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20-year-old Linux workaround is still slowing down AMD systems
Enlarge / A second-generation Epyc server chip from AMD, one that may have been running 2002-era Linux code slowing it down.
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AMD has come a long way since 2002, but the Linux kernel still treats modern Threadrippers like Athlon-era systems—at least in one potentially lag-inducing respect.
AMD engineer Prateek Nayak recently submitted a patch to Linux’s processor idle drivers that would “skip dummy wait for processors based on the Zen microarchitecture.” When ACPI support was added to the Linux kernel in 2002—written by Andy Grover, committed by Linus Torvalds—it included a “dummy wait op.” The system essentially read data with no purpose other than delaying the next instruction until the CPU could fully stop with the STPCLK# command. This allowed for some power saving and compatibility during the early days of ACPI implementation when some chipsets wouldn’t move to an idle state when one would expect it.
But today’s Zen-based AMD chips don’t need this workaround, and, as Nayak writes, it’s hurting them, at least in specific workloads on Linux. Testing with instruction-based sampling (IBS) workloads shows that “a significant amount of time is spent in the dummy op, which incorrectly gets accounted as C-State residency.” The CPU, seeing all this low-effort dummy work, can push into deeper, slower C-State, which then makes the CPU take longer to “wake up,” especially on jobs that require lots of switching between busy and idle states.
Nayak ran tests in tbench on a dual-socket Zen3 system against the baseline Linux kernel, a kernel with the C2 state entirely disabled, and a kernel with the dummy wait operation patched out. His patched version saw a 1,390 percent increase in minimum MB/s throughput and a 51 percent increase in mean MB/s over the baseline kernel, often just a little behind having C2 disabled entirely.
Intel systems have avoided AMD’s legacy curse, as they use an MWAIT-based system for at least a decade, per the Phoronix blog. That led to an urgent patch submitted by Dave Hansen of Intel. His solution was to limit “dummy wait” to Intel systems, where it would not affect “remotely modern Intel systems,” and add comments to the kernel’s idle drivers that spell out what’s happening—and encourage those reading to “consider moving your system to a more modern idle mechanism.”
If an urgent patch removing or limiting “dummy wait” is submitted this week, it could likely make the Linux 6.0 kernel, which Torvalds expects to ship next week.
Donovan Lewis: Body camera video shows a Columbus, Ohio, police officer fatally shooting an unarmed 20-year-old Black man
Donovan Lewis, 20, died Tuesday after being shot by Columbus Police Officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran with the Columbus Division of Police assigned to the K9 Unit, according to a police statement.
The shooting is under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and Anderson is currently on leave, Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said at a news conference Tuesday. CNN has attempted to reach Anderson for comment and also reached out to the Fraternal Order of Police.
The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment building where uniformed officers were serving a felony warrant for domestic violence and assault and improper handling of a firearm, Bryant said at the news conference. A news release by police indicated the male who was shot, later identified as Lewis, as the person sought in the felony warrant.
“The officers knocked on the door for several minutes … acknowledging themselves as Columbus Police officers,” Bryant said.
Police body camera video shows them knocking and calling out to occupants repeatedly for more than eight minutes. They called for “Donovan” by name several times.
Eventually, a man came to the door and was taken into custody by police, Bryant said. He told officers he’d been asleep, and they took a knife from his pocket. A second man inside the apartment was taken into custody about a minute later.
Officers asked if anyone else was inside the apartment, Bryant said, but were unable to determine that.
Anderson and a K9 were then called in by Columbus Police to see if anyone else was inside, Bryant said.
“Once the K9 officer arrived on the scene, additional announcements were made for anyone else inside to come out or the K9 was going to be released inside of the apartment,” Bryant said.
In the police body camera video, the K9 is seen barking outside a back bedroom door, then officers enter the apartment and warn they are going to send a dog in.
An officer is seen opening the bedroom door, where a man is seen on a bed.
Bodycam video shows Anderson firing a single shot at a man, later identified as Lewis, moments after opening the bedroom door.
During the news conference, Bryant showed the body camera video frame-by-frame, asserting that the moment Anderson opened fire, it appeared Lewis was holding “something” in his hand.
