Meta has disabled Apple Intelligence features across its iOS applications, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads, according to Brazilian tech blog Sorcererhat Tech. The block affects Writing Tools, which enable text creation and editing via Apple’s AI, as well as Genmoji generation. Users cannot access these features via the standard text field interface in Meta apps. Instagram Stories have also lost previously available keyboard stickers and Memoji functionality.
While Meta hasn’t explained the decision, it likely aims to drive users toward Meta AI, its own artificial intelligence service that offers similar text and image generation capabilities. The move follows failed negotiations between Apple and Meta regarding Llama integration into Apple Intelligence, which reportedly collapsed over privacy disagreements. The companies also maintain ongoing disputes regarding App Store policies.
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The critically acclaimed 2002 film 28 Days Later is often credited with sparking the 21st-century revival of the zombie genre. Director Danny Boyle is back with more zombie-virus dystopian horror in his new film set in the same fictional world, 28 Years Later—not so much a direct sequel but the start of a new planned trilogy.
(Some spoilers for 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later below.)
In 28 Days Later, a highly contagious “Rage Virus” is accidentally released from a lab in Cambridge, England. Those infected turn into violent, mindless monsters who brutally attack the uninfected—so-called “fast zombies.” Transmitted by bites, scratches, or even just by getting a drop of infected blood in one’s mouth, the virus spreads rapidly, effectively collapsing society. A bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma 28 days later to find London mostly deserted, apart from a handful of survivors fleeing the infected hordes, and joins them in the pursuit of safety. Jim (barely) survives, and we see zombies dying of starvation in the streets during the denouement.
A federal judge has ruled that Google is a monopolist in online advertising. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said the company broke the law to maintain its ad tech dominance.
“In addition to depriving rivals of the ability to compete, this exclusionary conduct substantially harmed Google’s publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web,” the judge said.
The case stemmed from a January 2023 lawsuit from the US Justice Department and eight states. They accused Google of illegally monopolizing the ad market and using that power to charge more and take a higher portion of sales.
The decision follows another in August, when a federal judge ruled that Google monopolizes online search. Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in 2024 that the company “is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” Judge Mehta is considering a DOJ request to break up the company based on that ruling.
Now, Judge Brinkema will face a similar decision about the nearly $1.9 trillion company’s dominance in advertising. The DOJ’s lawsuit already asked the court to make Google sell portions of its ad tech business. Much of the company’s future will rest on what those two judges decide in the coming months.
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Looking for your next bike, a bike for your child or for someone special in your life? Buying second-hand from online marketplaces is a great way to save some cash, but it isn’t without its pitfalls.
That’s where Halfords comes in.
From mountain bikes to commuters, and kids’ bikes to adult road bikes, Halfords offers a trade-in service for its bikes, which means you can buy many of the current and former models second-hand.
You just need to head to the Halfords website to check out some of the current deals on bikes from Boardman, Carrera and Apollo.
We’ve highlighted some of the top offers below, as well as running through why a second-hand bike could be a great option for you. Halfords also has an Easter sale on right now, with dozens of cycling deals.
There are multiple benefits to buying a second-hand bike, and number one has to be the cost savings – you really can grab a bargain.
Second-hand bikes enable you to up your game in terms of bike frame and component choices, without having to shell out more than you’re willing to spend on a new bike.
Or you could opt for a similar level of bike as new, but have some spare cash left over for accessories such as a helmet, lock and mudguards.
Buying second-hand is also a more environmentally-friendly choice, so you can feel virtuous while you’re pedalling less waste into landfill, and saving an estimated 157.7kg CO2 emissions.
You can also enjoy peace of mind with the Halfords Bike Xchange scheme, which includes:
Scoring an impressive 4.5 in our BikeRadar review, the Boardman SLR 8.9 was great value new, but even better second-hand, saving nearly 30 per cent on the RRP.
The carbon fibre frame and fork is built up with an 11-speed Shimano 105 groupset, Tektro R315 rim brakes, Boardman wheels and Vittoria Zaffiro tyres.
With a B grading, the bike only has light cosmetic wear or replacement parts, so it’ll feel nearly new.
Fancy giving gravel riding a go but want to grab a bargain to get started?
Second-hand is a no-brainer here, and if you decide that it’s not for you after all, you can always trade your Halfords bike back in.
This Boardman ADV 8.9 marries an aluminium alloy frame with a carbon fork, and gravel-specific Shimano GRX gearing and hydraulic brakes. There’s no scrimping on tyres either, with tubeless-ready 38mm Schwalbe G-One tyres fitted as standard.
With a grade A rating, it’s near-perfect too. Looking for an even greater saving? You can pick up the same bike with a grade B rating for just £850.
Something for the little one in your life? They grow so fast, so trading in bikes as they shoot up in height makes perfect sense.
This one comes with a 64% saving on the RRP, which is great news for your wallet, too.
This 18in-wheel bike is best suited to children between 112cm and 126cm tall, with an average age guide between 5-9 years old.
With good size availability, including S, M, L and XL frame sizes, you can save £339 on a second-hand Boardman ADV 8.9E Men’s Adventure Electric Bike, bringing the price under £2,000.
That’s a lot of bike for the cash. It’s equipped with a Fazua Evation mid-drive motor, 11-speed SRAM Apex 1 drivetrain and hydraulic disc brakes, as well as quality 38mm Schwalbe G-One Speed tyres.
The 250Wh battery is removable, so you can ride with or without electric assistance, which typically lasts between 25 and 30 miles. At Grade C, the bike has been ridden for fewer than 1,000 miles.
Your budget doesn’t have to stop you getting out on the trails, with the Carrera Vulcan MTB reduced from £435 new to just £272 second-hand, even with a grade B condition rating.
The Vulcan hardtail is kitted out with a 120mm Suntour XCM suspension fork and 9-speed Shimano Altus gearing with a double chainring and hydraulic disc brakes for good stopping power.
Plus that bright blue really pops, doesn’t it?
Besides bikes, there’s a whole host of Easter deals to be had at Halfords right now, helping you get back in the saddle for summer, or grab a bargain ahead of a busy cycling season.
From turbo trainers to bike racks, kids’ kneepads and bottle cages – here’s our pick of the best offers.
I’m excited to play Mario Kart World for all the obvious reasons, not least among them that it’s the first new Mario Kart in 11 years. But today’s mini Mario Kart Direct confirmed for me that I’m most interested in the Free Roam mode. It’s the Burnout Paradise sequel I’ve been waiting for since 2008.
Looking for a good VPN service? ExpressVPN is offering one heck of a deal right now. You can snag a 28-month subscription, which is well over two years, for 61 percent off the typical price. This boils down to $5 per month, but there’s one catch. You have to pay up front, which comes out to $140.
That’s a hefty initial payout, but having access to a good VPN service into late 2027 sounds pretty dang nice. To that end, ExpressVPN is one of the more reputable companies out there and it easily made our list of the best VPN providers. We appreciated the speedy connections offered by the service. This isn’t always the case with VPNs. We also didn’t encounter too much lag during our testing.
It works on a variety of devices, so this isn’t just for the living room desktop. ExpressVPN integrates with mobile gadgets, smart TVs and game consoles, among other items. It’s really the best solution for gamers who travel a lot. It also comes with an in-house password manager, which would eliminate the need for a standalone subscription.
Truly the only real downside of this service is the price. The regular cost is $13 per month, which is mighty steep. This sale alleviates this concern, at least for 28 months. Spending $5 per month for a VPN of this caliber is something of a no-brainer.
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GORN 2 offers a familiar but welcome sequel to the brutal VR arena fighter, and it’s out today on Quest and PC VR. Read on for our full review.
The original GORN left its mark with an utterly brutal gladiatorial VR fighting game, yet the older hit feels undeniably dated in 2025. In some ways, GORN 2 feels like a relatively safe follow-up by Free Lives and Cortopia Studios that’s not trying to reinvent the wheel. What’s here is largely familiar, yet some welcome evolutions, a shinier coat of paint and some entertaining (if often juvenile) humor makes this worth looking into.
What is it?: A brutal VR arena fighter where you kill the five bastard sons of the God of the Afterlife.
