Amazon ending – Amazon is ending support for older Kindles, Microsoft plans to remove the “Together” feature in Teams on June 30, and Tesla’s solar roof tiles face low reported installation numbers—while Linux 7.1-rc4 and a new Halupedia project add more fuel to the week’s ga
After 48 hours of talks and badge hacks at Hackaday Europe in Lecco. Italy. the community’s energy doesn’t exactly switch off—at least not for tech watchers.. The next few days come with their own set of changes. from older e-readers losing Amazon’s official support to a Teams feature disappearing on a specific date.
The first deadline is for Kindle owners. Amazon will officially be ending support for older Kindles in a few days, with May 20th marked as the cutoff. After that date, any of Amazon’s e-readers introduced before 2012 will no longer be supported for book purchases.
For users, the consequence is narrower than it sounds: the older devices won’t be able to buy digital books from Amazon, but they can still be used offline. The advice in circulation is to move content management elsewhere, with Calibre singled out as a way to load books from other sources.
There’s also a sharper option being discussed—using jailbreaking to install KOReader—framed as a way to keep the device useful even as official support ends.. The tone around it is pragmatic: a surge of unsupported Kindles drawing attention to those alternative projects is presented as an acceptable tradeoff.
Microsoft’s own change is dated just as plainly.. The “Together” feature in Teams is scheduled to be removed on June 30th.. The feature. added during the pandemic. was designed to make people in a call appear seated together in a virtual conference room.. The feature’s departure is being treated as something that likely won’t be missed in 2026. even as the original framing points back to the era when remote work made everything feel a bit stranger.
Elsewhere, Electrek says Tesla has all but given up on its once-promising solar roof tiles. The company hasn’t stated how many installations it has completed since the camouflaged panels hit the market in 2016. Still, estimates suggest the number may be as low as 3,000.
Price is named as the biggest factor behind that struggle: the cost of a full roof of Tesla’s tiles is described as running into the six-figure range, while traditional panels are getting cheaper year over year.
The software side of the week brings a more familiar kind of release.. Today also marks the release of Linux 7.1-rc4.. For those running release candidate kernels. it comes with a set of changes summarized by Phoronix. including improvements to hardware support—along with a fix for the Framework Laptop 13 Pro—security fixes. and new guidance about the use of AI-generated code.
And if you’d rather not chase deadlines or patches, there’s Halupedia, described through its own GitHub page.. It calls itself “An infinite. hallucinated encyclopedia”: every link goes to an entry that doesn’t exist yet until it’s clicked. at which point an LLM writes it on the spot in the deadpan style of a 19th-century scholarly press.. Examples include “The Ministry of Slightly Wrong Maps” and “The Ministry of Terribly Wrong Maps.”
The story lines keep circling a shared pattern: defined end dates for older consumer tech sit next to releases and experiments that change how people interact with software—May 20 for older Kindles. June 30 for Teams’ “Together. ” and then Linux 7.1-rc4 alongside a deliberately fictional encyclopedia that appears only after you click.
For anyone in the mood to keep the loop going, the note at the end invites readers to send items they think would fit the weekly Links column—an open door for whatever the next wave of software, security, gadgets, and digital curiosities turns out to be.
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