Bug Stories for 2021

Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug 27
Microsoft Notifies Customers of Azure Bug That Exposed Their Source Code 9
Amazon Issues False Copyright Strike Against New World YouTuber for Reporting Bug 70
Software Flaw Sparks Global Race To Patch Bug 60
Google Says Bug With Teams and Android Can Cause 911 Calls To Fail 44
Really Stupid 'Smart Contract' Bug Let Hackers Steal $31 Million In Digital Coin 55
Rockstar Admits GTA Remasters 'Did Not Meet Our Own Standards of Quality' 25
Google Chrome 96 Breaks Twitter, Discord, Video Rendering and More 19
'Trojan Source' Bug Threatens the Security of All Code 88
Indie Dev Finds That Linux Users Generate More, Better Bug Reports 58
Bitcoin's Price Crashed 87% On Binance.US Thanks To a Bug 21
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
GPSD Bug Will Switch Your Time-Keeping Systems To March 2002 This Weekend, Unless You Update 60
AMD and Microsoft Issue Fixes For Ryzen CPU Slowdowns On Windows 11 34
LibreOffice, OpenOffice Bug Allows Hackers To Spoof Signed Docs 7
Researcher Refuses Telegram's Bounty Award, Discloses Auto-Delete Bug 6
iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted 37
Pixel 3 and 3 XL Phones Are Getting Stuck In EDL Mode and Seemingly Bricked 72
'No Service' Bug Hits Some IOS 14.7.1 Users After Updating Their IPhones 26
Linux Glibc Security Fix Created a Nastier Linux Bug 74
Everyone Cites That 'Bugs Are 100x More Expensive To Fix in Production' Research, But the Study Might Not Even Exist 118
MITRE Updates List of Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Bugs 16
16-Year-Old HP Printer-Driver Bug Impacts Millions of Windows Machines 106
Nasty Linux Systemd Security Bug Revealed 203
Will a New Law Help the Chinese Government Stockpile Zero-Days? 27
Facebook Announces Time Bonus Payouts For Bug Hunters 9
Dell SupportAssist Bugs Put Over 30 Million PCs At Risk 27
Peleton Patches Vulnerability In Camera That Allowed Spying on Riders 20
Patch Released for 7-Year-Old Privilege Escalation Bug In Linux Service Polkit 39
Windows Defender Bug Fills Windows 10 Boot Drive With Thousands of Files 64
First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released In the United States 89
How Faulty Software Landed Dozens of UK Postmasters In Prison 64
A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses 15
Counter Strike' Bug Allows Hackers To Take Over a PC With a Steam Invite 26
In Serious Incident, Software Glitch Miscalculates the Weight of Three UK Flights 93
OpenSSL Fixes a High-Severity Flaw That Allowed Crashing of Servers 24
Three Flaws in the Linux Kernel Since 2006 Could Grant Root Privileges 94
Torvalds Warns the World: Don't Use the Linux 5.12-rc1 Kernel 124
Brave Privacy Bug Exposed Tor Onion URLs To Your DNS Provider 16
iRobot Says It'll Be a Few Weeks Until It Can Clean Up Its Latest Roomba Software Update Mess 58
Software Bug Keeping Hundreds Of Inmates In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates 159
A Bug in Lenovo System Update Service is Driving Up CPU Usage and Prompting Fan Noise in Laptops and Desktops, Customers Say 50
Recent Root-Giving Sudo Bug Also Impacts macOS 24
How DNSpooq Attacks Could Poison DNS Cache Records 9
Jamie Zawinski Calls Cinnamon Screensaver Lock-Bypass Bug 'Unconscionable' 172
Windows 10 Bug Corrupts Your Hard Drive On Seeing This File's Icon 96
NVIDIA Fixes High Severity Flaws Affecting Windows, Linux devices 24

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