Platforms: Quest, Steam, PlayStation VR2 (reviewed on Quest 3)
Release Date: Out now (Quest, Steam), Summer 2025 (PS VR2)
Developer: Cortopia Studios, Free Lives
Price: TBC
A four-hour campaign threads together this tale well thanks to some humorous dialogue, though this isn’t a game that needs more than a threadbare story. Set across a heavenly realm, you’ve ascended to the afterlife following your death and we’re killing those same gladiators we previously struck down. That all takes place while assisting the deposed God of the Afterlife in stopping his five bastard sons, restoring him to his former glory.
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Each challenge is gated by an ‘Epicness’ meter that only really serves to railroad you into a linear progression path with minor variances. You’ll access each five realms from a small hub area, with levels selected in fittingly brutal fashion by skewering a fallen gladiator’s head onto a pike. Weapons aren’t freely selectable as you start a new stage, encouraging you to try other weapons beyond your immediate favorites.
Thinking of which, GORN 2 hosts a strong selection that caters to multiple playstyles. Ranged weaponry like the archery bow aren’t doing much for me here, and I much prefer getting up close with melee options. Between cleavers, maces, axes, spears, swords, katanas, and more, it’s a great range that feels physically responsive. Even this leans into the humor well, thanks to the wobbly nature of items and sillier options like a giant slab of meat you can push foes around with.
Make no mistake, GORN 2 feels even more brutal than the first game, though you can ease this up with a ‘low violence mode’ that swaps blood splatter for colorful confetti. Physically tearing out someone’s heart with a sword and turning it into a kebab takes this one step further, nevermind physically ripping someone’s head off with your bare hands. If you swing with enough gusto, you can heavily wound them straight away.
These moments also showcase the game’s physicality well. I remember taking out one gladiator’s eye with a sword, it getting stuck on the tip and brushing it off against my shield. Dismemberments, decapitations, it’s all here. Killing enemies restores your health, while some stages give you special abilities through potions like superspeed, telekinesis for throwing objects, and more.
Every stage is split between four rounds that end with either a mini-boss or the local bastard. Getting creative with weapons like striking through an armour gap adds some good strategy, though I particularly enjoy baiting these foes into traps. One arena uses a spatula that effectively swats away those beneath it, another uses lava, one has a gap in the floor with a meat grinder, and so on. This gives each stage some great design that goes beyond a cosmetic reskin.
What’s here evolves on the original game’s premise well, and anyone who enjoyed the first game will likely feel right at home. But that’s just it, GORN 2 never really pushes beyond this and feels incredibly familiar. Some of my criticisms still remain from my original preview. Namely, the AI behaviour just isn’t particularly smart and there’s often no sense of self-preservation when walking towards a series of spinning blades. Seeing them start attacking each other and doing my job for me can be really funny, though.
GORN 2 features two types of movement – artificial stick-based locomotion and a “grab and pull” system where you directly pull yourself across each area. Smooth and snap camera turning are both supported with adjustable strengths and distances, while movement direction can be based on your hand or head direction.
GORN 2 doesn’t have a specific seated mode, yet the height offset can adjust accordingly for those sitting down and those standing up. There also isn’t a left-handed mode, though the controls are identical between both hands so this isn’t necessary.
Replayability isn’t the strongest either, though a few options are particularly nice to see. The ‘Hardcore Mode’ adds a refreshing difficulty boost too for those who want it by making enemies faster and giving you less health, which is great because the standard mode often feels too easy. I died only three times throughout the entire campaign with the standard setting.
Every stage gives you an optional challenge to complete that rewards you with a stronger weapon, which typically ranges from “kill x number of enemies” with a particular weapon to luring them into traps. It’s a pleasant idea with a good reward, yet I never feel like I’m missing out if I fail the challenge.
What gives GORN 2 some extra longevity are the additional modes, though the survival-like ‘Endless Mode’ isn’t particularly exciting in longer stints. Completing campaign stages for the first time unlocks new weapons for the ‘Custom Mode’ which has a decently customizable feature set. Between crowd sizes, number of enemies, special abilities and gravity strength, creating your own games feels great.
