Microsoft issues emergency Windows 11 patch to fix Remote Desktop and audio, but not AMD GPU crashes
Windows is getting patched faster than ever, but users are paying for it
How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998
Oops: Twenty-eight years ago, Pixar nearly lost 90% of Toy Story 2's digital files – not because a system crashed, but because someone ran a routine Unix command that engineers had been using for years without a second thought. The command /bin/rm -r -f instructs the system to recursively delete everything under a directory without asking for confirmation. At Pixar in 1998, it was apparently executed in the wrong location.
Ferrari bet its legacy on an EV designed by Jony Ive. The backlash wiped out $5 billion in a day.
Ferrari wanted its EV to be provocative. Mission accomplished.
A hot potato: Ferrari's long-awaited move into fully electric vehicles landed with an immediate financial jolt. Shares in the company dropped about 8% after the debut of the Luce, wiping out more than $5 billion in market value and signaling investor unease with both the design and the broader strategy. The reaction didn't stop with investors. Within hours of the unveiling, criticism spread across social media, owner forums, and even into Italian politics.
Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Code source, raising security concerns
A packaging error exposed 500,000 lines of code
Arc Raiders bug was saving Discord private chats and login tokens in plaintext files
Embark issues hotfix after Discord integration logged more user data than intended
South Korea's tax office lost millions in crypto after accidentally posting the wallet's master key
A basic security lapse raises bigger questions about crypto oversight
Facepalm: Last month, South Korea's National Police Agency realized that 22 Bitcoin had been missing for years after officials failed to transfer the seized funds to a state-owned wallet. Now the country's National Tax Service has stumbled into an even more damaging mistake – effectively handing cybercriminals the keys to confiscated crypto.
Microsoft blocks the word 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord, and the server melts down
What started as spam control became a microcosm of the company's broader AI struggle
Dutch police arrest man on hacking charges after sending him confidential files by mistake
He allegedly tried to blackmail the cops, too
Vibe coding dream turns to nightmare as Replit deletes developer's database
Beware of putting too much faith into AI coding
Signal defends itself after US military officials leak classified plans by mistake on group chat
The most secure messaging app - until someone invites a journalist
Facepalm: Signal likes to present itself as the most private and secure messaging service around, but the nonprofit likely didn't design the app for sharing classified plans regarding imminent military action. Yet earlier this month, senior US government and military officials did just that. Signal's president later defended the service amid renewed comparisons to WhatsApp.
Windows 11 beta update is making some printers spit out gibberish
Printer ink is too expensive to waste
Citigroup nearly credited client with $81 trillion instead of $280
The error slipped past two levels of scrutiny before it was caught
Microsoft's own Copilot will tell you how to activate Windows 11 without a license
AI-powered activation hack?
Man who lost $750 million Bitcoin in landfill now wants to buy the site
If at first you don't succeed...
In brief: James Howells, the man who has spent more than a decade trying to recover a hard drive containing more than $750 million worth of Bitcoin from a landfill, is not giving up on his quest for fortune. After a judge threw out his request to dig at the site last month, Howells is now considering buying the facility, which is due to be closed.
Mislabeled patch sends Windows Server 2022 admins on unwanted upgrade to 2025
No easy rollback or official downgrade path available
Samsung bricked many Galaxy phones with boot-loop inducing update
Samsung's Korean support team can fix the glitch, but US support can't bother to pick up the phone
A typo might be the reason for the Zen 5 delay – meanwhile, the 9950X scores a record 6.5GHz in Cinebench
Reports indicate all CPUs were mistakenly labeled as "Ryzen 9"
Debris from the International Space Station confirmed to have hit a Florida home
Spent ISS batteries hit the surface around the Gulf of Mexico
Asus apologizes after bad router update causes widespread issues
A corrupted definition file resulted in network connectivity breaks
Microsoft Teams communication platform suffered a temporary outage due to an expired SSL certificate
When tech giants make embarrasing mistakes
Google trainee costs company $10 million after hitting the wrong key
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