A vape pen was later found next to Lewis on the bed, Bryant says. Once Lewis was handcuffed, video shows, officers began rendering aid.
Lewis was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:19 a.m., according to the Columbus Police statement.
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An attorney for Lewis’ family condemned the shooting in a statement to CNN affiliate WSYX, calling the officer’s behavior reckless.
“The bodycam footage released yesterday afternoon says it all,” the statement said. “In literally the blink of an eye, a Columbus police officer shot and killed Donovan Lewis, an unarmed young Black man who was alone in his bed in the middle of the night.”
“As a result of this entirely reckless behavior by a Columbus Police Officer, a family is left to grieve the loss of such a young soul.”
The incident was just the latest in a string of deadly and controversial law enforcement shootings involving the city’s Black residents in recent years that have prompted protests over racial injustice and a review by the US Department of Justice into the Columbus Division of Police.
A Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in December 2020 as the 23-year-old tried to enter his home with a Subway sandwich. The deputy was working for the US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force looking for violent offenders at the time, police said, but Goodson was not the individual being sought. A grand jury indicted the deputy on two counts of murder and one count of reckless homicide.
Later that month, a Columbus police officer fatally shot Andre Hill as officers responded to a report of a man who was sitting in his SUV for an extended period. The officer in that case was fired and charged with murder, and the city council later voted to approve a $10 million settlement to Hill’s family, the largest in the city’s history.
Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, was killed in another shooting last April when Columbus police responded to her foster home, where Ma’Khia had been arguing with another young woman over a messy home and unmade bed. Police body camera video showed Ma’Khia lunge at the other woman with a knife, and a grand jury later declined to indict the officer who fired the fatal shot.
Bryant, the police chief, said Tuesday officers are “put in compromising, potentially life-threatening situations” every day, “in which we are required to make split-second decisions.”
“As the chief, it is my job to hold my officers accountable, but it’s also my job to offer them support and make sure that I give that to them through the process,” Bryant said. “If they do the right things for the right reasons, we will support them. If they do something wrong, they will be held accountable.”
20-year-old charged with manslaughter in taxi driver’s beating death in Queens
EDGEMERE, Queens (WABC) — A 20-year-old man has surrendered to police and is now charged with manslaughter in the beating death of a New York City taxi driver.
Austin Amos walked into the 101st Precinct stationhouse in Far Rockaway, Queens, Wednesday night, accompanied by his mother, after investigators released video of the suspects wanted in the death of 52-year-old Kutin Gyimah.
Police say Gyimah hit his head on the ground during an altercation with fare-evading passengers Saturday.
Amos has six prior arrests, including robbery, criminal mischief, criminal contempt and sexual misconduct.
A second male, also 20, also arrived at the precinct Wednesday night. He is still being questioned.
Two girls — ages 13 and 15 — are still being sought for their alleged roles in the attack.
A 16-year-old girl initially identified by detectives is no longer being sought.
Detectives believe Amos landed the final blow on the taxi driver, sending him to the pavement and potentially causing his death.
Surveillance video shows the moment Gyimah was punched and fell on his head. His wife, Abigail Gyiham, said she was relieved at the news of the arrest.
“He was my children’s hero,” she said. “He was my backbone. He was the one I looked up to. I look up to God, but aside God, he was the only one I looked up to. And now, his life has just been cut short just like that.”
The couple has four children ages 3, 5, 7 and 8.
“He was my backbone,” she said over the weekend. “I’m lost right now. My children here. I don’t know what to do right now. I am lost. I am lost in this world.”
Gyiham’s coworkers described him as a man who worked restlessly, especially during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This gentleman drove his cab, he never stopped taking passengers,” fellow driver Spyros Drakos said. “This, to me, is a hero, like the first responders. If a doctor, a nurse, someone, a family member needed to get somewhere, he was driving the cab, and he never stopped.”
According to police, when Kutin Gyimah let five passengers out near Beach 54th Street and Arverne Boulevard in Edgemere just before 6:30 a.m. instead of paying the fare, they tried to rob him.
Police said Gyimah chased after them and was attacked.