As for a platform comparison, this review was done on Quest 3 and I can say it holds up well compared to the PC VR edition. My previous hand-on preview was done through Steam using Quest 3 and Virtual Desktop, and I’ve yet to try the Quest 2 or PlayStation VR2 versions. For Steam players, our video producer Don Hopper recently hosted a livestream if you’d like to see more.
My desktop uses an Intel i9 16-Core Processor i9-12900 (Up to 5.1GHz), 32GB RAM – Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 5200MHz, and a 16GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. This comparison was conducted using a Meta Quest 3 via Virtual Desktop. The minimum/recommended specs can be found on Steam.
GORN 2 largely runs well on Quest 3, and the colorful cel-shaded art means this translates nicely to lower spec standalone headsets. Some performance drops are noticeable on Quest 3 that aren’t present with the Steam release, usually in later levels during more intense combat sequences. However, these are infrequent enough to only be a minor concern.
While it’s ultimately a safer sequel that won’t deliver any revolutionary changes, GORN 2 refines the existing premise well for a strong VR arena fighter that should please fans of the original. You won’t need long to clear the campaign, the replayability isn’t terribly strong, and there are some performance issues on Quest 3. Yet between its vibrant cel-shaded visual presentation, brutally hilarious combat and strong action, it’s still a great time.
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Welcome to “Cookbook of the Week.” This is a series where I highlight cookbooks that are unique, easy to use, or just special to me. While finding a particular recipe online serves a quick purpose, flipping through a truly excellent cookbook has a magic all its own.
I cook on a daily basis (no surprises there), and most of the time, the meals I make hit the spot. But there are some special meals I make that spur a spontaneous exclamation from my partner, or make me shake my head in disbelief that all of my intentions for this dish have been realized. The meal I made yesterday did exactly that, and the recipe was from Pakistan, my cookbook of the week.
Pakistan is a new release, and the debut cookbook from Maryam Jillani. This cookbook, with possibly the most vibrant and mesmerizing cover I’ve ever seen, presents an expansive view of what Pakistani food is. Jillani includes dishes from Islamabad to Karachi in Pakistan but also dishes that originated in India and Afghanistan. It reminds me of when I learned that many of my favorite Thai dishes were originally from other places, like sweet and savory pad see ew from China, and thin, flaky Thai roti making its way over from India. Cuisine is not completely bound by borders and, like language, it influences neighbors and changes over time.
Pakistan has a recipe for every craving you might have, like street food snacks, vegetarian sides, desserts, and hearty meat dishes. It is complete with chapter breaks that pair personal stories with beautiful photography—food, people cooking, and landscapes—all with a rather hypnotic contrast of light and shadow.
While this might just be an artist’s trained eye coordinating lovely visuals, I can’t help but connect the balance and contrast in the photography with how the flavors present themselves in the dishes of Pakistan.
This is not a cookbook for a person on a diet. It’s not going to be a fun cookbook for a person that says, “Oh I don’t do (fill in the blank).” Whether it’s a healthy dose of frying oil, a bold teaspoon of Kashmiri red chili powder, or sweet and tart tamarind paste, this cookbook is for the fearless. It’s for the home cook who purchased that mango powder in the Asian market but doesn’t know the first place to use it. Because the fearless cooks know that being surprised by new seasoning, ingredients, and flavors are likely going to be a massive revelation for your cooking as a whole. You enjoy new combinations and then you start using them in your own, brand new concoctions.
That said, be aware that this cookbook may include ingredients that are hard to source for you depending on your region. While plain yogurt might be at your local supermarket, carom seeds or fresh curry leaves may not be. But don’t let that stop you in your tracks; there are a fair amount of recipes that completely use ingredients available in Western supermarkets. Additionally, Pakistan has an excellent section in the front of the book that discusses the fresh herbs and spices used in the recipes and how to substitute them if they can be.
This week, I made Borani Banjan, or Afghan-Style Fried Eggplant in Yogurt. My partner and I ended up eating it alongside some pan-fried chicken thighs, and this is the meal that made us both stop and appreciate the food on our plates.
