The app for Amazon’s Blink security cameras is experiencing an issue that’s preventing users from accessing their cameras, but your recordings and notifications are not affected, Amazon spokesperson Emma Daniels tells The Verge. Users on Amazon’s general Blink support forum and on the Blink Cameras subreddit have been reporting issues accessing the app, with many running into a vague error with a 503 status code.In a thread on Reddit with more than 150 comments, users from all over the US, including California, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, are reporting seeing the 503 error. That thread was first posted at 4:54PM ET. Amazon’s support forum has multiple threads flagging the 503 error, with threads starting to pop up about two hours ago.My colleague Jen Tuohy is also having problems logging into the Blink app. I don’t own any Blink cameras, but when I downloaded the app and tried to make an account, the app showed me an error message with a 403 status code. (And I’m apparently not the new user dealing with problems.)“We’re aware of an issue affecting Blink customers’ ability to use the Blink app, and are working diligently on a fix,” Daniels says. “Customers should continue to check their app for updates.” The Blink SmartHome Alexa skill may also be impacted by the issue, according to Daniels.

If there's anything AI is good at, it's sorting through a ton of data and figuring out what to do with it. You don't have to sift through it yourself; just hand it over to your AI assistant like it's some sort of intern and let it do all the heavy lifting for you.

Printers are a weird kind of beast. They were unusual back in the '90s, and they remain somewhat unusual today. They jam, they have super expensive ink, and if they break somehow, you're pretty much out of luck.

So, I just played Cronos: The New Dawn over the last weekend, and after staying tensed up throu8ghout its 20-hour campaign, I can safely say that it is definitely one of the best survival-horror games we've gotten in this generation. I may have my fair share of complaints from the current console generation, but a lack of ambitious survival horror AAA games isn't one of them. Still, it isn't as if they all succeeded, which is where the other elephant in the room comes in.

Before I switched to a Mac as my primary computer, I had made my Windows 11 PC a lot more useful by using Flow Launcher. And when I settled in on macOS, I found Raycast, which is a similar launch bar that takes everything to the next level. Raycast quickly became my absolute favorite launcher, and when a beta was announced for Windows, I couldn't wait.

After building my home lab and constantly arming it with new devices, I’ve come to a few realizations. The biggest one is that you don’t need to spend a ton of money on new nodes – and this fact holds true for Network-Attached Storage servers as well. In fact, I’ve been using some budget-friendly devices like the LincStation N2 as my storage rigs, and they work a lot better than I initially anticipated.

You probably know that enabling XMP or EXPO after building a new PC is essential to getting the most out of your RAM. XMP/EXPO isn't enabled by default, so there are extra steps to achieve the frequency mentioned on the packaging. While this sounds simple enough, using the fastest XMP or EXPO profile you see in your BIOS/UEFI might not always be the smartest move. In case you didn't know, your memory kit has more than one XMP/EXPO profile, and, in some cases, using something other than the fastest one might actually be better.

This is one of those things where once you experience it, you can't go back to something different. This LG monitor packs everything you need, with impressive colors, performance, and it looks absolutely fantastic sitting on a desk. While its original $1,600 price tag is eye-watering, the stellar discount now offered through Amazon makes it within the realm of reality. You can now score the $703 discount if you're quick, as it falls to its best price at just $897.

I'll admit it; I am awful at drawing with Etch-a-Sketches. I had one as a kid, and I'd always have grand visions of what to draw, only for my ideas to come crashing down when I realised that drawing anything more complicated than a square was a mammoth undertaking. And don't forget that you couldn't undo any mistakes you made; once you messed up, you had to shake the Etch-a-Sketch and do it all over again from scratch.

Zotero has been in my productivity toolkit for a while now, and I probably won’t ditch it any time soon; it’s the easiest way to wrangle resources without getting overwhelmed. As good as it is for storing information, it’s not quite designed for thinking or putting that information to use. You usually end up with this library of well-organized resources that still feels flat. Sure, there are features like tags and folders, but you don’t actually see the connections between sources, and even your own notes don’t rise to the surface in Zotero.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks during an Election Threats Task Force meeting at the Justice Department on September 4, 2024. After successfully manipulating Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and eventually failing to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, President Donald Trump has named his next target for retribution: Microsoft head of global affairs Lisa Monaco. He’s calling for her to be fired. On Truth Social, Trump claims that Monaco, who just took the job in May and only announced publicly a month ago, is “corrupt,” “deranged,” “a menace to U.S. national security,” and other forms of badmouthing, but it seems her biggest crime in Trump’s eyes is having worked as the 39th Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President Biden and AG Merrick Garland. Garland was in charge of the federal prosecution of Trump. Trump writes that he’s already stripped Monaco of security clearances, but suggests that her role at Microsoft now lets her access “Highly Sensitive Information.”It’s not clear why Trump took this moment to go after Monaco, but it’s possible he’s just now becoming aware of her Microsoft role. CNBC notes that Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo posted about Monaco’s new job just last night. Microsoft has not exactly been in Trump’s crosshairs, as CEO Satya Nadella has continued to kiss the ring, but yesterday, the company did finally reduce the scope of its cooperation with the Israeli military as it performs mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. Microsoft had been firing workers who protested and occupied its president’s office. Microsoft was also probably not happy about the new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas.Microsoft declined to comment on this story to The Verge.

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