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Bug reporting doesn’t usually have a lot of visuals. Not so with the visionOS bug [Ryan Pickren] found, which fills a user’s area with screeching bats after visiting a malicious …read more Continue reading Bats Can No Longer Haunt Apple VR Headsets Via Web Exploit
When a ransomware attack targets something like a hospital, it quickly becomes a high-profile event that understandably results in public outrage. Hospitals are supposed to be backstops for society, a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024
The New York Stock Exchange said Monday it was investigating a “technical issue” that was leading to large fluctuations in the prices of certain stocks including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. From a report: According to a notice posted on its we… Continue reading NYSE Investigating ‘Technical Issue’ That Showed Berkshire Hathaway Share Price Dropping 99%
Let’s face it — electronics are hard. Difficult concepts, tiny parts, inscrutable datasheets, and a hundred other factors make it easy to screw up in new and exciting ways. Sometimes …read more Continue reading Chip Mystery: The Case of the Purloined Pin
The macOS Sonoma 14.4 update introduces a bug affecting iCloud Drive’s versioning system, where users with “Optimize Mac Storage” enabled can lose all previous versions of a file removed from local storage. MacRumors reports: Versions are normally crea… Continue reading macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug ‘Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive’
Bill Toulas reports via BleepingComputer: Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company’s products and services. Though this is lower than the $12 million Goo… Continue reading Google Paid $10 Million In Bug Bounty Rewards Last Year
A software error on the part of Firefly Aerospace doomed Lockheed Martin’s Electronic Steerable Antenna (ESA) demonstrator to a shorter-than-expected orbital life following a botched Alpha launch. From a report: According to Firefly’s mission update, t… Continue reading Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari
Fujitsu has apologized for its role in the British Post Office scandal, acknowledging that its buggy accounting software contributed to the wrongful prosecutions of hundreds of postal employees. From a report: “Fujitsu would like to apologize for our p… Continue reading Fujitsu is Sorry That Its Software Helped Send Innocent People To Prison
“Researchers have identified a large number of bugs to do with the processing of images at boot time,” writes longtime Slashdot reader jd. “This allows malicious code to be installed undetectably (since the image doesn’t have to pass any validation che… Continue reading Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into an “interrogato… Continue reading Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them