An Etsy bill payment error resulted in large amounts of money being withdrawn from several sellers’ bank accounts and credit cards on Friday morning. While the company says the issue has been resolved and was not the result of fraud, the headache isn’t over for affected sellers because Monday is a federal holiday in the United […]
View More Etsy error resulted in large amounts being withdrawn from some sellers’ bank accounts and credit cardsCategory: Bug
Instagram users are losing millions of followers due to a bug
Several Instagram users on Wednesday woke up to find their follower counts significantly decreased.
Many of the app’s most popular celebrities experienced a significant drop in followers due to a glitch.
“We’re aware of an issue that is causing a change in account follower numbers for some people right now,” Instagram said in a tweet. “We’re working to resolve this as quickly as possible.”
The Instagram bug has eaten away at the follower counts of many of the site’s top users. For example, Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber lost 1.9 million and 1.7 million followers respectively.
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Instagram confirms that a bug is causing follower counts to change
Instagram confirmed today that an issue has been causing some accounts’ follower numbers to change. Users began noticing the bug about 10 hours ago and the drastic drop in followers caused some to wonder if Instagram was culling inactive and fake accounts, as part of its fight against spam. We’re aware of an issue that […]
View More Instagram confirms that a bug is causing follower counts to changeTwitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timeline
A number of Twitter users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared. Instead, the company confirmed that a bug affecting Android users was mislabeling the […]
View More Twitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timelineTwitter bug that made your private tweets public went unnoticed for over 4 years
Twitter users with an Android device should double- check their accounts, especially if they sent a tweet sometime between 2014 and 2019.
We’ve become aware of and fixed an issue where the “Protect your Tweets” setting was disabled on Twitter for Android. Those affected have been alerted and we’ve turned the setting back on for them. More here: https://t.co/0qM5B1S393
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 17, 2019
In a statement posted on the Twitter help forum on Thursday, the social network disclosed details surrounding a privacy bug that affected Twitter for Android users with protected tweets. Read more…
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Twitter bug revealed some Android users’ private tweets
Twitter accidentally revealed some users’ “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon. The “Protect your Tweets” setting typically allows people to use Twitter in a non-public fashion. These users get to approve who can follow them and who can view their content. For some Android users over a period of several years, that may […]
View More Twitter bug revealed some Android users’ private tweetsMicrosoft says it can recover missing files following botched Windows 10 update
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Microsoft abruptly paused the October 2018 Update of its Windows 10 operating system after reports the new software deleted some users’ files. Luckily, there may still be hope of recovering your deleted files if you were one of the many people affected.
According to head of the Windows Insider program Dona Sarkar, Microsoft support has a few tools to reverse the effects of the update and restore your deleted files. “They have the tools to get you back to a good state,” Sarkar said in a tweet. She also suggested users who discovered missing files call Microsoft support at +1-800-Microsoft for assistance. Read more…
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View More Microsoft says it can recover missing files following botched Windows 10 updateApple’s new iOS 12 beta fixes the annoying ‘please update’ bug
iOS 12 beta testers have been plagued with a frustrating bug that continually pops up messages alerting them that a new iOS update is available when, in fact, it’s not. Apple has now fixed this bug, which is patched in the latest iOS 12 betas rolling out now, we understand. The bug had first made […]
View More Apple’s new iOS 12 beta fixes the annoying ‘please update’ bugYet another Apple bug: 2018 MacBook Pro and iMac Pro users report kernel panic issues
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Things haven’t been going so well for Apple’s new 2018 Macbook Pro.
Owners of Apple’s latest Macbook Pro model are reporting their devices are being hit with multiple kernel panics, some as often as two times a day according to a new 9to5Mac report.
For the uninitiated, a kernel panic is basically when your computer’s operating system detects an internal fatal error which it cannot safely recover from. The computer forces a reboot to minimize the risk of major data loss.
This news of a widespread kernel panic issue affecting 2018 Macbook Pros arrives just as Apple released a fix dealing with another major issue that was being reported the owners of Apple’s latest computer model. Before the Apple issued update, users of the 2018 Macbook Pro were reporting that the computer was running so hot that the Intel Core processors inside the computer were throttling its performance down to low speeds. Apple’s update apparently fixes a bug that was affecting the new Macbook Pro’s thermal management system. Read more…
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View More Yet another Apple bug: 2018 MacBook Pro and iMac Pro users report kernel panic issuesVolkswagen is killing the Beetle for good
Picture me, age 23. I’m shopping around for my first Adult car. While on the Volkswagen lot, surveying sensible Jettas and Passats, a round, enticing shape catches my eye: the Beetle.
Should I? Do I dare? I’m tempted. It’s just so freaking cute! And …
Update for iOS and Macs negates text bomb that crashed devices
Last week we reported a major bug in Apple operating systems that would cause them to crash from mere exposure to either of two specific Unicode symbols. Today Apple fixes this major text-handling issue with iOS version 11.2.6 and macOS version 1…
View More Update for iOS and Macs negates text bomb that crashed devicesPeople are trolling iPhone users with the ‘killer symbol’ that crashes their apps
Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt + F4 trick and a script kiddie stunt and it ranges from being annoying to rendering a device unusable, depending on the tenacity of the troll. The bug causes many iOS and Mac apps to crash when… Read More