I’d say this recipe is an eggplant-forward dish, but there are onions and tomatoes that share the spotlight. I chose it because the headnote says it’s well-loved for being so straightforward in preparation (I do love that) and because the picture showed me how it was to be served—red-orange stewed veggies over a sweep of tangy yogurt and herbs sprinkled over the top. I adore well-cooked (mushy) eggplant over yogurt. Add a spicy, salty sauce, and I have achieved all goals for the day.
The recipe consisted of ingredients I grabbed easily at the store, barring the Kashmiri chili, sadly. I only had cayenne in my cabinet, so I said, “screw it,” and used that instead. While I can’t wait to try this recipe with the indicated chili powder, I had the time of my life eating this tangy, warming, bitter, salty dish. The eggplant slices get fried in cooking oil, set aside, and other ingredients then get cooked in more oil. The eggplant gets added back in and everything steams together to make a robust and spicy side dish. Served on the cooling yogurt, you’re hit with hot, cold, herbal dry mint, and round background notes from the veggies and turmeric. It was a wild ride of massive flavors, and now I want more where that came from.
The hardcover of Pakistan is stunning, so I’d recommend you go all out and get it. But I understand that if you’re a voracious cookbook reader, you might prefer the less obtrusive ebook for a lower price. As with most new hardcover cookbooks, you’ll likely be able to spot it easily at your local brick and mortar bookstore too.
Fantastic Four: First Steps is still a few months away, but I’m surprised that the second trailer is still keeping so much so close to its chest. We still haven’t seen the planet-eating villain Galactus in all his glory beyond brief shots of his feet and the back of his head, Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic…
Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” SoCs: wow, what an upgrade! I’ve spent the past week testing out the Framework 13 with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and it’s been terrific. Framework 13’s modularity continues to pay off and allows easily upgrading to the new Strix Point bearing motherboard with AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and the Radeon 890M (RDNA 3.5) integrated graphics. If you are on a fresh Linux distribution the support is in great shape and paired with great performance for delivering a great 2025 Linux laptop option.
XR indie Flip Axis Studios announced a multiplayer VR skateboarding game that promises to bring actual skating action to Quest 3 and SteamVR—minus the risk of rolled ankles and broken limbs.
Called Virtual Skate, the newly announced VR game is said to evolve skateboarding games by “giving players full 3D control over their feet—directly with their hands.”
It’s also set to include a physics-based system, letting you control the board and style tricks in “ways not possible with canned animations,” the studio says.
Info is still thin, however the teaser shows off an in-game recording feature so you can capture your friend’s tricks when in multiplayer.
What’s more, industry veteran Jon West is creating Virtual Skate, cofounder of Easy Day Studios and lead developer behind its PC and console skating game Skater XL (2020).
There’s no launch date yet, however the studio says it’s coming “soon” to Quest 3 and SteamVR headsets.
In the meantime, we’ll be keeping an eye on the game’s website for store links and any news on upcoming release dates, as well as the game’s Discord (invite link) for any word on future beta testing.
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Earlier this month, Nintendo let Ars Technica and other outlets have access to a small hands-on slice of Mario Kart World ahead of its planned June 5 launch. Today, a short livestreamed video presentation gave a bit of extra information about how exactly the full version of the free-roaming Nintendo Switch 2 launch game will work in practice.
As the name implies, Mario Kart World sets itself apart from previous games via a “vast interconnected world” that you can roam freely between the actual race courses. That open space between races will feature “hundreds of P-switches,” Nintendo said, each of which activates a small mission to “hone your driving abilities.” Free-roaming racers will also be able to find hidden medallions and question-mark panels, as well as “drive-thru” food items that can be used to unlock new outfits.
“Hundreds” of P-Switches like this will activate short missions throughout the game’s world.
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While cruising around the Mario Kart “world,” players will stumble onto new courses “inspired by their surrounding region,” as well as “nostalgic courses for past titles… reimagined and spread throughout the world.” When playing in Grand Prix mode, the drive between these courses will be integrated into the usual four-course cups themselves; after racing Mario Kart Circuit in the Mushroom cup, for instance, the second race “will have you covering the distance from Mario Bros. Circuit to Crown City,” Nintendo said.
