Month: August 2023
Ford’s Mustang Mach-E recall to prevent power failures is under investigation
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening a query on Ford’s response to a recall last year that affected almost 49,000 Mustang Mach-E vehicles, as reported by Automotive News. The June 2022 recall was issued due to a malfunction involving overheating of the electric SUV’s high-voltage contactors,…
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The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler
The New York Times has blocked OpenAI’s web crawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on the Internet…
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Tell every PC gamer you know: Dough, formerly Eve, is ready to issue refunds
Every time I write about Dough — the PC gaming monitor company formerly known as Eve — some people tell me to stop! They say Dough scammed them out of money or shipped their monitors too late to matter or ghosted their attempts to get customer support. Today, I’m here…
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X says it’s fixed the bug that broke links and images in pre-December 2014 tweets
Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014, either with an image or a link that had been shortened by Twitter. A post by Tom Coates alerted many people to the problem and he noted…
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Amazon Fire TV reorganizes its free channels for easier access in new update
Amazon is tidying up its Fire TV Channels by launching a new app bundling the over 400 content providers on the platform into one convenient location. The update is currently making its way to “smart TVs and streaming media players” that support Amazon Fire TV in the United States. The…
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Webb Space Telescope captures the Ring Nebula in mesmerizing detail
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured extraordinarily detailed images published today of the Ring Nebula. The gaseous cloud, also called M57 and NGC 6720, contains 20,000 dense globules rich in molecular hydrogen. It sits about 2,500 light years away from Earth. The first image (above) was taken with the…
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