Can You Solve The Mystery Of A Chevy Silverado HD That Kept Blowing Fuse Blocks? Owners of old BMWs are no strangers to getting stranded and having to wait for a tow, but drift car driver Andrew May was caught off-guard when the Chevy Silverado 3500 HD that tows his BMW E36 mysteriously broke down. The pickup refused to start when Andrew and his family were at a drift competition in Englishtown,… Read more…

Massive facial recognition search engine now blocks searches for children’s faces Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergePimEyes, a public search engine that uses facial recognition to match online photos of people, has banned searches of minors over concerns it endangers children, reports The New York Times. At least, it should. PimEyes’ new detection system, which uses age detection AI to identify whether the person is a chi…

LPT: Right Click on Youtube Video and open in incognito or private tab when Youtube blocks your AD-Blocker. This is assuming you have your ad-blocker enabled in incognito or private. submitted by /u/cryptosperm

Moved 6 blocks away, now my GEICO 6 months premium increased by $400. I recently moved 6 blocks away. Went to update my address and now my GEICO 6 months premium increased by $400 because of “Changed Vehicle Location”. I called them to ask for more info on it and they basically said it was because of my zipcode change. I only moved 6 blocks away, same Brooklyn borough, not downtown to uptown, just 6 blocks away. T…

Travelling to Guatemala in March, for those of you who are from Guatemala or familiar with Guatemala, what is your opinion on current protests/road blocks? I understand that the outgoing government is protesting the validity of the election. New government is to start in January. Thank you for sharing your opinions. submitted by /u/Someoak

Why do closed captions put so it blocks the shows own subtitling? It’s so annoying! I always watch shows using subtitles. Currently I’m watching a show that jumps back and forth between English and French quite often. Whenever French is being spoken, the show provides its own subtitles but the closed captioning puts right over the top so the subtitles are covered up and unreadable. This is so incredibly frea…

JPMorgan’s UK digital bank blocks customers from buying crypto From Oct. 16, Chase UK customers will “no longer be able to make crypto transactions via debit card or by outgoing bank transfer.”

Judge Blocks Migrants From Former School, Questioning NYC’s Shelter Guarantee A lawsuit to dismantle a homeless shelter created for migrants in a residential neighborhood has implications for the city’s broader right-to-shelter guarantee.

Judge Blocks Sam Bankman-Fried’s Proposed Witnesses From Testifying Judge Lewis Kaplan, who’s overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, granted the U.S. Department of Justice’s motion to block all of the FTX founder’s proposed witnesses from testifying at his trial next month.

YouTube Blocks Russell Brand From Making Money Through Its Platform The comedian’s channel has over six million followers, but he will be unable to draw income from advertising around his videos.

Court blocks California’s online child safety law California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the CAADCA last year. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesA federal judge has granted a request to block the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA), a law that requires special data safeguards for underage users online. In a ruling issued today, Judge Beth Freeman granted…

Disney blocks ABC and ESPN from Charter Spectrum viewers The VergeDisney has blocked its channels from being accessed by the nearly 15 million subscribers to Charter’s Spectrum service, the second-largest cable TV provider in the US. The blackout means that viewers in major markets like New York and Los Angeles can’t access ABC, ESPN, FX, Freeform, National Geographic and a dozen other Disney-owned ch…

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The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe 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 Archive’s Wa…

Sources: Tigers’ Rodriguez blocks trade to L.A. Tigers ace Eduardo Rodriguez used his no-trade clause to veto a deal Tuesday and remain with Detroit, GM Scott Harris said. Sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan that the left-hander blocked a deal that was in place between the Tigers and Dodgers.

Federal Judge Blocks New Biden Asylum Policy Immigrant advocacy groups had challenged the administration’s decision to dramatically limit who is allowed to apply for asylum in the U.S.

LPT When getting off a train or going thru a doorway, keep walking even if you don’t know where you are going. Stopping to check your surroundings blocks everyone else behind you. submitted by /u/User348844

US Judge blocks Biden officials from contacting social media sites Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeA US federal judge ruled that a slew of Biden administration officials are prohibited from contacting social media companies about moderating posts protected by the First Amendment. Judge Terry A. Doughty wrote in a 155-page memorandum ruling that he believes the plaintiffs are likely to prove that federal…

Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws Photo Illustration by Adrien Fillon/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesPornhub is now blocking people in Mississippi and Virginia from visiting its website over laws that would require the service to verify their age. The company says it’s blocking users to protest unfair enforcement of these new laws, claiming that sites enforcing the new rules will lose…