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Firefox bug: Now I Feel For Dev George [update]

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Well, what started out as a humorous slant on an unsuspecting web dev (probably someone who was pressed into service to build a web...

FailDesk – Nominated For SysAdmin Blog Award [info]

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FailDesk has been shortlisted for a SysAdmin Blog Award - Most Humorous Blog You read that correctly! We were chosen as a finalist for the...

Amazon S3: Taken Down By Typo [news]

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Thousands of websites down, trillions of objects unavailable to cloud customers - all taken offline by a mistake in a command and fixed by...

New Gmail Phishing Attack [news]

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Wordfence (a cyber security firm) reported a Phishing scam that targets Gmail users. They are calling it "highly effective." The attackers send an email to your Gmail...

Carrie Fisher, Passes Away At Age 60 [news]

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Carrie Fisher passed away days after suffering a heart attack while traveling. Rest in peace to one of the icons that helped shape this...
Malwarebytes Acquires AdwCleaner

Malwarebytes Acquires AdwCleaner [news]

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Malwarebytes acquires AdwCleaner! It's also bringing two of its developers Jérôme Boursier and Corentin Chepeau onto their engineering and research team. AdwCleaner is a removal tool for: PUPs,...

“Safe” Samsung Note 7 Catches Fire On An Airplane [news]

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On October 5th a passenger aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Kentucky had his phone catch fire in the cabin prior to departure. The phone in...

RIM (BlackBerry) To Stop Making Smartphones [news]

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RIM announced today they will stop making smartphones and tablets. Their focus will be software and licensed services. I remember the good old days of...

Tech news flashback: I think we know the answer to this.

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I saw a photo linking to this article on Imgur the other day via the NYT and I felt it was worth commenting on. Stated...

Guy builds video game in Excel. In other news, least efficient game designer...

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BBC reports that an accountant (of course) named Cary Walkin developed a fantasy turn-based RPG in Excel(!) over the course of 4 months while...