Welcome to this week’s Quotes of the Week: AMD bug, Hello Barbie could be hacked, software bug in trains in India and more.
AMD’s Radeon Software Crimson Edition Major Bug
“AMD is aware of isolated reports of low fan states following the installation of Radeon Software ‘Crimson Edition’ on select Radeon GPUs. Its engineering teams have identified and addressed this issue”
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Bug Causes Train Issues in India
“When we reached the station, we received our confirmed tickets from the IRCTC counter on platform number 16. We received a rude shock when we discovered that others had already occupied our seats as they too had been allotted the same berths as was clear from their tickets.”
Sanjay Nanda one of the passengers affected by the software bug that allowed for duplicate tickets to be printed for train journeys in India recently. Read More here
It’s Just A Bug, Instagram Users
“Instagram says that the app “experienced a bug” that triggered the action and inaccurate error notification.”
Instagram users were logged out of the app last week. Many thought their accounts had been hacked but it just turned out to be a software bug that caused the issue. Read More here
Browse the Old Internet
“It not only grabs an archived version of the website, but gives you a choice of old browsers for the visit.”
If you want to carry out some web testing on Internet Explorer 4.0 then this site is for you. Oldweb.today lets you browse old webistes through a number of old browsers. Read More here
Hello Barbie hacked!
“Mattel and ToyTalk have built in many privacy and security measures, and we are committed to providing the safest possible experience for parents and children”
A comment from the makers of the software for Hello Barbie (ToyTalk) and it’s owners who have revealed that the software for Hello Barbie (which acts like a child version of Siri) was successfully hacked by a security researcher recently. Read More here
