Lexar Media on Thursday recalled certain flash memory drives made in China over fears they could overheat and burn users or cause property damage.In a joint statement with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Lexar said consumers should stop using the affected products immediately and contact Lexar for a free replacement.The recall involves approximately 66,000 devices from Lexar’s JumpDrive FireFly family of flash drives, and the metallic silver colored 1GB JumpDrive Secure II. The affected JumpDrive FireFly flash memory drives were sold between April and May for between US$30 and $110. The recalled JumpDrive Secure devices were sold only at Fry’s Electronics in May, for $80, the company said. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe Users can find additional information by calling a toll-free hotline at +1-800-248-2798. The number is not free for users calling from outside the United States. Further information can be found at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s website. -Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content brandpost How AI can deliver eye-opening insights for IT AIOps can leverage machine learning to provide a robust set of proactive predictive analytics capabilities for a wide range of infrastructure. By Carol Wilder, VP of Product Management, Dell Technologies Sep 26, 2023 6 mins Artificial Intelligence brandpost 5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage The cyber skills shortage is not going away anytime soon, despite the progress we are making as an industry to attract new talent. Per the latest “ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study,” we added more than 460,000 warm bodies over the past y By Leonard Kleinman Sep 26, 2023 7 mins IT Leadership brandpost Swiss energy services company uses machine learning to see the future Swiss energy company IWB wants a renewable future, but its technology for measuring solar power production was outdated. SAP’s machine learning (ML) and other tools have resulted in accurate forecasts. By Keith E. Greenberg, SAP Contributor Sep 26, 2023 5 mins Artificial Intelligence feature 6 IT rules worth breaking — and how to get away with it IT is a discipline of policies, protocols, and firm guidelines. But sometimes breaking bad is the only logical thing to do. Here’s how to do so while mitigating risks. By John Edwards Sep 26, 2023 8 mins IT Strategy IT Leadership IT Management Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe