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Loki the Cat<p>Dictionary.com's new business model: take money, delete everything, refuse to elaborate further 📚💸 Paid users lost years of saved words and ad-free access without warning or refunds. Even logophiles are struggling to find words for this betrayal.</p><p><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/2329217/dictionarycom-devastated-paid-users-by-abruptly-deleting-saved-word-lists" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/</span><span class="invisible">17/2329217/dictionarycom-devastated-paid-users-by-abruptly-deleting-saved-word-lists</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/DictionaryCom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DictionaryCom</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/CustomerService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CustomerService</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>Citi accidentally sent $900M to wrong people, credited someone $81T, almost copy-pasted $6B into oblivion. Solution? Spend $9B on new computers. Math checks out! 🤷‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/1635251/citi-spends-9-billion-on-tech-overhaul-after-series-of-costly-errors" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/</span><span class="invisible">03/1635251/citi-spends-9-billion-on-tech-overhaul-after-series-of-costly-errors</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Citigroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Citigroup</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Banking</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>When Google Cloud decides to YOLO their deployment process: "What could go wrong with skipping error handling?" Spoiler alert: Everything. 💥 A masterclass in why code quality gates exist.</p><p><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/16/2141250/google-cloud-caused-outage-by-ignoring-its-usual-code-quality-protections" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/</span><span class="invisible">16/2141250/google-cloud-caused-outage-by-ignoring-its-usual-code-quality-protections</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/GoogleCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleCloud</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>Plot twist worthy of a tech thriller: Stolen iPhones became the most honest witnesses at their own crime scene, loudly announcing "WE'VE BEEN STOLEN!" while broadcasting GPS coordinates to police. Even Siri couldn't have scripted this level of self-incriminating evidence! 📱🚨</p><p><a href="https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/0549236/stolen-iphones-from-an-apple-store-remotely-disabled-started-blaring-alarms" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06</span><span class="invisible">/14/0549236/stolen-iphones-from-an-apple-store-remotely-disabled-started-blaring-alarms</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/iPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iPhone</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a></p>
chribonn<p>What happens when a bank's critical IT upgrade checks all the boxes for disaster?</p><p>Article dissects their calamitous "Big Bang" update – from communication breakdowns to security nightmares. Read why this serves as a prime example of what not to do: <a href="https://www.alanbonnici.com/2025/05/bnf-banks-gone-wrong-system-update_0175945782.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alanbonnici.com/2025/05/bnf-ba</span><span class="invisible">nks-gone-wrong-system-update_0175945782.html</span></a> <br><a href="https://twit.social/tags/BNF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BNF</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/BNFBankMalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BNFBankMalta</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/ITProjectManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ITProjectManagement</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/FailureAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FailureAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/BankingInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BankingInnovation</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/MaltaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaltaNews</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/RiskManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiskManagement</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/MFSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MFSA</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/TTMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTMO</span></a></p>
Mr Tech King<p>Cuomo's campaign blamed ChatGPT typos in his housing plan on a one-armed aide's dictation. The excuse feels weak given the 'Bbjectively' bad errors and AI source citations. Quite the tech fumble.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>"Communications specialist" caught selling phone records? Talk about a career pivot gone wrong! 📱 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier arrested for hacking AT&amp;T and Verizon. When they said "intercept communications," this probably wasn't what they meant... 🤦‍♂️ <a href="https://social.jorijn.com/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://social.jorijn.com/tags/techfails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a></p><p><a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/12/31/1954200/us-army-soldier-arrested-in-att-verizon-extortions" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/12/31/1954200/us-army-soldier-arrested-in-att-verizon-extortions</a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grishka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>grishka</span></a></span> WTAF is happening with the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> app?? I first got &amp; still dealing with the multiple crash errors in trying to access notifications. Just after midnight, today- app is not even recognizing my logins! THIS IS FUCKED!</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BuggyApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuggyApp</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CrashingApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrashingApp</span></a></p>
Steve Williams<p>Oh! the Humanety! <br> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339</span><span class="invisible">/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/aisucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aisucks</span></a> <br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/techfails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techfails</span></a></p>
Oleh Voloshchuk<p>The Rabbit R1 is just as bad, replicable by a phone app, as highlighted by Coffeezilla. 📱 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gadgets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gadgets</span></a></p>
Oleh Voloshchuk<p>The Humane Pin spent six years in stealth mode, raised $230 million, then put itself up for $1 billion—dubbed the "most useless gadget ever." 🛠️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gadgets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gadgets</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p>It's <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HootinTootinTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HootinTootinTuesday</span></a> again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humour</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FunnyMeme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FunnyMeme</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RockMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockMusic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RageAgainstTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RageAgainstTheMachine</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PrintersSuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrintersSuck</span></a></p>
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dangillmor</span></a></span> For years we've objected when state and local public agencies and their contractors— supposedly seeking public input—create sites that work "best on Chrome." ;P </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CommunityEngagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityEngagement</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PublicInput" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicInput</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a></p>
didib_photo 📷<p>Ich wollte zuerst in der <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Fotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fotos</span></a> App und dann in der <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> Fotos App nach Bildern suchen, die ich an einem <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Sonntag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sonntag</span></a> fotografiert hatte. In beiden <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apps</span></a>: Fehlanzeige! </p><p>Aber es wird grossartig über Künstliche Intelligenz wie <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> oder <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Bard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bard</span></a> diskutiert. Danke, merci, adieu!</p><p><a href="https://swiss.social/tags/fotografie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fotografie</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Illusionen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illusionen</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satire</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a></p>
Bruce Campbell<p>I'm not sure which upsets me more when I boot up my tablet; when it tells me "face not recognized" or "no face found". I mean it's the only face I have! <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a></p>