The ongoing fallout from yesterday’s PHP vulnerability and patching continues to dominate headlines, with AI credited for both discovering the serious 20-year-old flaw, and for exploiting it in the moments after the patch was released. Now, word is out that the Nintendo Switch 2 has been jailbroken just 16 months after its original launch, again thanks to AI.

WCCF Tech reports that the new exploit is based on a discovery made back in July , a so-called “userland exploit,” which allowed external code to be run within a specific app or game. That was a significant dent in Nintendo’s defenses, but not yet a way to allow piracy. However, this latest discovery takes things a stage further, with an in-software hack now allowing users to mod games, install homebrew (and therefore potentially pirated games), and download save files.…