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Hardware
Intel Promises To Stop Its Firmware Bricking SSDs
11:00AM Rosa Golijan | A few weeks ago, Intel pulled a firmware update the day after it came out because many users running 64-bit Windows 7 found that it bricked their SSDs. Whoops. The good news though is that Intel has acknowledged and replicated the bug, and is working on a fix. The bad news? There’s no timeline for when the fix will come out. [Reg Hardware]
Cameras
Canon 7D’s Continuous Mode May Retain Ghost Images
10:39AM Dan Nosowitz | In continuous mode, Canon’s 7D DSLR sometimes carries over ghost images from the previous shot, which sounds kinda cool but probably isn’t cool at all to serious photogs. Canon should offer a fix via firmware upgrade soon. [Cameratown via Crunchgear]
Software
Microsoft Acknowledges Problems With Win7 Student Ed. Upgrades
9:47AM Chris Jacob | If you’ve been eyeing the downloadable student edition upgrade of Windows 7 with that sweet, sweet $US29/AU$50 price, you might want to hold off. Microsoft has acknowledged that downloads from Digital River, the provider of student edition upgrades, are experiencing problems. More »
Software
Google Street View Driver Doomed To Map Hell For All Of Eternity
2:20AM John Herrman | After careening into a wall outside of Rankin, PA, one Street View photographer has been trapped and condemned to send dispatches from a horrifying hellscape, forever. This is the highly empirical theory that the internet, and I, am sticking with. More »
Software
OS X 10.6.2 Beta Addresses Hard Drive Killing Bug
11:31PM Chris Jacob | We know that Apple is aware of the data-annihilating Guest Account bug in Snow Leopard, and it looks like a fix is on the way. The latest 10.6.2 beta seeded to developers specifically addresses the issue, and throws in a few other tweaks for good measure. If you’re staring at that Guest Account on the login screen with fear and loathing, sit tight. Hopefully this will all be resolved soon. [9to5 Mac]
Software
Apple Aware Of Snow Leopard User Account Bug
8:30AM Jason Chen | Apple just passed along this statement, addressing the Snow Leopard user account bug that eats your user account. More »
Software
Reports: Snow Leopard Bug Eats User Accounts Whole
3:00AM John Herrman | A small but understandably very upset group of people are reporting a bug in Snow Leopard that totally wipes out account data without warning. The consensus seems to be that it has something to do with guest accounts: the data loss seems to come directly after using one, and trying to log back into a regular account. More »
Software
Uh Oh: iPhone OS 3.0 Never Fully Deletes Your Emails
6:31AM John Herrman | The iPhone is no stranger to gaping security flaws, but this one’s a doozy: You know how when you delete emails, you expect them to be, well, deleted? On iPhone 3.0, that’s just not how things work. This is bad. More »
Software
Windows 7 Has An Obscure OS-Crashing Memory Bug
8:03AM Matt Buchanan | We never ran into this obscure Windows 7 memory leak bug on our final RTM build: If you run CHKDSK using the “/r” parameter on a secondary drive—not your actual Windows partition—you could crash out the OS. More »
Software
2:47PM Nick Broughall | After yesterday’s post on the iPhone 3.0 group SMS bug, we’ve received a few reports from Optus customers that the bug has been fixed. All you have to do is sync your iPhone with iTunes, press the update button and download the updated carrier settings file. Bam – group SMS is back. Anyone on Voda or Telstra wanna let us know if this works for them?
iPhone Group SMS Bug Seems To Be Fixed
2:47PM Nick Broughall | After yesterday’s post on the iPhone 3.0 group SMS bug, we’ve received a few reports from Optus customers that the bug has been fixed. All you have to do is sync your iPhone with iTunes, press the update button and download the updated carrier settings file. Bam – group SMS is back. Anyone on Voda or Telstra wanna let us know if this works for them? 
