AI-assisted Kindle jailbreak turns old e-reader into a great device

Developer Tim Blumberg used an AI agent (Astra) to jailbreak an old Kindle in about 60 minutes, turning it into a genuinely good e-reader—leading him to conclude that the problem was never the technology, but lazy device makers.

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