Day: April 8, 2021

A Software Problem is Bricking Some Early Mustang Mach-Es

Charging is a common concern with electric vehicles. But some owners of the brand-new Mustang Mach-E have run into a peculiar problem: their electric SUVs won’t start even when the main battery pack is full. From a report: That’s because, The Verge has learned, there’s a problem with some early Mustang Mach-E SUVs that involves…


Amazon Warns Texas: Don’t Pass Bill That Would Drive Up Wind Power Costs

Fallout from Texas’ statewide power outages in February continues to spread. Today, the Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a bill that would require power producers to bear the costs of services that help keep the electrical grid stable. From a report: If the bill passes, it would “unfairly shift the cost of…


NASA Crew-2 ISS mission: How to watch SpaceX Dragon launch this month – CNET

Crew-2 is looking to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 22. …read more Source:: CNet


Honda ‘TrailSport’ name trademarked, likely previewing more rugged SUVs – Roadshow

Will this line perhaps respond to the recent reveal of the Subaru Wilderness trim? …read more Source:: CNet


Intel’s Dystopian Anti-Harassment AI Lets Users Opt In for ‘Some’ Racism

Intel is launching an artificial intelligence application that will recognize and redact hate speech in real-time. It’s called Bleep, and Intel hopes it’ll help with one of gaming’s oldest and most intractable problems — people can be real pieces of shit online. From a report: A video of the app shows that it will allow…


CNC Chainsaw

You can spend a lot of time trying to think of a clever title for a post about a CNC chainsaw. But you’ll finally realize, what else can you say but “CNC Chainsaw?” [Stuff Made Here] actually built such a beast, and you can watch it go in the video embedded below. A custom chainsaw…


New Adidas shoes can be customized with Lego pieces – CNET

Bricks for your kicks. Buyers had better snap to it, though. The $200 footwear sold out right away. …read more Source:: CNet


W3C Technical Architecture Group slaps down Google’s proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin

First Party Sets ‘harmful to the web in its current form’ A Google proposal which enables a web browser to treat a group of domains as one for privacy and security reasons has been opposed by the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Amazon’s Prime Day could happen as soon as June, report says – CNET

Amazon’s summertime shopping event could be moved up a month. …read more Source:: CNet


Hackers Scraped Data from 500 Million LinkedIn Users — and Have Posted it For Sale Online

Data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is for sale online, according to a report from Cyber News. A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed to Insider that there is a dataset of public information that was scraped from the platform. From a report: “While we’re still investigating this issue, the posted dataset appears to…