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ChatGPT Briefly Returned a ‘Content Failed to Load’ Error for Some Users

ChatGPT Briefly Returned a ‘Content Failed to Load’ Error for Some Users

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Those who use ChatGPT to answer various questions had to turn to other sources on Wednesday. Around 4 p.m. PT, ChatGPT was returning an error for some users. As of 4:30 pm PT, the OpenAI chatbot seems to be back up and running. CNET staffers in Seattle and Sacramento, California, reported that the site took them immediately to a blank page that read, “Content failed to load.” A staff member in Los Angeles reported that they could not use the site until they logged in, and then they were able to ask a question. Staffers in the other cities weren’t able to keep the site working long enough for a login to be possible. Some users saw this error on ChatGPT.com. OpenAI/Screenshot by CNET An OpenAI representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) The website DownDetector noted a spike in error reports for OpenAI sites, mostly for …

The Mental Load Is Making Women's Sleep Suffer, Professor Says

The Mental Load Is Making Women's Sleep Suffer, Professor Says

Published by Sam Flores

!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement(‘iframe’);t.display=’none’,t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement(‘script’);c.src=”//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js”,c.setAttribute(‘async’,’1′),c.setAttribute(‘type’,’text/javascript’),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src=”https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”;cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({“playerId”:”8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”,”mediaId”:”5a43f3c7-4730-480c-ba67-8f8b70f7aa96″}).render(“69f1df6fe4b0e475dfddb373”);}); You may have heard that, on average, women need 20 minutes more sleep than men a night.  But one study has called the bedroom an “invisible workplace” for women, “in which women’s sleep needs are compromised by the unpaid physical and emotional labour necessary for the well-being and maintenance of their family”. And another paper found that in countries with greater gender equality, both men and women get better shut-eye.  It seems that even though women typically spend longer in bed than men, they’re not actually as well-rested. Here, we spoke to Leah Ruppanner, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne and author of Drained, who co-wrote that second study, about why women may face such poor sleep, and what to do about it. The mental load is a big factor Prof Ruppanner pointed to a 2009 paper, which she said showed that “women protect men’s sleep from the interruption of children”, especially when the man is the breadwinner.  She added that her research showed having the pressure of a …

To lighten your mental load, first let go of these gender myths : NPR

To lighten your mental load, first let go of these gender myths : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Malte Mueller/Getty, Composite by NPR Remember to pick up paper towels on your way home from work! Oh, summer camp sign ups are at 6. Ooh, should you include your boss in that upcoming meeting this week? How do you lighten your mental load — those seemingly never-ending tasks you’re constantly keeping track of in your brain? It’s a question that sociologist Leah Ruppanner explores in her new book, Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More, which comes out today. It offers evidence-based tools to reduce what she calls “emotional thinking work,” so we can use that energy in a more meaningful way. Ruppanner, a professor at The University of Melbourne in Australia who has spent decades studying gender, work and family, has found that just being able to acknowledge and measure the mental load can slim it down. “Once we see it, we can’t unsee it. We can start to address it,” she says. While everyone has a mental load to some extent — women carry the greatest burden, she …

Father Finally Understands The Mental Load After Parenting Alone While His Wife Was Away

Father Finally Understands The Mental Load After Parenting Alone While His Wife Was Away

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many dads, not all, lack a concrete grasp on what the mental load of parenting and running a household actually entails, and how it feels. It doesn’t quite click with them until they’re the ones that have to carry it.  That seemed to be the case for one father of three who was tasked with taking care of the kids and the house after his wife went out of town for a handful of days. In a TikTok video, content creator and dad Cedric Thompson Jr. admitted that he now understands what his wife and all other women have to go through when it comes to handling childcare and household responsibilities. Dad finally understands the ‘mental load’ after having to parent alone for 8 days while his wife was away. Antoni Shkraba Studio | Pexels “I’ve been a single dad for eight days because my wife is in the Philippines and I had no idea it was this tough,” Thompson admitted in his video. “I was prepared for the cleaning, lodging back and forth, the …

Mexican Volunteers Load Boats With Aid for Energy‑strapped Cuba

Mexican Volunteers Load Boats With Aid for Energy‑strapped Cuba

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PROGRESO, Mexico, March 20 (Reuters) – Volunteers in Mexico ⁠loaded ⁠a fleet of modest boats ⁠bound for Cuba with rice, baby wipes and other supplies in ​a growing grassroots effort to help the island as it grapples with the fallout of a U.S. squeeze ‌on oil imports that has ‌led to power outages and a worsening economic crisis. At a port in the southeast Mexican state ⁠of Yucatan, ⁠less than 800 kilometers (497 miles) across the Gulf of Mexico from Havana, ​several dozen people hoisted boxes out of cars and trucks alongside a hand-painted banner declaring: “Let Cuba Live.” “At the beginning we felt like we were going against the tide, trying to get enough aid,” said Marisela ​Vega, one of the volunteers. “And suddenly it overflowed. … When everyone started finding out, little by ⁠little ⁠they responded more and more.” Beans, ⁠baby formula, ​shampoo, and feminine pads have been donated, said Vega. Medications also have been purchased through ​donations. The boats were expected to ⁠depart on Friday as part of “Nuestra America Convoy,” or …

