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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
An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: A few days ago, we spotted that the HP Smart App was being installed on people’s PCs without their consent. Even worse, the app would reappear if users tried to uninstall it or clean-installed Wi… Continue reading A Windows Update Bug Is Renaming Everyone’s Printers To HP M101-M106
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts. The flaw, affecting virtually all modern Intel… Continue reading Intel Fixes High-Severity CPU Bug That Causes ‘Very Strange Behavior’
In a rare move, Apple hit pause on development of next year’s software updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices so that it could root out glitches in the code. From a report: The delay, announced internally to employees last week, was meant … Continue reading Apple Delays Work on Next Year’s iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs
“Earlier this month, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. after invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in the Leimert Park neighborhood,” notes The Hill. Officials … Continue reading Millions of Fruit Flies Will Be Dropped On Los Angeles
Richard Speed reports via The Register: Asahi Linux, a project to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, has reported a combination of bugs in Apple’s macOS that could leave users with hardware in a difficult-to-recover state. The issues revolve around how … Continue reading Asahi Linux Goes From Apple Silicon Port Project To macOS Bug Hunters
One of the things ssh can do is execute a command on a remote server. Most of us expect it to work transparently when doing so, simply passing the command …read more Continue reading SSH Can Handle Spaces In Command-line Arguments Strangely