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#Google’s #earthquake early #warningsystem #failed to accurately alert people during #Turkey’s deadly earthquake in 2023. The system underestimated the magnitude of the earthquake, resulting in only 469 “Take Action” warnings sent out instead of the potential 10 million. Google researchers have since improved the system and it is now available in nearly 100 countries. bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx3 #tech #media #news

Women react at the site of a collapsed building in the aftermath of a major earthquake in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras in Turkey
www.bbc.comGoogle failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severityThe tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.

Speedway racing death: Coroner says police ‘destroyed’ evidence after Stephen Penn crash

Stephen Penn with his wife Vanessa Penn. Penn was wearing a lot of safety gear, including a helmet…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #away #because #cannot #Coroner #coronial #crash #Death #destroyed #determine #driver #evidence #failed #helmet #into #NewZealand #NZ #penn #penns #police #probe #racing #says #speedway #stephen #threw #whether
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alojapan.com/1323656/japanese- Japanese PM Ishiba has so far failed to resonate with voters #failed #far #has #Ishiba #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #PM #resonate #voters TOKYO — When Shigeru Ishiba ran for Japan’s prime minister in the autumn of 2024, some voters hoped that the quiet yet sharp debater, long dismissed as a fringe party member, could reform the struggling, scandal-ridden ruling party. However, as Ishiba heads into an increasingly tense uppe

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Time for Asean to tackle #scam trade
"in te case of #Cambodia, there's been willful ignorance of an industry tt's harming ordinary Khmer citizens & those in te wider region. #UNODC pointed out tt there's been no sustained #law #enforcement drive by #PhnomPenh since raids focused on #Sihanoukville in 2022. US TIP Report noted tt Cambodian #government #failed to investigate & hold accountable #officials involved in #trafficking crimes, incl'g those linked to #cyberscam ops"
bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

Bangkok Post · Time for Asean to tackle scam tradeBy Samady Ou

If you're considering #Plex as a #MediaServer I would advise you to avoid it like the plague, particularly if you're considering spending money on a subscription.

The recent "upgrade" was anything but an #upgrade, breaking numerous functions, seeing regression bugs, changes in functionality and compatibility for devices that were not previously announced, and seemingly no plan to resolve these issues once they presented themselves. With a huge influx of support issues on the forum and a significant amount of people reporting #CompleteFailure their response was not ownership or even acknowledgement and a pause of the rollout and/or roll-back to a working version was not even entertained. The only solution for many was to roll back to a previous version (if you could find the binaries) but then back end changes meant that subsequently #failed also leaving many with non-functional servers.

Support pages on their internet page are being edited or removed post-rollout to remove information about compatible hardware that no longer works after the update.

I would rank this rollout as one of the worst I have ever experienced and has cemented the fact that they do not care about #Support or good #Software distribution practices but instead will take your money and leave you with a completely unusable product and barely any support.