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Bugs in the wild

We see them, we feel them, we experience them. And it's important we take note of them. Bugs are everywhere.

Simon Tomes

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When the number of meetups happening boundary tests the UI image

When the number of meetups happening boundary tests the UI

Maybe I should stop for today and return home image

Maybe I should stop for today and return home

AI is helping fraudsters pump out scamming campaigns in minutes image

AI is helping fraudsters pump out scamming campaigns in minutes

Berlin artist uses 99 phones to trick Google into traffic jam alert image

Berlin artist uses 99 phones to trick Google into traffic jam alert

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence image

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

Power cut chaos in Spain and Portugal caused by 'rare' atmospheric phenomenon, says operator image

Power cut chaos in Spain and Portugal caused by 'rare' atmospheric phenomenon, says operator

Forwarding Appreciated: A WhatsApp Link Sharing Bug That Cannot Be Reported image

Forwarding Appreciated: A WhatsApp Link Sharing Bug That Cannot Be Reported

Paddy Power High Court case: Gardener wins £1m payout image

Paddy Power High Court case: Gardener wins £1m payout

An observation that might tell us something about what lies beneath the tools we use directly. image

An observation that might tell us something about what lies beneath the tools we use directly.

So, it looks like Twitter (X) has had a bit of a data leak, if you can call 2.8 BILLION users data a bit… image

So, it looks like Twitter (X) has had a bit of a data leak, if you can call 2.8 BILLION users data a bit…

Tech Debt Took Down 4chan (Not Hackers) image

Tech Debt Took Down 4chan (Not Hackers)

M&S stops online orders following cyber attack image

M&S stops online orders following cyber attack

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon image

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon

Apple, Meta fined as EU presses ahead with tech probes image

Apple, Meta fined as EU presses ahead with tech probes

4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War image

4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War

Hackers are hitting firewalls and VPNs to breach businesses image

Hackers are hitting firewalls and VPNs to breach businesses

Harrods latest retailer to be hit by cyber attack image

Harrods latest retailer to be hit by cyber attack

'They wanted $4m': Lessons for M&S from other cyber attacks image

'They wanted $4m': Lessons for M&S from other cyber attacks

High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake image

High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake

Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost image

Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says image

CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says

This emoji message instantly freezes some iPhones image

This emoji message instantly freezes some iPhones

In the news: Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack image

In the news: Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack

Pinterest says mass account bans were caused by an ‘internal error’ image

Pinterest says mass account bans were caused by an ‘internal error’

Some Tesco customers report problems with app and website image

Some Tesco customers report problems with app and website

'They yanked their own plug': How Co-op averted an even worse cyber attack image

'They yanked their own plug': How Co-op averted an even worse cyber attack

M&S cyber-attack disruption to last until July image

M&S cyber-attack disruption to last until July

Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS image

Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to CEO image

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to CEO

Bugs in the Wild: Thousands in Norway told they won up to millions in lottery error image

Bugs in the Wild: Thousands in Norway told they won up to millions in lottery error

The inside story of a council held to ransom in cyber-attack image

The inside story of a council held to ransom in cyber-attack

Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years image

Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years

AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash image

AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash

Cursor YOLO deleted everything in my computer image

Cursor YOLO deleted everything in my computer

A glitch is turning Threads into a literal echo chamber image

A glitch is turning Threads into a literal echo chamber

One of Whoop's new wearables has a bug so bad the company is issuing replacements image

One of Whoop's new wearables has a bug so bad the company is issuing replacements

Hackers target the Co-op as police probe M&S cyber attack image

Hackers target the Co-op as police probe M&S cyber attack

Microsoft Lies image

A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List image

A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List

Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use” image

Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use”

FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials image

FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials

Nvidia confirms another black screen bug, and it’s a nasty one hitting RTX 5060 GPUs this time – but a fix has been r... image

Nvidia confirms another black screen bug, and it’s a nasty one hitting RTX 5060 GPUs this time – but a fix has been rushed out

Top math software and services platform still offline following ransomware attack image

Top math software and services platform still offline following ransomware attack

Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024 image

Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024

*Generative AI is experimental* image

*Generative AI is experimental*

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen image

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records image

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon image

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon

'Human error' - Wimbledon sorry over missed line calls image

'Human error' - Wimbledon sorry over missed line calls

Heathrow considering legal action against National Grid over fire image

Heathrow considering legal action against National Grid over fire

Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' Age Verification image

Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' Age Verification

Found a Bug in the Wild. Also, a Racist. image

Found a Bug in the Wild. Also, a Racist.

Fix air traffic control by turning it off and on again image

Fix air traffic control by turning it off and on again

Courts service 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing image

Courts service 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing

Afghans resettled in UK hit by new data breach image

Afghans resettled in UK hit by new data breach

Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women image

Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it image

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results image

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search image

Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website image

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

Amazon's AI coding assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to potential system wipe image

Amazon's AI coding assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to potential system wipe

Defect logged but have you called maintainence? image

Defect logged but have you called maintainence?

Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved image

Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved

JLR hack is costliest cyber attack in UK history, say analysts image

JLR hack is costliest cyber attack in UK history, say analysts

Twitter and ChatGPT crash for thousands of users image

Twitter and ChatGPT crash for thousands of users

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server image

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server

Couldn't get enough of this 99 glitch image

Couldn't get enough of this 99 glitch

Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions image

Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions

Simon Tomes

Community Lead at MoTaverse

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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.

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