He suffered a severe head injury and was taken to St. John’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“Her husband went to work…like he did every day at 5 a.m., and he’s never coming back,” said Fernando Mateo, of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers said. “This guy picked them up to take them where they wanted to go. Why kill the man?”
The federation is also raising money to help the Gyiham family pay for the funeral with a GoFundMe page.
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Rebel Wilson gets protection from ‘delusional’ man that claims they have a 20-year-old son together
Rebel Wilson has been granted a temporary restraining order from a ‘delusional’ man that has allegedly been ‘harassing’ her for months.
The 41-year-old Pitch Perfect star’s alleged stalker has reportedly shown up to her Los Angeles home multiple times with strange gifts and letters, according to a report from TMZ.
In legal documents, filed by the actress’ lawyer Susan Haber, the individual is said to have located her home in Los Angeles and delivered a handwritten note which falsely claims he has a 20-year-old son with the actress.
Scary: Rebel Wilson was granted a temporary restraining order from a ‘delusional’ man that has been ‘harassing’ her for months, according to TMZ; seen in September
Wilson also said the letter falsely detailed how they supposedly met in 2001 at a club, where they talked, kissed and ‘we both know what happened thereafter.’
Despite the man’s claims of his shared history with one of Hollywood’s favorite comedians, she stated they had never met.
Among the presents left by her door, he also left her a toy penguin that says ‘love’ on it.
Bizarre: The 41-year-old Pitch Perfect star’s alleged stalker has reportedly shown up to her Los Angeles home multiple times with strange gifts and letters (seen in December)
Wilson wrote that she believes the man is ‘delusional’ and has created ‘in his mind a fictitious history of a relationship he had, and wants to continue to have’ with her.
His persistent alleged harassment has led the Isn’t It Romantic star to fear for her safety, and she believes his behavior won’t stop until the court steps in.
With her latest legal win against him, her stalker ‘must stay 100 yards away from Rebel and not make any attempt to contact her,’ according to TMZ.
Safety first: With her latest legal win against him, her stalker ‘must stay 100 yards away from Rebel and not make any attempt to contact her’ (pictured in September)
In 2020, she revealed at the Australian Open’s Inspirational Women lunch that she once had a stalker from rural Victoria who planned to ‘lock’ her on his farm, in hopes she could develop Stockholm Syndrome.
Last year, she spoke out about being sexually harassed from two figures in the entertainment industry on separate occasions during an interview with the BBC.
The first encounter occurred in a hotel room in Australia when Rebel was in her 20s and she was invited to chat with a ‘big time’ film director.
Speaking out: In December, Wilson revealed she has been the victim of sexual harassment twice by a ‘big time’ movie director and an actor on the set of one of her films
‘I literally thought I was going to have a meeting about comedy and talk about comedy,’ she recalled. ‘He kept trying to give me more and more alcohol.’
The star stated that the director received a phone call during the meeting from his wife, which Rebel was able to clearly hear.
‘She started saying, “you’ve got Rebel in that hotel room, you were going to sleep with her…” I heard the message. That was the first time I thought, “oh my god, what is this? What’s going on?”‘
Shocking: The second instance of sexual harassment occurred on a movie set Rebel was on in Los Angeles, when she was randomly invited to a male co-star’s trailer; seen in 2020
Rebel proceeded to quickly leave the hotel room and never spoke of the encounter again.
The second instance of sexual harassment occurred on a movie set Rebel was on in Los Angeles, when she was randomly invited to a male co-star’s trailer.
The actress revealed that the actor dropped his pants as she entered the trailer and asked her to perform an inappropriate act as his male friends filmed the meeting with their phones.
Brave: Rebel says she now has the ‘courage’ to be speak out against ‘disgusting’ and inappropriate behavior; seen last February
‘I was in shock, I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ Just kept saying, ‘no, what is this?’ Like, ‘no, no, no’,’ Wilson explained.
‘His buddies are laughing and he’s kind of clearly getting off on it.’
Rebel’s agent reported the incident to the studio, who revealed it was the fourth complaint they had received about the unnamed actor.
