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The big picture: AI coding has unleashed a new wave of decompilations and jailbreaks , largely centered on video games. Modders cracked almost every PlayStation 5 firmware version a few weeks ago, and the Nintendo Switch 2 is next. The phenomenon could lead to a repeat of the original Switch's piracy problem, but Nintendo has already responded.

The Nintendo Switch 2's first public jailbreak is now in the wild . Unfortunately, anyone who hasn't already bought the coding tool SmileBASIC 4 for the Switch is out of luck, as it has already disappeared from the Nintendo eShop.

Researcher and modder Sammy Hajhamid successfully cracked Switch 2 firmware version 23.0.1, ran homebrew software, accessed most of the device's peripherals, and backed up save files.…