Slashdot Items Tagged "oops"

Date / Time Story
Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:45PM Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error
Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:04AM Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download
Friday March 11, 2016 @10:37PM 2 Years Later, Java Security Still Broken By Faulty Oracle Patch
Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:27PM Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot
Monday March 07, 2016 @01:38PM Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Users To Set Other Users' Passwords
Sunday March 06, 2016 @01:12AM Amazon Backpedals On Encryption, But Fire "Still Sucks"
Wednesday March 02, 2016 @08:58PM Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking
Monday February 22, 2016 @11:30PM Database Error Exposes Sensitive Information On 1,700 Kids
Monday February 22, 2016 @10:27AM Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products
Monday February 15, 2016 @05:26PM Hackers Break Into Ringo Starr's Twitter Account With Simple Password Reset
Friday February 05, 2016 @06:41PM Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage
Monday February 01, 2016 @10:08AM Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems
Sunday January 24, 2016 @12:14AM Open-Source Ransomware Abused For the Second Time In Real-Life Infections
Friday January 22, 2016 @08:05PM Civil Construction Wipes Out Internet Connectivity Across Africa
Friday January 08, 2016 @11:03PM Hellfire Missile Mistakenly Shipped To Cuba
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @11:33AM Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses
Sunday October 04, 2015 @12:21PM Vostochny Launch Building Built To the Wrong Size
Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:31PM Crash Chrome With 16 Characters
Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:51AM Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5
Saturday July 25, 2015 @12:22PM Chinese Tourist's Drone Crashes Into Taipei 101 Skyscraper
Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:30PM Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds
Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:06AM There Aren't a Trillion Different Smells After All
Saturday July 04, 2015 @10:53AM Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost?
Friday July 03, 2015 @05:51PM Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV
Friday June 05, 2015 @07:18PM Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair
Thursday April 30, 2015 @12:18PM Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights
Thursday February 19, 2015 @10:45AM Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:23AM Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses
Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:48PM Say Goodbye To That Unwanted U2 Album
Monday September 01, 2014 @08:45AM Update: Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Cancelled
Saturday August 23, 2014 @09:19AM 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit
Friday June 20, 2014 @10:18PM US Marshals Accidentally Reveal Potential Bidders For Gov't-Seized Bitcoin
Saturday May 17, 2014 @12:17PM Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide
Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:43AM Zynga Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role
Monday July 01, 2013 @01:49PM Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable
Friday May 10, 2013 @10:31PM Snapchats Don't Disappear
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @12:44PM Microsoft Azure Failure: SSL Certificates Were Updated... Sort Of
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @12:48PM Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing?
Thursday January 03, 2013 @09:44AM What's In Steve Ballmer's Inbox?
Friday October 19, 2012 @03:51AM Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted
Saturday September 22, 2012 @07:02PM Australian Smart Meter Data Shared Far and Wide
Thursday September 20, 2012 @12:54PM Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware
Monday September 17, 2012 @03:33PM Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas
Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:13PM UPEK Fingerprint Reader Software Puts Windows Passwords At Risk
Friday August 24, 2012 @08:10PM Power Problems Force Seattle To Throttle City Data Center For Days
Friday May 25, 2012 @12:06PM Yahoo Includes Private Key In Source File For Axis Chrome Extension
Thursday November 24, 2011 @09:32AM Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack
Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:33PM German Newscast Confuses Star Trek Terrorists With Navy SEALs
Tuesday April 19, 2011 @08:51PM FAA Suspends 2 for Movie Watching While on Duty
Sunday April 17, 2011 @04:31AM MoD's Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine
Thursday March 17, 2011 @07:21PM RSA's Servers Hacked
Tuesday November 23, 2010 @07:29PM When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone
Friday September 03, 2010 @12:04PM Drunk Courier Loses $1.3M Painting
Wednesday July 28, 2010 @05:22PM Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse
Monday July 05, 2010 @04:08AM BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans
Saturday July 03, 2010 @02:51AM Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station
Wednesday June 02, 2010 @02:59AM BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago
Sunday May 16, 2010 @01:26PM Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Wi-Fi Data While Mapping
Thursday May 13, 2010 @04:19AM Telecom Plan To Take Over the Internet Isn't Real
Wednesday April 28, 2010 @12:53PM Cleaners Paint Over Priceless Art
Monday March 22, 2010 @09:31AM Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs
Thursday March 18, 2010 @05:12PM Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads
Wednesday October 21, 2009 @01:09PM Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released
Tuesday October 20, 2009 @12:09AM Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine
Wednesday October 14, 2009 @08:34AM Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet
Thursday September 24, 2009 @01:38PM ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands
Wednesday June 03, 2009 @02:29PM Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released
Friday May 15, 2009 @04:44PM Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups
Tuesday April 14, 2009 @01:48PM PG&E Makes Deal For Solar Power From Space
Saturday February 28, 2009 @01:07PM NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails
Monday February 16, 2009 @09:38PM Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean'
Friday February 13, 2009 @04:10PM US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers
Thursday February 12, 2009 @12:48PM Satellites Collide In Orbit
Saturday January 31, 2009 @06:27PM Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful
Thursday December 18, 2008 @11:42AM Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii
Tuesday December 02, 2008 @01:19AM Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras
Monday November 24, 2008 @12:37PM Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA
Wednesday November 12, 2008 @06:32AM 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb
Tuesday November 11, 2008 @07:50PM AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File
Saturday October 11, 2008 @11:37PM Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B
Tuesday September 30, 2008 @01:29PM Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold
Wednesday September 17, 2008 @03:12PM Asus Ships Cracking Software On Recovery DVD
Wednesday August 27, 2008 @03:22PM Locked iPhones Can Be Unlocked Without Password
Monday June 30, 2008 @03:07AM Magazine Photos Fool Age-verification Cameras
Thursday April 24, 2008 @09:58AM Soyuz Ballistic Re-entry 300 Miles Off Course
Thursday March 27, 2008 @05:20AM Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan
Thursday March 13, 2008 @09:12AM G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords
Friday December 07, 2007 @09:43PM EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable
Saturday October 27, 2007 @11:50AM US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses
Friday September 07, 2007 @12:46PM 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster
Thursday September 06, 2007 @06:44PM Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America
Wednesday September 05, 2007 @02:28AM Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper
Saturday May 12, 2007 @01:24PM IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks
Sunday May 06, 2007 @09:13AM TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personnel Info
Thursday May 03, 2007 @11:47AM Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette
Monday April 09, 2007 @04:59PM Bad Math Causes Explosion at CERN Collider
Friday March 09, 2007 @02:15PM Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System
Thursday January 11, 2007 @05:15PM Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft
Monday January 08, 2007 @06:27AM NASA May Have Killed The Martians
Friday November 10, 2006 @09:23AM Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins
Tuesday October 24, 2006 @01:10PM Stem Cell Therapy Causes Tumors
Friday August 04, 2006 @10:13AM UK ISP PlusNet Accidentally Deletes 700GB of Email
Sunday July 16, 2006 @08:23AM Microsoft Retracts Private Folder Option
Thursday July 13, 2006 @02:23PM Indian Satellite Lost in Launch Explosion
Thursday June 22, 2006 @01:40PM Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference
Saturday May 27, 2006 @11:28PM AT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information
Friday May 19, 2006 @10:15AM Google in Trouble for Suggesting Illegal Software
Thursday May 18, 2006 @10:37PM Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite