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Software

Apple’s Latest OS X Update Fixes More Messages Bugs

Apple today released OS X 10.8.4, an update that (again) addresses some issues with Messages, among other small bugs. Apparently, an iMessage quirk was causing some messages to show up out of order on the app. Also included in the update is a new version of Safari (6.0.5), better support for Microsoft Exchange in the calendar, and a hiccup that was blocking international numbers on the FaceTime app.

3 June 2013

Geek Out

Watch A Scorpion Sting A Guy In Painful Slow Motion

The beauty of slow motion is that it lets you see and analyse every detail of anything in a much more digestible package. Explosions become a dance, athletic achievements become more thoughtful, life becomes even more interesting and idiotic behaviour gets more hilarious. Watching a guy get stung by a scorpion in slow motion? Yeah, that’s hilarious.

16 May 2013

Geek Out

This Clever Bug Spray Billboard Is Actually A Giant Insect Trap

What better way is there to advertise the effectiveness of your insecticide spray than with a billboard that also happens to double as a gigantic bug trap?

3 May 2013

Gadgets

Should It Be Illegal To Exploit A Video Poker Bug And Win Big?

A Las Vegas District Court judge is currently weighing a big question that you may have opinions on: is exploiting a bug on a casino’s video poker machine illegal or not?

8 April 2013

Geek Out

There Is Such Thing As A Cockroach Cam And It’s Just As Gross As You’d Imagine

If you’re one of those people who feel as if you’re undeserving of love and/or enjoy torturing yourself for fun, here’s something new to add to your self-mutilation bag o’ tricks: watch a 24/7/365 Cockroach Cam. It’s the worst thing on the internet right now. I also can’t stop watching.

11 March 2013

Software

Kaspersky Bug Can Freeze Your PC

Uh-oh. A remote exploit bug in Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 can cause your PC to lock up entirely. I thought the point of modern malware was that you weren’t going to notice it was there?

4 March 2013

Online

Thanks To HTML5, This Website Can Fill Your Whole Hard Drive With Trash

Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this site can and will fill your entire hard drive with trash.

15 February 2013

mobile

iOS 6.1 Security Risk: Anyone Can Bypass Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

So, iOS 6.1 hasn’t been Apple’s finest hour. So far it has been plagued with connection issues, battery woes, and now it’s sadly insecure too. You can bypass any lockcode on an iPhone using this straightforward sequence of button presses.

14 February 2013

software

Google Finds Most Of The Vulnerabilities In Microsoft’s Latest Patch

Microsoft just released a giant “Patch Tuesday” bulletin for the month. Weird thing about this update? More than half of the bugs found in Microsoft products were reported by none other than Google engineers.

8 February 2013

Computing

A Facebook Bug Pretty Much Just Took Down The Entire Internet

If you thought the internet freaked out for a little bit and every site you went to was down, you’re not alone. Major websites were down: CNN, Huffington Post, ESPN, Gawker, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, etc. were all broken. Why? Because of a glitch with Facebook.

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