Wired

This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law

Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products. Manufacturers sometimes even take steps that prevent consumers from repairing their device when it breaks, or ...
GM Authority

Some GMC Yukon Units Need A Steering Shaft Bolt Fix

General Motors has identified a production issue requiring a swift fix on a small number of its flagship full-size SUVs. The automaker issued Service Update N252528020 for certain 2025 GMC Yukon ...
GM Authority

Some Cadillac Escalade Units Need A Steering Shaft Bolt Fix

General Motors has identified a production issue requiring a swift fix on a small number of its flagship full-size SUVs. The automaker issued Service Update N252528020 for certain 2025 Cadillac ...
Android

Meta Introduces Updates to Repair Broken Account Support and Security

Meta has confirmed that it is redesigning the support experience of its popular social media apps, Facebook and Instagram. The update system now provides clearer and better answers to the queries. It ...
Torque News

A Ford F-150 Owner Fights a $1,500 Dealer Bill For Snapping Turbo Bolts: Says,“My Ford F-150 Warranty Repair Became a Nightmare”

When a Ford dealer broke a critical part during F-150 warranty work, they handed the owner a $1,500 bill, but the comments section reveals this is a pervasive scam F-150 owners are winning against by ...
KMBC Kansas City

City of Shawnee, sustainability nonprofit hosting 'Repair Cafe' for free fixes on broken household items

HIGH OF 61. CODY THERE YOU GO. THAT’S SOMETHING. KATIE. THANK YOU. YOUR NINE THINGS TO KNOW. BEGIN WITH A POSSIBLE END TO THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN SIGHT. LAST NIGHT, THE U.S. SENATE PASSED A SHORT ...
Fast Company

Why Silicon Valley’s vision of the future is broken—and how to fix it

Nick Foster is not a fan of how Silicon Valley imagines the future. As a designer and writer who has spent his career at places like Google, Nokia, and Sony, he’s had a front-row seat to the tech ...
9to5Mac

iPhone 17: Here’s what it costs to repair broken parts yourself

Apple has now made self-service repair parts available for iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, and iPhone Air. Here’s what it costs to repair broken parts yourself. Apple’s pricing for self-service ...
Engadget

Engadget Podcast: How Carvana is trying to fix the broken car buying world

Buying a car in America is usually a hellish experience involving pushy salespeople, mysterious fees, and hours-long financing negotiations. That’s something Carvana aimed to solve with its online ...
The Conversation

To fix broken electricity markets, stop promoting the wrong kind of competition

Richard Meade was funded in 2021 by an industry body representing New Zealand electricity retailers to survey the economic literature on vertical integration versus vertical separation in electricity ...
The Economist

Broken workflows—and how to fix them

Very premature babies need lots of immediate medical attention. Which is why one neo-natal team in an American hospital texted the acronym “ELBW”, shorthand for “extremely low birth weight”, to ...