Month: November 2026

TSMC’s long-rumored 1nm fab now appears to be gravitating toward Shalun in Tainan. Taiwanese officials are pointing to the new Shalun science park, near the Southern Taiwan Science Park (Nanke), as the most likely home for TSMC’s A10-era production.

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TSMC still hasn’t confirmed the exact site, but this no longer looks like loose speculation. According to Taiwanese officials, feasibility work and resource planning are finished, phase two of the environmental review is in progress, and the plant is expected to take shape as a large giga-fab tied to Taiwan’s Greater Southern New Silicon Valley Promotion Plan and its southern semiconductor corridor.

If you follow CPUs, GPUs, consoles, or laptops, this matters. The Shalun park is being planned for more than just 1nm, and it lines up with TSMC’s roadmap: TSMC’s A14 is 1.4nm, TSMC’s A10 is 1nm, A14 mass production is targeted for around 2028, sub-1nm trials could follow in 2029, and A12 adds backside power delivery.

As an early sign of where future hardware is headed, this is a big one. A move to 1nm should bring faster, more efficient chips, even with scaling limits closing in, new materials and transistor designs still in play, and fab costs of roughly $32 billion making the whole thing brutally hard.

You can also expect the Shalun site to draw in robotics, optoelectronics, precision machinery, biotech, and aerospace suppliers, while Samsung, Rapidus, and governments in the US, Japan, and South Korea race toward the same frontier.

Nintendo’s latest earnings release points to a softer second fiscal quarter. Operating profit fell 16% from a year earlier to 73.9 billion yen, or about $467 million.

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Revenue dropped 15%. Nintendo said lower sales were the main reason, and Switch 2 hardware was the biggest drag, with unit sales down 41% to 2.67 million. The company had already linked the broader U.S. price increase to $499.99 to higher memory chip costs. Now, with sales slowing, demand is starting to look like the real test.

There were some better numbers in the report too. Nintendo said first-half Switch 2 software sales rose 18.8%, helped by Splatoon Raiders and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave. Both sold more than 1 million copies. Digital sales also grew, as did revenue from mobile and IP-related business.

If you follow Nintendo closely, that’s the part to keep an eye on. The weakness looks more concentrated in consoles than in what players are spending overall. Nintendo left its full-year outlook unchanged and is still leaning on first-party games, a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and broader IP projects, including films, to lift the second half.

You can read the full results in Nintendo’s latest earnings release.

ns2jb, a tethered, software-only jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2, has now been shown running on Nintendo’s new console, opening the door to homebrew and temporary game mods.

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Security researcher Sammy Hajhamid, better known as pepsipu, reportedly paired OpenAI Codex with a setup that fed inputs to Switch 2 hardware, monitored the display, and rebooted the system after crashes. The demo gives a clear look at where AI tools can help with the tedious parts of exploit work: logging faults, checking memory behavior, refining payloads, and narrowing down where a vulnerability actually sits.

The catch is that the setup comes with real limits. It depends on SmileBASIC 4, a backward-compatible original Nintendo Switch app, along with extra equipment, access to the app, and firmware that still supports it, so this isn’t a one-click jailbreak for every Nintendo Switch 2 owner.

Still, if you follow console security, this one is hard to ignore. A Mario Kart World demo swapped in Peter Griffin and Cinnamoroll, and that same access can also enable homebrew, file access, and game dumping.

Nintendo has reportedly pulled SmileBASIC 4 from the Nintendo eShop. Sony keeps patching PlayStation 5 (PS5) holes, and Microsoft is facing a faster cycle too, since the same tooling also speeds up decompilation, unofficial ports, and cross-platform mashups.

For now, this only works on certain Nintendo Switch 2 setups. Researchers are still doing the hard part, but the barrier to entry is dropping and iteration is getting faster.

Rockstar Games quietly put up a new Grand Theft Auto 6 Launch Gallery on November 5, 2026, dropping nearly 40 official screenshots just two weeks before Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It’s one of the studio’s biggest official media dumps in months, especially after years of hype, delays, and all that 2027 talk, but most of these new images are still pretty cinematic, so they sell mood and detail more than they show actual gameplay.

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If you’re looking for firmer gameplay clues, Rockstar’s August reveal is still the better place to start, along with Edge magazine’s recent coverage, which, by Edge’s account, included 12 images and details pulled from a 90-minute hands-off presentation.

The gallery puts Jason and Lucia right in the middle of it, adds more supporting characters, and opens up the view a bit wider across Vice City, Leonida, the Grassrivers, and the Leonida Keys.

Across the screenshots, you get clubs, backroom conversations, flashy cars, sticky coastlines, and swamp country, all of it leaning hard into that glamorous-crime-meets-weird-Florida vibe.

Rockstar is still rolling out Grand Theft Auto 6 with a lot of caution after the leaks tied to “Cyberleek,” and the latest reports point to pre-loading starting November 10, an install size of about 212 GB, a PC version arriving later, and something in the range of $750 million in pre-orders.

If you’re in full countdown mode, it’s worth a look on Rockstar Games’ website and social channels.

That makes the new Launch Gallery a useful companion to the fake gameplay clips that went viral earlier: where those videos traded on speculation, Rockstar’s screenshots now give the countdown a much firmer visual footing. They still stop short of full gameplay, but they do widen the picture of Vice City and its surrounding regions, which is exactly why the earlier clip frenzy feels even more misleading in hindsight.