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Today's Technology News

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.

Read more: Ars Technica

Are You Using ChatGPT in Your School or University? We Want to Hear About It.

We're asking educators and students how they are using new A.I. chatbots for teaching and coursework.

Read more: The New York Times

The fight over what's real (and what's not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok

TikTok's dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don't know what's going on. Some doctors feel the same about them.

Read more: The Verge

Viome raises $86.5M in Series C funding

Viome, a microbiome startup that sells supplements based on AI-based assessments of customers' microbiomes, raised $86.5M in Series C funding. This brings their total funding to $175M.

Read more: TechCrunch