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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.

Sam Bankman-Fried Goes to Jail, Back to School With A.I. and A Self-Driving Car Update

Sam Bankman-Fried, the prominent crypto figure, finds himself back in jail. To read more about this and other technology news, you can visit here..

Baldur's Gate 3 on the Steam Deck plays better than it looks

Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge

Baldur's Gate 3 is a delight on Steam Deck — even though I sometimes can't tell what's going on.

I suspected that might be the case going in. Everything I had seen about Baldur's Gate 3 before I downloaded it promised a vast, sprawling adventure, and all the streams of the game I watched on Twitch featured incredibly detailed characters and worlds. I'm sure most of those streamers were running the game on top-of-the-line rigs. I suspected that the Steam Deck, which recently had some troubles with The Last of Us Part I, might not be the best place for me to play Larian Studios' new RPG.

That said, the game just looked like so much fun, and since it won't be coming to PS5 until September, I really wanted to find a way to play it sooner.

The European Commission plans to make a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm's bid to acquire Israel-based fabless chipmaker Autotalks

The European Commission plans to make a regulatory assessment of Qualcomm's bid to acquire Israel-based fabless chipmaker Autotalks, first announced in May 2023. For more detailed information, you can read here.