Rebel says she now has the ‘courage’ to be speak out against ‘disgusting’ and inappropriate behavior.
GTA Trilogy Still Has 20-Year-Old Giant Car Glitch, Fans Find
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition may have shredded some signature tunes from the series’ radio stations, and may, in just about every conceivable way, make the descriptor of “Definitive” sound like a joke, but—at the very least—you can still make an invulnerable, wiggly, and constantly swelling car in GTA III. This glitch, unlike the game’s incredibly ugly rain, weird draw distance, and rounded nuts, cannot be blamed on a rushed remaster. Rather, it’s a holdover from Grand Theft Auto III’s original release.
The glitch, which shows a car slowly increasing in size as the driver wiggles it back and forth, is actually the second part in a three-part glitch which makes cars immune to collision damage, which you can perform through this involved setup.
To begin, you have to find a taxi. Finding a taxi will allow you to enter a taxi mission, which in turn allows you to pick up the passenger you’ll need later. Once you’ve entered the taxi, hold R3 (the button in your right thumbstick), and exit the vehicle while still holding R3. If you get into a vehicle while still holding R3, you can start using any vehicle as a taxi.
Once you begin your taxi mission, pick up a passenger and take them to the car crusher in Harwood. Park your car with the driver’s side door facing the crusher and then exit the vehicle. With a passenger inside, you won’t be allowed to exit through their door, so instead you just teleport out. The car crusher will then attempt to grab the not-taxi, passenger in tow, at which point you should enter the vehicle. Once the game realizes that you’re in the car, the crusher will drop the car and the glitch will be active.
Your car now phases through non-terrain objects, including buildings. It will also slowly increase in size, which can be sped up by quickly wiggling it as you drive. The car will keep growing until you reset it by falling through the world geometry.
There’s a third, much simpler part of this glitch. Once your car becomes a ghost, you can store it in your garage. Storing a ghost car in your garage will re-enable its object collision, but will disable collision damage. This makes the car effectively invincible, barring any shootouts.
Russia ditches 20-year-old space station module to clear way for lab’s arrival
A Russian Progress cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station early Monday, taking with it the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment to clear the way for Thursday’s arrival of Russia’s new Nauka multipurpose lab module.
With the Progress MS-16/77P supply ship firmly locked to Pirs, hooks and latches holding the docking compartment to the Zvezda service module’s Earth-facing port were commanded open, and the Progress backed away at 6:55 a.m. EDT.
After moving a safe distance away, the Progress fired its thrusters at 10:01 a.m., setting up a destructive plunge into the atmosphere 41 minutes later. The braking burn was planned to make sure any debris that might survive reentry heating would fall harmlessly into the southern Pacific Ocean.
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Undocking originally was planned for last Friday, two days after Nauka’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but problems with the lab’s navigation and propulsion systems prompted Russian flight controllers to delay Pirs’ departure.
Finally, after several anxious days of troubleshooting, Nauka’s propulsion system was restored to normal operation, and two successful tests of its KURS navigation and rendezvous system were carried out. While few details were provided, Russian mission managers then cleared Pirs and Progress for departure.
Pirs was launched on September 14, 2001, three days after the 9/11 attacks. It served as a docking port for visiting Soyuz crew ships and Progress freighters for nearly 20 years and as an airlock for Russian spacewalks.
The much larger 44,000-pound Nauka module features an airlock and docking port, expanded crew quarters, research space, an additional toilet, oxygen generator, solar arrays and a European Space Agency-built robot arm. Nauka’s thrusters also will help provide roll control to keep the station properly oriented.
With the departure of Pirs, NASA flight controllers planned to reposition the station’s Canadian-built robot arm on the Russian Zarya module so it could carry out a seven-hour inspection of the Zvezda module’s now-vacant Earth-facing port. Russian engineers want to make sure no debris or other issues are present that might prevent the docking mechanism from working properly when Nauka arrives.
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Assuming no problems are found, the lab module will complete its rendezvous with the space station Thursday, moving in for docking at Zvezda’s Earth-facing port at 9:24 a.m. It will take up to 11 Russian spacewalks over about seven months to electrically connect and outfit the new lab module.
