180710996
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mprindle writes:
Battle Born batteries known for selling premium, made in the USA, Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries, have had multiple failure reports against there batteries. Failures including over heating, discoloration and loose terminals, melting of the battery plastics and battery disconnections. The main use cases have been home backup, solar storage and RV's.The issues have been seen on older batteries (2018) and units that were brand new at the time of testing.
Multiple reports have been posted of the issues with direct first hand problems from battery owners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3aySTut7Vs) as well as testing by YouTuber Will Prowse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP2yPY57Wjc), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qQYGLi4B8), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUtbnbLpvFk).
At this time Battle Born has denied any issues exist and from published documents have stated the failures are an intentional “safety device”, (https://www.irv2.com/threads/battleborn-battery-safety-issue.2179667/#post-23534001), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fD3yaRvp3o&pp=ygULd2lsbCBwcm93c2U%3D).
180398149
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mprindle writes:
"The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology."
177528005
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mprindle writes:
Nextcloud has been in an ongoing battle with Google over the tech giant revoking the all files permission from the Nextcloud Android App which prevent users from managing their files on their server. After a blog post and several tech sites reporting on the issue, "Google reached out to us [Nexcloud] and offered to restore the permission". Nextcloud is working on an app update and hopes to have it pushed out within a week.
175255377
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mprindle writes:
Per the article:
"Compromised data: Github projects, Gitlab Projects, SonarQube projects, Source code, hard coded credentials, Certificates, Customer SRCs, Cisco Confidential Documents, Jira tickets, API tokens, AWS Private buckets, Cisco Technology SRCs, Docker Builds, Azure Storage buckets, Private & Public keys, SSL Certificates, Cisco Premium Products & More!,"
174996779
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mprindle writes:
JerryRigEverything known for in-depth testing of phones and other devices has finished his test of the new $1,800 Pixel 9 Pro Fold. The device failed so poorly, one of the batteries started to overheat. He also noted that the footnotes say the device is rated IP68 yet the Sim tray is rated at IPx8.
140179406
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mprindle writes:
On Friday, Nintendo and Universal Studios Japan took the veil off a years-in-the-making project: the very first Nintendo-themed theme park, appropriately named Super Nintendo World. And who better to introduce the world to this life-sized walk through all things Mario than the character's creator himself, longtime Nintendo developer and designer Shigeru Miyamoto.
131836438
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mprindle writes:
It's the middle of 2020 and the USB-C standards are confusing even for the most technical person.
USB-C is billed as the solution for all our future cable needs, unifying power, and data delivery with display and audio connectivity. Ushering in an age of the one-size-fits-all cable. Despite the USB-C connector supplied as default in modern smartphones, the standard has, unfortunately, failed to live up to its early promises.
Even the seemingly most basic function of USB-C — powering devices — continues to be a mess of compatibility issues, conflicting proprietary standards, and a general lack of consumer information to guide purchasing decisions. The data speeds available over USB-C have also become increasingly convoluted. The problem is that the features supported by different USB-C devices aren’t clear, yet the defining principle of the USB-C standard makes consumers think everything should just work.