A global gambling syndicate led by secretive Tasmanian gambler Zeljko Ranogajec and London bookmaker Bernard Marantelli successfully executed an unprecedented operation to claim a $57.8 million Texas lottery jackpot in 2023.
The group, operating through a limited partnership called Rook TX, purchased 99.3% of all possible number combinations, printing over 25 million tickets across four makeshift workshops in Texas. Using dozens of official lottery terminals and working nearly around the clock for three days, the team systematically printed hundreds of tickets per second.
Texas officials have since launched investigations, with Lt. Governor Dan Patrick calling it “the biggest theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas.” The Texas Rangers are now investigating the operation. Through legal representation, the syndicate maintains they “followed all applicable laws, rules and regulations” throughout the process.
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Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been having on its servers, leading to increased costs and slower load times for human users in some cases. Perhaps in an effort to stop the bots from pummeling the public Wikipedia website and soaking up too much bandwidth, the Wikimedia Foundation (which manages Wikipedia’s data) is offering AI developers a dataset they can freely use.
The organization has teamed up with Kaggle, a data science platform, to offer up a beta release of a structured dataset in both English and French. According to Google — which owns Kaggle — the dataset is formatted for machine learning to make it more useful for training, development and data science.
Wikimedia Enterprise notes that the dataset includes “abstracts, short descriptions, infobox-style key-value data, image links and clearly segmented article sections.” There are no references or other “non-prose elements,” such as video clips. The lack of references could make the issue of attribution for information in the dataset somewhat foggy. However, Wikimedia Enterprise (a part of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to make Wikipedia data available through APIs) says that the content in the dataset is freely licensed under Creative Commons, the public domain and so on since it’s all from Wikipedia.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia-offers-ai-developers-a-training-dataset-to-maybe-get-scraper-bots-off-its-back-143255593.html?src=rss
Chinese authorities have banned automakers from using terms such as “smart driving” and “autonomous driving” for ads in the country, according to Reuters. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has tightened its rules for advertising driving assistance features following a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SUV7 (pictured above), which raised concerns about the technology’s safety. Based on Xiaomi’s report, the vehicle’s driving assistance mode was switched on when the vehicle was approaching a construction zone, but the driver took control right before the SUV collided with a concrete barrier. The electric vehicle went up in flames, with the accident claiming three lives.
Back in 2022, the California DMV accused Tesla of falsely portraying its vehicles as fully autonomous based on the language it used on its website, though that didn’t lead to a ban on advertising terms. Chinese authorities announced the new rule at a meeting attended by 60 representatives from the automobile industry. In addition to the new advertising rules, they also announced that they’re prohibiting automakers from testing and improving their driver assistance systems via remote software upgrades if they’re already in the hands of customers. If the companies want to roll out updates over the air, they’ll have to secure an approval for them after conducting a battery of tests.
As Reuters noted, there’s a growing competition in the Chinese automotive industry with companies launching vehicles promising “smart driving” capabilities. BYD, the top Chinese EV manufacturer based in Shenzhen, rolled out a whopping 21 models of electric vehicles in February, with the company’s free “smart driving” features being one of their main selling points. These automakers may now have to alter their advertising materials in order to comply with the new regulations.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/china-cracks-down-on-autonomous-car-claims-after-fatal-accident-143026741.html?src=rss
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Tesla is facing a new scandal that once again sees the electric automaker accused of misleading customers. In the past, it has been caught making “misleading statements” about the safety of its electric vehicles, and more recently, an investigation by Reuters found Tesla EVs exaggerated their efficiency. Now, a lawsuit filed in California alleges that the cars are also falsely exaggerating odometer readings to make warranties expire prematurely.
The lead plaintiff in the case, Nyree Hinton, bought a used Model Y with less than 37,000 miles (59,546 km) on the odometer. Within six months, it had pushed past the 50,000-mile (80,467 km) mark, at which point the car’s bumper-to-bumper warranty expired. (Like virtually all EVs, Tesla powertrains have a separate warranty that lasts much longer.)
For this six-month period, Hinton says his Model Y odometer gained 13,228 miles (21,288 km). By comparison, averages of his three previous vehicles showed that with the same commute, he was only driving 6,086 miles (9,794 km) per 6 months.