Nauka’s docking will come the day before a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches a Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsule to the station for an unpiloted test flight. The Atlas 5 rollout to pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is expected Wednesday, setting up a launch at 2:53 p.m. Friday.
The Starliner, like SpaceX’s already operational Crew Dragon spacecraft, is designed to carry U.S. and partner-agency astronauts to and from the space station on a commercial basis, helping end NASA’s post-shuttle reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for crew transportation.
An initial Starliner test flight in December 2019 had major software problems, prompting Boeing to launch a second unpiloted test flight before the ship’s first planned launch with a crew on board late this year or early next year.
For the test flight, the Starliner will dock at the front end of the station’s forward Harmony module, returning to a White Sands, New Mexico, landing on August 5.
Diablo II: Resurrected will let you import your 20-year-old savegames
Blizzard wasn’t kidding when it told Polygon that the new remastered Diablo II would be faithful to the original. You’ll even be able to pick up where you left off with your 20-year-old savegames, IGN Middle East reports.
“Yes! Yes, keep those!” producer Matthew Cederquist told journalists, saying that the team called it “the best feature ever.”
As a lapsed player myself, the very idea is giving me chills — dangerous ones, ones that I imagine are akin to what Gollum felt in The Lord of the Rings when he decided to pull The One Ring off his brother’s throttled corpse. I thought I could safely leave this game behind, but no. It seems I may need to track down an old friend soon.
Staying the hell away from this.
True story: I had to give my fairly valuable account and discs to a friend sworn to never, ever return them, because I kept seeing unique items in my dreamshttps://t.co/t7V7Oa26SH
— Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) February 19, 2021
For the rest of the original game’s fanbase, though, this might be incredible news: players like me spent large amounts of time grinding Diablo II’s bosses and levels to dust searching for unique items, not to mention selling them online and trading them inside a game that wasn’t really designed for that sort of thing. (One particular rare item, the Stone of Jordan, was actually used as a makeshift form of currency.)
Now, all of that progress is theoretically yours instead of having to start from scratch, and it might even be portable, too: theoretically, the game’s cross-save abilities across PC and console mean you could even load up your OG save on a Nintendo Switch.
Blizzard told our sister site Polygon that the remaster basically is the original game, so it’s not too surprising that original saves still function:
This isn’t a remake,” said Fergusson. “We’re not reverse-engineering it; we’re not rebuilding it and trying to make it look and sound like [Diablo 2]. This is [Diablo 2]. […] It’s right there, underneath the surface. The entire simulation, the engine for this game, that lifeblood of this game, is [Diablo 2] right underneath. So there’s a toggle switch, a legacy toggle, that when you press the button, you’ll see behind the curtains, and there is Diablo 2 in 2D sprites running right there, and you can play the way that you played 20 years ago.”
“[W]e kind of shoved it in and it worked!” the team told IGN Middle East.
20-year-old man pronounced dead in front of
Winston-Salem police are searching for answers in the death of a 20-year-old man.According to police, around 12:35 a.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Hedgecock Avenue to assist Emergency Medical Services personnel about an unresponsive person.Click the video player above to view video from the sceneWhen they arrived, officers learned the victim had been pronounced deceased at the scene by Emergency Medical Services, “due to unknown causes.”The victim has been identified as Javier Garcia Morales, 20, of Winston-Salem. The address where Morales was found unresponsive is the same address listed for Morales’ home.”Authorities are asking that anyone with information regarding this investigation contact the Winston-Salem Police Department at 336-773-7700 or CrimeStoppers at 336-727-2800. CrimeStoppers may also be contacted via “Crime Stoppers of Winston-Salem” on Facebook,” a news release said.
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Winston-Salem police are searching for answers in the death of a 20-year-old man.
According to police, around 12:35 a.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Hedgecock Avenue to assist Emergency Medical Services personnel about an unresponsive person.
Click the video player above to view video from the scene
When they arrived, officers learned the victim had been pronounced deceased at the scene by Emergency Medical Services, “due to unknown causes.”
The victim has been identified as Javier Garcia Morales, 20, of Winston-Salem. The address where Morales was found unresponsive is the same address listed for Morales’ home.
