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Ether is the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market value.Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAnother controversial cryptocurrency is causing havoc in the digital asset market — and this time, it's not a stablecoin.Staked ether, or stETH, is a token that's supposed to be worth the same as ether. But for the past few weeks, it has been trading at a widening discount to the second-biggest cryptocurrency, fanning the flames of a liquidity crisis in the crypto market.On Friday, stETH fell as low as 0.92 ETH,…

If you own a Brompton folding electric bicycle sold between May 2019 and March 2022 you should stop riding it immediately. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) agency in the US, ten owners of Brompton e-bikes have reported objects getting trapped between the mudguard and front tire causing the wheel to lockup and crash. So far, this has resulted in two hospitalizations and nine injuries including “head and facial impact, broken bones, shoulder dislocation, bruising, and chipped teeth.” Owners of…

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May were 50 percent higher than during the pre-industrial era, reaching levels not seen on Earth for about 4 million years, the main US climate agency said on Friday.  Global warming caused by humans, particularly through the production of electricity using fossil fuels, transport, the production of cement, or even deforestation, is responsible for the new high, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.May is usually the month with the highest…

Getty ImagesJust a day after Microsoft announced its new Entra cloud identity services portfolio, one of Entra's core products suffered wobbly performance for more than 12 hours. Microsoft warned that users of its identity service Azure Active Directory (AD), as well as several downstream Azure services, could have received "missed or misfired alerts". That's potentially a headache for customers who rely on Azure AD for controlling employee access to Office 365 and other apps. Customers may have also had problems…

Netflix previously announced plans to prevent people from sharing their passwords with people who aren't in their household and the streamer is already testing that with users in Peru and a handful of other countries. But that pilot program is causing confusion, according to a new report. As Netflix works to try and make money where it previously wasn't, it's now warning people in Peru that they need to pay extra if they want to continue accessing it. The pilot allows people to pay $2.99 per month and add people to their…

Sony on Thursday announced that it has fixed a "technical error" that caused users to pay more than expected for upgrading to one of the new PlayStation Plus tiers. The issue came into notice shortly after the rollout of the new PlayStation Plus service tiers in select Asian markets earlier this week. Some users complained that they were forced to pay an additional charge for upgrading to any of the new tiers if they had earlier purchased the PlayStation Plus service at a discount.The official PlayStation support account…

LG devices on T-Mobile may have experienced a serious hiccup towards the end of the weekend. A backend change caused LG devices to display a persistent error that caused “LG IMS” to crash without ability to connect to cellular services. The following error message above continued to show, even after being dismissed, with little time to perform other actions between error messages. Unfortunately, LG IMS has stopped. The good news is that a resolution has been issued. Anyone with an LG device on T-Mobile experiencing…

Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen could cause more damage than they actually help. For years, many have relied on drugs like ibuprofen to help fight inflammation. However, a new study posits that these drugs could cause pain to stick around longer. Anti-inflammatory drugs may slow your body’s ability to heal Pill bottles containing various prescription drugs are on a table. Image source: Eric Hood/Adobe When many of us sprain our ankles, get a headache, or strain a muscle, it’s easy to reach for the…

The Minecraft servers appear to have gone down, leaving thousands of fans unable to play online. The Minecraft server status makes grim reading for fans, who have complained about not being able to access Java Edition. Independent website Down Detector has received thousands of reports that Minecraft isn't working.The outage tracker monitors social mentions around certain topics to detect when services go down across the world.The Down Detector outage map shows that the Minecraft issues are mainly affecting users in the…

As Russia reels from economic sanctions by the West, the country's president warns that the economic fallout will have global repercussions. Putin says Russia, one of the world's largest wheat exporters, is on track to collect a potentially record harvest this year.…