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