Tanker Heads to UAE Port Via Strait of Hormuz to Load Oil, Sources Say

Tanker Heads to UAE Port Via Strait of Hormuz to Load Oil, Sources Say

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(Corrects to insert paragraph 1 ⁠dropped ⁠words “sailed through”) SINGAPORE, March ⁠4 (Reuters) – An oil tanker sailed through the ​Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, heading to a United Arab ‌Emirates port to load ‌crude in a rare voyage since the ⁠Iran ⁠war disrupted shipping in the Middle East, according to ​industry sources and shiptracking data. Suezmax tanker Pola switched off its AIS tracker late on March 2, when it approached ​the Strait, and re-appeared on March 3 off ⁠Abu Dhabi, ⁠LSEG data showed. The vessel ⁠is ​heading to the port of Jebel Dhanna to load ​Abu Dhabi Murban ⁠crude for Thailand, said two trade sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the matter is a sensitive one. Dynacom Tankers which manages the vessel ⁠could not be immediately reached for comment outside office hours. The ⁠U.S.-Israeli war on Iran halted energy exports from the Middle East, with Tehran attacking ships and energy facilities, closing navigation in the Gulf and forcing production stoppages in countries from Qatar to Iraq. Crude tanker transits through the strait …

Google secures 1 GW solar deal as Texas data‑center load surges

Google secures 1 GW solar deal as Texas data‑center load surges

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Photo: TotalEnergies TotalEnergies just landed a massive solar deal to power Google’s expanding Texas data centers. The company signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity, or about 28 terawatt‑hours of electricity over 15 years. The power will come from two projects now in development: the 805‑megawatt Wichita solar farm and the 195‑MW Mustang Creek site. Construction is slated to start in Q2 2026. It’s the largest renewable PPA TotalEnergies has ever signed in the US and a clear signal of how fast data‑center power demand is rising. Rather than tapping existing supply, the contracts are tied to brand‑new generation that will feed regional grids. The agreements also stack on top of 1.2 GW in separate PPAs recently secured by Clearway, the California‑based developer that’s 50% owned by TotalEnergies. Those projects will supply Google facilities across ERCOT, PJM, and SPP power markets. Advertisement – scroll for more content Marc‑Antoine Pignon, TotalEnergies’ vice president of US renewables, said deals like this show how major tech companies are increasingly seeking customized clean‑power …

Does the Apple Watch Ultra 3’s training load feature actually prevent overtraining?

Does the Apple Watch Ultra 3’s training load feature actually prevent overtraining?

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When training for a specific goal, a smart fitness tracker is an essential. Aside from simply tracking your activities, it can support your training through suggested workouts, fatigue tracking, and health stats that can relay the stages of your recovery. Many of these smartwatches now also offer insights into your training load, providing a readable stat that shows just how your workouts are impacting your body. This is a popular feature on the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple’s most rugged smartwatch. But is this data actually useful? What is Apple’s training load feature and does it prevent overtraining? Apple’s Training Load feature helps you see how hard your body is working over time, rather than just how tough a single workout was. It looks at the intensity and duration of your workouts over the last seven days and compares them to your previous 28 days of activity. Using this comparison, it puts your current workout load into categories from “well below” to “well above” your normal level. This gives you a sense of whether your …

Ditch The Scaries – 'Blue Monday' Is Likely A Load Of Bull

Ditch The Scaries – 'Blue Monday' Is Likely A Load Of Bull

Published by Sam Flores

!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement(‘iframe’);t.display=’none’,t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement(‘script’);c.src=”//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js”,c.setAttribute(‘async’,’1′),c.setAttribute(‘type’,’text/javascript’),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);(new Image()).src=”https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”;cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({“playerId”:”8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb”,”mediaId”:”8cd7f03f-e321-49d9-aefe-89c04246ef63″}).render(“696a2149e4b0eee204af0e80”);}); You might have heard that the third Monday of every January should make any existing Sunday scaries even worse.  “Blue Monday,” described as the “most depressing day of the year,” is sometimes cited as uniquely miserable because of the combination of post-Christmas sadness, money worries, grim weather, and workload associated with the day.  But is it even real? And how did we come up with that calculation to being with? Who invented “Blue Monday”?  Like the oft-cited (and unscientific) 10,000 steps a day rule, “Blue Monday” actually began as a marketing gimmick.  Reportedly invented by psychologist Cliff Arnall alongside a now-defunct UK travel agency, the phrase was “calculated” using a formula based on projected debt, failed resolutions, and bad weather.  This formula was quickly dubbed “pseudoscientific”, “bullshit,” and a “myth” by a UK physician and other scientists. There is now considered to be no scientific proof that “Blue Monday” is a uniquely depressing day, Dr Philip Clarke, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Derby, told the BBC. He added, “There’s not even proof …