Failing

CLIMATEWIRE | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Now the real work starts.The first few days of the COP28 climate conference featured so many lofty declarations and flashy promises that you’d be forgiven for asking what delegates are still doing here. But the main negotiations have only just gotten underway.At the core of this year’s summit sits something called the “Global Stocktake,” often abbreviated to GST — a nondescript name that conceals its vital role in international climate efforts.In short, it’s about drawing up a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new report that grades all the countries of the world on their respect for human rights paints a grim picture of human rights practices in the 21st century. Produced by the Global RIghts Project (GRIP), a research team based in the University of Rhode Island's Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, the report…

Instead of being able to fight and deter the hackers, US authorities and water treatment plants have been forced to switch off their automated systems and do everything manually Iranian-backed hackers have been going after…

“Jonathan Majors’ assault case is getting Marvel bad press,” “James Gunn’s departure and the emergence of DCU has weakened the MCU,” or “The Marvels negated the good Loki did.” We can keep blaming a new point every time for Marvel’s speedy decline, but its ability to grab success and keep it for 10 long years is the kindling stoking up this particular fire. After many failed attempts, Marvel found the beginning of the formally elusive fame with Iron Man in 2008 and it stuck around until Avengers: Endgame and Far From…

X’s substandard content moderation has come into even sharper relief with the explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza over the past five weeks. In fact, a new study suggests that the platform is unable or unwilling to delete posts that defy its own community rules on hate and misinformation.The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) says it flagged 200 tweets concerning the Israel-Gaza conflict that clearly violated X’s own rules prohibiting racist slurs, dehumanization, and hateful imagery. A week after…

A Russian court on Tuesday imposed a fine of 15 million roubles ($164,000) on Alphabet-owned Google for refusal to store Russian users’ data on servers in Russia.…

There is now a possible explanation behind the SanDisk SSD failures that have been an ongoing issue throughout most of 2023. The issue first gained notice on Reddit as users complained of failing SSDs and the loss of data. The problem gained more attention when SanDisk’s parent company, Western Digital, became subject to several class=action lawsuits in August, according to Ars Technica. Phil Nickinson/Digital Trends / Digital Trends However, reports of the failures began as early as May 2023. While SanDisk initially…

XDefiant, Ubisoft's upcoming cross-over arena shooter, still does not have a solid release date and now we know why. In a blog post, producer Mark Rubin confirmed that the game failed its console certification with PlayStation and Xbox, and therefore has been delayed from its original American summer window. It is now eyeing a release sometime between mid-September to the middle of October, depending on any required day-one patches. It's worth mentioning that not passing a certification test is incredibly common for…

Last month, an interview with Twitter cofounder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, was posted online, where he claimed that the Indian government threatened the microblogging platform that it will shut down its offices in India and carry out raids if they did not block accounts that were critical of the government during the farmers' protest. On Friday, July 21, the Central government accepted sending a notice to Twitter, warning it of ‘significant consequences' after the social media company failed to block 167 of the 3,750…

VanMoof’s current financial woes can ironically be traced back to the company’s forward thinking and innovative designs. But now that future for these costly and complicated e-bikes is uncertain while the brand teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, other e-bike companies are coming up with equally innovative solutions for them. We reported earlier this week that VanMoof, a leading Dutch e-bike maker, had stopped taking orders on its site. At the time the company put up a facade that all was well…