There’s a reason why the $130 Quest 3 Elite Strap with Battery is listed as out of stock on Meta’s store — the company has temporarily paused sales of the accessory after widespread reports of buggy charging behavior. RoadtoVR reports that it’s having to manufacture new straps to fix the issues.
If your device is affected, try reaching out to Meta Support for a replacement.
Beyond a December 5th date for its Chinese launch, OnePlus is being coy about releases in other markets. But there’s evidence that the international launch will take place on January 24th, Android Police reports. Terms and conditions for a related giveaway say it’ll run until January 23rd, while a second page notes it’ll run until “the day before OnePlus 12 launch event.”
After Half-Life’s 25th anniversary documentary resurfaced an old bug where an alien tentacle’s animation didn’t quite line up with the scientist it was supposedly carrying, Valve has finally issued a patch to fix it. If you want to know more, Valve programmer Ben Burbank wrote a thread on Mastodon about the difficulties fixing it. IGN has all the details.
Well that was quick. Less than 24 hours after Dbrand announced it was suing the company over alleged stolen designs, Casetify has delisted the offending products from its online store. Attempting to access the link to the Inside Out collection now redirects to a list of its best selling phone cases.
But don’t worry, here’s a Wayback Machine archive of the lineup.
A “trap street” is a fake element added to a map to help its maker catch anyone plagiarizing the work. Here’s a fun video about it.
I was reminded of this when reading about Dbrand’s lawsuit against Casetify for allegedly copying its teardown skins and cases. Turns out Dbrand likes to include easter eggs in its designs, which for whatever reason also appear on Casetify’s models.
This Wall Street Journal article about the recent drama at OpenAI contains an amazing anecdote. Apparently an employee at AI rival Anthropic thought it’d be funny to send “thousands of paper clips in the shape of OpenAI’s logo” as a prank, in reference to the infamous paperclip maximizer thought experiment.
Weirdly, I think OpenAI’s logo makes for a great paperclip design. Should we be worried?
“Whatever we have, you now have,” is how CEO Elon Musk described the documents released for the 15-year-old Roadster. While that might be overstating it, the Roadster page includes service, parts, and owners manuals; wiring schematics; and R&D documents on the car’s battery monitor board, vehicle display system, and HVAC controller. A trove of useful information for owners of the 2,450 Roadsters sold.
[service.tesla.com]
Reuters is reporting that EU regulators will unconditionally approve the $1.4 billion deal, after previously expressing concerns that it could let Amazon restrict competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market and give the e-commerce giant access to an unfair amount of user data. The deal was approved by the UK’s antitrust regulator in June.
