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With Opening Day 2025 just around the corner, we begin our MLB division previews with a look at the National League East.
LeBron’s injury, JJ Redick’s coaching style, difficulty in covering Bronny and the MVP race
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LeBron’s injury, JJ Redick’s coaching style, difficulty in covering Bronny and the MVP race
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LeBron James appears to reveal what Stephen A. Smith said regarding Bronny that ticked him off
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Yankees ace Gerrit Cole needs Tommy John surgery, will miss entire 2025 season
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The Latest Pixel Update Is Filled With Glitches, but There’s a Fix for at Least One of Them
Software updates are supposed to introduce new features while improving the stability of the operating system. Occasionally, however, additional bugs and glitches can slip through the cracks. That’s the case with the latest Pixel update: While Google added a number of new features to Android and patched 43 security vulnerabilities, users who have installed it are complaining of strange glitches on their Pixel phones.
March 2025 Pixel drop glitches: Brightness, vibrations, and more
First up, as spotted by 9to5Google, some Pixel users are experiencing brightness variations while using their phones—without touching the brightness settings themselves. The issue seems to be limited to video playback, where the brightness will dip or flicker at random. This user reports it happens in just about every video app they use, including Netflix, Prime Video, VLC, or Google’s built-in player. 9to5Google confirmed the bug on a Pixel 9, though the brightness glitch happened inconsistently.
In addition to this brightness glitch, you may also experience changes with your device’s vibrations. This thread represents a wide range of experiences with the issue: Some users are complaining that haptics are much stronger than they were before the update, with one user describing the change as a “spring instead of a thump.” On the other hand, another user says the vibrations of their Pixel are now weaker than they were before. Regardless, many seem to feel vibrations are “different” following the update.
These are the bugs that have made the most buzz on forums since the Pixel Drop. However, there could be other issues that aren’t quite as widespread. One r/GooglePixel user rounded up the bugs they’ve experienced so far, and, in addition to the brightness bug, they’re also experiencing audio issues, including an issue with EQ settings, and a problem where song volume is much louder than video volume. That last point would make it quite annoying to jump between, say, Spotify and Netflix: Stranger Things will launch too quiet, and will make your brightness go berserk.
How to fix the brightness glitch on Pixel phones
While Google is likely working on patches for the biggest bugs from the latest Pixel drop, there’s currently a workaround for the brightness glitch: drop your phone’s refresh rate. It appears that flickering and dimming problems only occur at this time when watching videos with 120Hz. Drop the refresh rate to 60Hz, and the brightness issues appear to dissipate.
To change the refresh rate, head to Settings > Display, then disable the toggle next to Smooth Display.
The Nintendo Alarmo Sound Clock Actually Gets Me Up in the Morning
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For many years, I’ve depended on my phone to get me out of bed in the morning, and I’ve hated it. I’d easily snooze or catch myself doom scrolling instead of starting my morning routine. That all changed after my brother gifted me perhaps the best Christmas present I’ve received over the last few years: a Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, which you can now get on Walmart or Target for $99.99. It was previously only available on the Nintendo store.
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Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo (Walmart)
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Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo
$99.98
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The Alarmo is a digital alarm clock that needs to be connected to an outlet with a USB cable to be powered on. You no longer need a Switch Online membership to buy (or use it). It comes with many built-in themes you can choose from, including Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 3, Pikmin 4, and Ring Fit Adventure. Nintendo says you can expect to download more in the future for free, including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The Alarmo uses a motion sensor to detect that you’re getting out of bed to stop the alarm from going off.
I’ve been using the The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild theme since I set it up and have been using it for months with great results. Because I need to get up to stop the alarm, and I don’t want the alarm to wake up my fiancée, it’s been effective. I never thought Nintendo would be the one to fix my morning issues and over-dependence on my phone.
Something to note is that although there is no snooze feature, it is designed to temporarily stop the music when you move, essentially snoozing. But it’s not a pleasant snooze since the music will keep on playing, progressively getting louder. You can also easily unplug it to turn it off completely since there’s no battery, but it has been working great for me regardless.
NFL free agency, offseason updates: Sam Darnold’s $100.5M Seahawks deal headlines raucous 1st day of legal tampering
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Don’t Fall for the Unpaid Parking Fee Scam Text
Unpaid parking tickets happen to the best of us—and one of the latest phishing scams is counting on you to believe you’ve missed or forgotten to pay an outstanding fee. This text message scam prompts you to pay overdue parking fines and hand your credit card number and other personal information directly to the scammers to turn around and use.
Scammers are using the threat of unpaid parking fees
The unpaid parking fee scam is one of many relatively unsophisticated text-based phishing attempts that depends on recipients responding to the threat of owing money and giving up personal and financial information in the process. It’s similar to the current unpaid tolls scam text, which may seem just plausible enough that you might be tempted to click the link to settle your supposed fine.
In this instance, scammers are impersonating city governments by sending notices of unpaid parking “invoices,” which will accrue daily late fees until payments are made. The text message includes a web address or link spoofing an official government website, which directs you to enter details from your name and billing address to your credit card number. If you follow through, you obviously hand your credit card over to the scammers.
The Salt Lake City phishing text, for example, reads “This is a notice from Salt Lake city. Your vehicle has an unpaid parking invoice of $4.35. To avoid a late fee of 355, please settle your balance promptly. To avoid late fees, access your file by typing the following link into your browser” with a web address that looks similar to the city’s parking portal but is, in fact, fake.
According to Bleeping Computer, these texts started circulating in December 2024 and have been spotted in numerous cities across the U.S., including major metro areas like Boston, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, New York City, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, San Diego, and San Francisco. In some of the texts, there’s a clickable link that uses an open redirect on Google.com, which avoids an iOS security feature that disables links from unknown senders and suspicious domains.
How to spot a parking fee scam text
Like we’ve said, this scam isn’t especially elaborate, but it does attempt to create just enough doubt about your history of parking tickets in your own city that you’ll engage. The first question you should ask yourself is whether you’ve used paid public parking recently—if not, that’s an obvious giveaway.
Even if you have, though, question whether a city government is likely to text you about unpaid parking fees, and look at the number the text is coming from. While official (legitimate) text messages typically come from five-digit senders, phishing texts often come from full phone numbers, international numbers (with a prefix like “+44”), or even email addresses.
From there, other signs of a scam include directions to copy and paste or type a web address into a browser or to respond to the text itself. Non-hyperlinked URLs are a clear giveaway, but you should also be wary of clicking links in any texts from unknown senders and always go directly to official government websites. In the parking fee scam, there are also signs like misspelled words and missing or misplaced symbols, like the dollar sign coming after the amount.