“Authorities are asking that anyone with information regarding this investigation contact the Winston-Salem Police Department at 336-773-7700 or CrimeStoppers at 336-727-2800. CrimeStoppers may also be contacted via “Crime Stoppers of Winston-Salem” on Facebook,” a news release said.
Robinhood sued by family of Alex Kearns, 20-year-old trader who killed himself
Robinhood was sued Monday for wrongful death by the family of Alex Kearns, a 20-year-old customer who took his life last summer after believing he had racked up big losses on the millennial-favored stock trading app.
“This case centers on Robinhood’s aggressive tactics and strategy to lure inexperienced and unsophisticated investors, including Alex, to take big risks with the lure of tantalizing profits,” said the complaint filed by his parents Dan and Dorothy Kearns, and his sister Sydney Kearns in a California state court in Santa Clara. The family is based in Naperville, Illinois.
Robinhood’s “reckless conduct directly and proximately caused the death of one of its victims,” the complaint said. The lawsuit is also accusing the brokerage of negligent infliction of emotional distress and unfair business practices.
Alex Kearns, a then-sophomore at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, committed suicide in June after thinking he had a negative $730,165 cash balance on Robinhood.
The complaint alleges that Kearns misunderstood the Robinhood financial statement and was protecting his family from the financial obligation.
The suit says that Kearns made three attempts to contact Robinhood customer service regarding the massive underwater balance.
However, his messages were met with automated replies, according to the complaint.
In a note to his family that CNBC has seen, Kearns accused Robinhood of allowing him to pile on too much risk. He claimed the puts he bought and the shares sold “should have cancelled out,” according to the note.
Puts are options that give the owner the right to sell a security at a specified price.
The trader said he had “no clue” what he was doing, according to the note.
“How was a 20 year old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars worth of leverage?” read the note Kearns wrote to his family. “There was no intention to be assigned this much and take this much risk, and I only thought that I was risking the money that I actually owned.”
A Robinhood spokesperson told CNBC, “We were devastated by Alex Kearns’ death. Since June, we’ve made improvements to our options offering.”
Robinhood has become a popular entry point to the stock market for first-time investors. It has grown from 1 million users in 2016 to more than 13 million last spring. Amid the Reddit investor-fueled GameStop drama, traffic analysis site SimilarWeb estimates 3 million more users downloaded Robinhood in January alone.
Robinhood, which is run by CEO Vlad Tenev, has come under scrutiny for its “gamification” of investing and alleged predatory marketing practices.
Robinhood is also facing class-action lawsuits from clients after the app’s decision to restrict trading in certain securities during the recent GameStop controversy. The brokerage firm, which has plans to go public in 2021, has repeatedly said that the majority of its users are long-term investors.
Robinhood, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the retail trading boom in 2020, has also come under scrutiny for the access it gives its clients without proper investing education. Last year, Massachusetts regulators filed a complaint against Robinhood, accusing the trading app of predatory marketing on inexperienced investors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the brokerage in December with misleading customers about how the stock-trading app makes money and failing to deliver the promised best execution of trades.
The Kearns’ family complaint says, “Not only did Robinhood permit Alex to open the account, but when Alex was a freshman in college later that year, it permitted him to trade options.”
“Worse, Robinhood provided almost no investment guidance, and its customer ‘service’ was virtually non-existent, consisting of automated e-mail replies devoid of any human contact or interaction,” the family alleged in the suit.
Here’s Robinhood’s full statement regarding the lawsuit.
“We were devastated by Alex Kearns’ death. Since June, we’ve made improvements to our options offering. These include adding the ability to exercise contracts in the app, guidance to help customers through early assignment, updates to how we display buying power, more educational materials on options, and new financial criteria and revised experience requirements for new customers seeking to trade Level 3 options. In early December, we also added live voice support for customers with an open options position or recent expiration, and plan to expand to other use cases. We also changed our protocol to escalate customers who email us for help with exercise and early assignment. We remain committed to making Robinhood a place to learn and invest responsibly.”
— with reporting from CNBC’s Dan Mangan and Kate Rooney.
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