If you were a Verizon customer or wanted to play a PS5 game in the evening, Monday was tough. Verizon mobile customers reported first interruptions Monday in the US. Around 9:30 a.m. ET, hundreds of thousands of users reported problems with their mobile service on Downdetector. Reports reached almost 105,000 by 11:20 am. Problems include not being able to send texts and no direct cell service. The issue was on the East Coast and the Midwest. The carrier did not say what caused the problem. The FCC said it was “working to determine the cause and extent of these service disruptions.”
Hours later, the PlayStation Network was seriously alive issueskicking people out of their matches and hacking online games all over the world. (Yes, that’s bigger than the Midwest and East Coast.) Users couldn’t log in to their PS5, PS4, PS Vita, and PS3 or do account maintenance online. Streaming functionality has also been taken offline. Services were back online in early October. We are also checking the reason with Sony.
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The company must also submit regular reports.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fined Cruise, GM’s self-driving car division, $1.5 million. The penalty was imposed for failing to take into account key details of an October 2023 accident in which one of the company’s autonomous vehicles struck and dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco. Cruise is initially fined for filing incomplete reports, but it’s worse than that. During meetings with San Francisco City Hall, NHTSA, DMV and other officials on Oct. 3, executives first showed video of the crash. However, the video stream was “interrupted by internet connectivity issues” which obscured the part where the car dragged the victim. The executives who were reported to be aware of the drag in the report did not mention this important detail verbally.
NHTSA wants Cruise to submit a corrective action plan, which includes the total number of vehicles it drives, the number of miles it drives and whether it operates without a driver, among others. It also includes transactions etc. should summarize the affected software updates. Finally, Cruise will be required to meet quarterly with NHTSA to discuss and review these reports.
He claims that Samsung’s Auto Blocker makes it difficult to install his app store.
Epic loves a courtroom battle. Its next competitors are Samsung and Google. (Yes, already Epic v. Google last December, finding that Google has an illegal monopoly over app distribution and in-app payment services.) Epic Games claims that Samsung’s Auto Blocker feature prevents users from installing the Epic Games Store on the latest Samsung devices. makes it difficult. This is because Samsung has now enabled Auto Blocker, which by default only allows app installs from the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store. To be honest, it’s quite laborious to switch off. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney even suggests that Google and Samsung are working together, although he admits that there is no concrete evidence for this claim.
