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Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on content moderation: report

Fast Company Tech

X owner Elon Musk was privately messaging with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman while also putting public pressure on the social media company’s content moderation efforts, The Verge reported Thursday. Two months ago, several Reddit subreddits started to block links to X in protest of Musk appearing to give the Nazi salute.

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Is Reddit down? Site experiences March 27 outage

Mashable Tech

Reddit ran into some problems on Thursday. A Reddit outage started roughly between 3 and 4 p.m. Reddit is not working for me on either a web browser or the mobile app at the time of writing. ET on Thursday and is currently ongoing at the time of publication.

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Oops: Google says it might have deleted your Maps Timeline data

Ars Technica

Users started piping up over the past several weeks, posting on the Google support forums , Reddit , and other social media that their treasured Timeline data had gone missing. Google has been investigating the problem, and the news isn't good. You can probably see where this is going.

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GameStop stock halts trading after Reddit drama

The Verge

Trading in stock of video game retailer GameStop (GME) was halted briefly Friday, as it soared more than 70 percent, due partly to the enthusiastic support of a group of Reddit day traders. GameStop’s Reddit-related surge triggered a circuit breaker stoppage when it rose 69 percent (nice) on Friday around 12:45PM ET.

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Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

Ars Technica

Here we (maybe) go again: Reports from a handful of early adopters of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card are reporting that their power cables are melting (so far, there's at least one report on YouTube and one on Reddit , as reported by The Verge).

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AMD says to follow Reddit's advice if you've got USB connectivity issues

TechSpot

From the public posts on Reddit, it’s only possible for us to paint a picture of the problem in the broadest strokes: in systems pairing 500-series motherboards with 5000-series or 3000-series Ryzen. For the past two weeks, AMD has been collecting user reports to clear up some of the ambiguity.

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Google apologizes for Chromecast outage and promises a fix

Engadget

Google says the cause of the problem has been identified but didnt reveal any specifics. One Reddit user claims to have found the problem that caused the devices to lose functionality, noting that it was most definitely due to the certificate baked into the Chromecast having expired. RIP Chromecast.

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