23965 shaares
647 results
tagged
horrorstories
Divers and academics offer £1,500 for the return of a computer containing 3D mapping data from HMS Royal Oak.
A hacked Nest camera broadcast the fake warning about incoming North Korean missiles, sending a family into “five minutes of sheer terror.”
Updated: An Oklahoma Department of Securities server allowed anyone to download government files.
Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine.
In 2018, a remote Alaskan community’s infrastructure was hit by a malware attack which forced it offline. It was only then they realised how much they depended on computers.
Garbage in, garbage out when it comes to big data analysis of language and culture.
More on Project Bamboo.
Yet another Amazon S3 screwup.
A machine-learning model showed promising results, but city officials and their engineering contractor abandoned it.
Good example of a totally crappy incident notification. Students could rip it apart in class! Via Twitter: "- Instant attribution to North Korea - Reference to 9/11 terrorist attacks - Needless use of “sophisticated” - Claiming detection wasn’t possible - Reference other victims to note defense is hard"
Emails and documents from the King and Baldacci administrations are likely gone forever or nearly impossible to access.
3ve used addresses of unsuspecting owners—like the US Air Force.
Facebook’s tone-deaf response to a woman who continued to be bombarded by parenting ads after her son was stillborn highlights big tech’s bro-gramming problem
Horribly misdesigned wordmarks.
CONTENT WARNING: mention of transphobic garbage (thankfully not actually reproduced)
Don't put the damn private key on the same thing it's supposed to unlock. FFS.
WordPress has a brand new content editor called “Gutenberg” that is going to shape WordPress for years to come. In this article, Andy Bell explains why it’s a movement and not just a new editor.
When Rian Rietveld resigned from the WordPress accessibility team on October 9, I decided to track the fallout in an ongoing Twitter thread. The subsequent weeks and days proved to be wonderful insight into how a project can suffer when accessibility is not built in from the start. When subject…
City says cash forfeitures not in flagship PETS system; police say PETS backed up.
DON'T USE SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ARCHIVE FFS. What did this dimwitted nimrod THINK was gonna happen?!