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SanDisk Extreme SSDs are "worthless," multiple lawsuits against WD say
On Thursday, two more lawsuits were filed against Western Digital over its SanDisk Extreme series and My Passport portable SSDs. That brings the number of class-action complaints filed against Western Digital to three in two days.
In May, Ars Technica reported about customer complaints that claimed SanDisk Extreme SSDs were abruptly wiping data and becoming unmountable. Ars senior editor Lee Hutchinson also experienced this problem with two Extreme SSDs. Western Digital, which owns SanDisk, released a firmware update in late May, saying that currently shipping products weren't impacted. But the company didn't mention customer complaints of lost data, only that drives could "unexpectedly disconnect from a computer."
Further, last week The Verge claimed a replacement drive it received after the firmware update still wiped its data and became unreadable, and there are some complaints on Reddit pointing to recent problems with Extreme drives.
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How to set up parental controls on your Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S
If you've treated the kids in your household to an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, you'll of course want them to have fun — but you'll also want to put limits on what they can do on the console, especially if they're younger children.
These consoles are built with all the necessary options for adding child profiles and managing what those profiles can do. The features all tie into a larger Microsoft Family Safety feature that works across multiple devices, and it's free to use as part of your existing Microsoft (and Xbox) account.
The level of detail you can go into is impressive, right down to which specific websites your child can look at. If you don't want to configure every option individually, there are preset profiles you can...
Viome, a microbiome startup, raises $86.5M Series C
Viome, a company that sells supplements to customers based on AI-based assessments of their microbiomes, has raised an $86.5M Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $175M. The research on the human microbiome has shown the importance of microorganism communities that live in different parts of the body. To read more about this, visit TechCrunch.
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