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New iPhone software makes ‘data use and bills rocket’
iPhone users who have upgraded to Apple’s new iOS 6 software have been complaining that their mobile bills have rocketed after data usage has shot up – possibly due to a bug in how the OS switches...
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Software Bug, Cascading Failures Caused Amazon Outage
A software bug in a data collection agent for Amazon’s Elastic Block Storage (EBS) system triggered last Monday’s service outage for many services running on Amazon Web Services, the company said...
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HP software bug makes printers pwned
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in HP printer software potentially allowing the theft of documents and the bricking of networked machines. The bugs affect HP’s JetDirect software which allows...
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CEO Brodsky says software bug delayed CBOE trading
A memo from the CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange to clients Monday pointed to an unresolved software bug as the cause of last Thursday’s outage at the exchange. In the memo, CEO Bill Brodsky...
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Microsoft warns of major bug in Internet Explorer
Microsoft is rushing to fix a security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that is already being used in “limited, targeted attacks,” as antivirus firms and the U.S. government advise switching to...
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Software bug disrupts e-vote count in Belgian election
A bug in an e-voting application halted the release of European, federal and regional election results in Belgium, the country’s interior ministry said Monday. On Sunday, problems occurred when...
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CDI software bug blamed for unusual ATG betting activity
Sweden’s state-owned horse racing operator AB Trav och Galopp (ATG) has blamed a glitch in Churchill Downs Incorporated’s (CDI) online wagering software for unusual betting activity that led to high...
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Apple iOS 8 software bug affects health apps
A bug in Apple’s new iOS 8 software for mobile devices is prompting the company to withhold apps that use a highly touted feature for keeping track of fitness and health data. Apple says it hopes to...
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Software bug bugs Apple: Company forced to delay launch of HealthKit apps for...
A software bug has put a dampener on Apple’s release of the new iOS 8 operating system, as it has forced the company to delay the launch of several HealthKit fitness apps. This is quite a blow for...
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iPhone woes mount as Apple pulls iOS 8 software update after users report...
Apple has pulled its new iOS 8 software update after furious users reported that the upgrade broke their new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices – robbing them of cell signal, data service and the Touch...
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Security experts expect ‘Shellshock’ software bug to be significant
Long before the commercial success of the Internet, Brian J Fox invented one of its most widely used tools. In 1987, Fox, then a young programmer, wrote Bash, short for Bourne-Again Shell, a free piece...
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Apple: Most OS X users shouldn’t worry about Shellshock
Apple has admitted that most OS X users have nothing to be concerned about when it comes to the bug that has been dubbed “worse than Heartbleed”. In a statement the firm admitted that it is already...
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Hackers Used Windows Bug to Spy on Ukraine Officials
For months this summer, unidentified hackers used a previously unknown hole in Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.86% ’s Windows operating system to spy on Ukrainian officials and an American academic, according...
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Beware Microsoft Office! Software contains dangerous bug that could let...
Many of us know not to click random links that are sent in emails or on Facebook, but now we’re being warned to be on our guard against dangerous files, too. Microsoft has discovered a vulnerability in...
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‘Intelligence-gathering’ bug alert
Complex malware designed to collect information about people and organisations has been discovered. Symnatec, the internet security company which claims to have found the bug, says it can take...
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Software bug forces AT&T to recall, send back Nexus 6 inventory
A software bug that causes AT&T-branded Nexus 6 units to randomly reboot, or to not boot up properly has caused the US mobile provider to recall the newly-launched unit from those who have already...
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Cisco FREAKs out, starts epic OpenSSL bug-splat
Cisco admins will be watching and waiting for fixes, with the company announcing that many of its OpenSSL implementations are carrying a bunch of post-POODLE fleas. The Borg has been looking over its...
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787 software bug can shut down planes’ generators
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a new airworthiness directive (PDF) for Boeing’s 787 because a software bug shuts down the plane’s electricity generators every 248 days. “We...
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Airbus issues software bug alert after fatal plane crash
Airbus has issued a critical alert calling for immediate checks on all its A400M aircraft after a report identified a software bug as having caused a fatal crash in Spain earlier this month. The...
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Automatic bug repair
At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by...
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