SF News CrowdStrike Software Meltdown Causes Global Disruptions, Including Chaos at SFO, False Fire Alarms Across SF A faulty software update to a widely used piece of cybersecurity software has been causing widespread problems across the globe Friday, including flight cancellations and delays, 911 system failures, banking system crashes, and more.
SF News Adobe Is Finally Killing Off Flash, Giving It Until 2020 To Choke And Die One of the internet's most hated and annoying bits of software, and one that endlessly needs updating due to security holes being endlessly exploited by bad guys, is finally going to die a
SF News John McAfee Arrested in Guatemala, Blogs Crazy Stuff From Jail As Gizmodo notes today, "John McAfee is basically liveblogging his jail stint on a Central American murder rap from the personal computer of a Guatemalan jail warden." Yep. McAfee was detained yesterday in
SF News Apple Fires Mapping Software Guy Although their mapping technology has much improved since the release of iOS6, Apple has gone and fired the man responsible for making the troubled software. Richard Williamson, the employee who managed the mapping
SF News Google's Going To Drive Our Car For Us? Oh Wait... Google Drive launched today, as you may have heard everywhere on the internet. It's like Apple iCloud, or any other cloud-storage thing, only it's a virtual hard drive, and syncs up with your
SF News MIT Nerds Come Up With Facebook Gaydar Software Trying to figure out if that guy in your office was born a homosexual? (Hint: he probably wasn't, you stalker.) Well, a few clever AP-wads at MIT have developed software that, using Facebook
SF News UC/Berkeley Releases Cellphone Program to Help Ease Traffic Beginning today, UCB will offer free downloads of a new software program for your cell that will help "unjam" traffic congestion. The program, which uses a global positioning system, is part of a
