Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘bug’
If the “accept” bug we encountered this week taught us anything about Twitter, it showed us who users are most desperate to have follow them back . As a refresher, yesterday’s bug allowed users to tweet, for example, “accept mashable.” This would then make the account @mashable automatically follow the user who sent out that tweet. While many users saw that they were suddenly following a few new accounts, certain well-known Twitter users were bombarded with hundreds of new follows
May 13, 2010 | Posted in
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We’ve definitely had some hit-or-miss experiences with the Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator chip in various Atom-powered netbooks, but it sounds like some Eee PC 1005PR buyers are having a different sort of bad day entirely, as ASUS is apparently shipping some systems without the chip installed at all. That’s at least the word according to several reviews on Amazon, and ASUS is apparently directing people to return the machines for a refund or replacement
May 12, 2010 | Posted in
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According to an e-mail we received this morning, the Twitter bug and ensuing 0 followers/0 following fiasco was inadvertently started by a Turkish fan of heavy metal band Accept .
May 10, 2010 | Posted in
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Chinese carmaker Geely is no stranger to building derivative designs , and its latest PHEV effort takes so much inspiration from Volkswagen’s Beetle that even the press release begins with a metaphor about caterpillars flourishing into butterflies. That’s also a little nod to the car’s development, which has seen its initial design overhauled into the four-seater, photovoltaic cell-laden transporter you see above.
April 28, 2010 | Posted in
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McAfee’s little issue with a security update that sent Windows XP computers far and wide to a screeching halt was fairly unprecedented as far as anti-virus software goes, and it looks like the company is now taking some considerable steps to make up for the mess it created. Not only is it handing out a free two-year subscription extension to all affected customers, but it will soon be starting a program to reimburse “reasonable expenses” that customers have incurred in repairing their PCs. Complete details on that program aren’t available just yet, but it will apparently be starting “within a few days,” and will involve submitting a reimbursement request to McAfee
April 27, 2010 | Posted in
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So there’s this tiny unpatched bug in VBScript that lets sneaky websites run malicious code on machines running Internet Explorer on Windows XP . It’s triggered when you try to access the help menu by hitting the F1 key
March 3, 2010 | Posted in
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Uh, wow . That PlayStation Network issue that struck late last night has officially ballooned into a full-on PlayStation disaster: Sony is now saying you shouldn’t use “fat” PS3 models at all , since a clock-related bug might cause data loss. The PS3 slim isn’t affected, however — which explains some of the conflicting reports we heard last night
March 1, 2010 | Posted in
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For a device with as much superphone street cred as the Milestone , you’d think a basic task like listening to music through the headphone jack would be a cakewalk. No problems, right
February 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Apple is stirring up yet another censorship brouhaha with its latest changes to App Store policy. The company recently began blocking screenshots for apps that are outside the acceptable age range in Parental Controls in iTunes. According to iPhone developer ChiliFresh, it seems that all “overtly sexual” apps might be expunged from the App Store too, which is making some users uneasy about Apple’s “power” once again
February 20, 2010 | Posted in
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Week in Apple: Aperture 3, Mac Pro heat, and Macworld Expo Apple released a long-awaited and surprising update to Aperture, addressed a long-standing audio-CPU bug affecting Nehalem Mac Pros, and told iPhone developers to steer clear of using location data just to serve ads. Meanwhile, Google released a new Chrome beta, and Opera bragged about [...]
February 13, 2010 | Posted in
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