuff that might not make a whole lot of sense if you haven’t seen the show. But can you just imagine how adorable Mindy Kaling and Gordon-Levitt would be as a couple? D’aw. If this isn’t one big (500) Days of Summer parody…

Prep your headcanons. The Mindy Project is coming later this year.

(via Access Hollywood)

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The Soviet Military secretly mapped the entire world, but few outsiders have seen the maps — until now.

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The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observed Neptune on June 23, apl2010, as part of a test of the critical optical navigation Annual Checkout (ACO)-4. In this 100-millisecond exposure, taken when the spacecraft was 23.2 astronomical units (about 2.15 billion miles) from Neptune, the planet appears slightly larger than a star. At the time of this observation, the solar phase angle (the spacecraft-planet-Sun angle) was 34 degrees and the solar elongation angle (planet-spacecraft -Sun angle) was 95 degrees. Only New Horizons can observe Neptune at such large solar phase angles, which can be used to study the light-scattering properties of Neptune's atmosphere.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

Just a few weeks after the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality, Republicans are calling for legislation with bill H.R. 2802 that would protect employers and organizations that oppose same-sex marriage on the grounds of religious belief.

The Huffington Post explains:

The First Amendment Defense Act prohibits the federal government from taking discriminatory action against a person—which is defined to include for-profit corporations—acting in accordance with a religious belief that favors so-called traditional marriage. This means the feds can’t revoke a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status or end a company’s federal contract over this issue.

The bill would protect companies and people that believe marriage is a union between “one man and one woman” or that “sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage”

American Civil Liberties Union legislation representative Ian Thompson told Huffington Post that in addition to targeting the LGBTQ+ community, the bill’s language also “clearly encompasses discrimination against single mothers […] This bill is Indiana on steroids.”

The bill could also remove anti-discrimination legislation signed last year by Obama for LGBTQ+ federal contractors, and allow religious programs that receive federal grants (such as homeless shelters) to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.

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The resignation of the head of the US Office of Personnel Management in the wake of a staggering cyber attack by hackers thought to be operating in China leaves deep-seated cyber security problems at the agency and across the federal government unsolved.

The revelation is the latest to raise troubling questions about BGP, the core Internet routing mechanism that's almost entirely based on trust. Although the /24 block of affected addresses was small and inexplicably inactive at the time, the hijacking is already generating criticism not only of the world's continued dependence on the insecure framework, but also of the impropriety of Aruba, Hacking Team, and the Italian government for jointly making the fraud happen.

"BGP is a stupid, old, insecure core protocol of the Internet," Filippo Valsorda, an engineer on the CloudFlare Security Team, told Ars. "The affected IP class, 46.166.163.0/24, was unannounced (dead) at the time. However, the BGP trust game is delicate and critical and this reckless irresponsibility undermines the trust that the Internet survives on (and makes it sorely clear how it needs to move on from it)."

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In an era when the media whips itself into a frenzy over how to make things go viral, and marketers take their cues from big brands, a government entity has quickly and quietly become the darling of the internet.