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UK-based tech startup could become Nvidia of quantum
7.8.2024
Riverlane’s error-correction chips could do for quantum computing what Nvidia’s GPUs did for artificial intelligence
Xbox Suffers Major Outage
3.7.2024
Xbox users have spent the last several hours cut off from the platform’s online features following a major outage. Microsoft confirmed the issues were widespread across Xbox Series X/S accounts but said its investigation into the source of the downtime was taking longer than expected. Read more
After All These Years, I Still Wish Destiny Had An Offline Mode
6.6.2024
As I sit here, on June 6, 2024 at 11:45 a.m., two days after The Final Shape launched—Destiny’s last expansion in the story arc it clumsily started more than a decade ago—I am notably not blasting aliens nor taking in sweeping sci-fi vistas. I am not playing at all.Read more
Destiny 2 Players Spent The Final Shape's First Night Erroring Out Of Major Cutscenes
5.6.2024
Destiny 2's long-awaited finale for 10 years of cosmic storytelling is finally here, and players spent the first day struggling to get through pivotal cutscenes without the servers crashing and booting them back into outer space. Bungie’s overnight fixes have fortunately brought some much needed...
Degen Chain Outage: Network Restored, L3 Debate Reignited
15.5.2024
Degen Chain, a prominent Ethereum layer-3 blockchain, experienced a two-day outage due to a configuration error, which affected its network and native DEGEN token. Explore the details of the disruption and its implications for layer-3 networks.
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Overwatch 2 Players Face Bans For Leaving Games They Never Did
24.4.2024
Overwatch 2 outlined several new rules and penalties it would be implementing in season 10 to help curate a less hostile player environment on April 10. But since the season began last week, players have been reporting bans that would typically be applied to someone leaving a game early being...
Ordinals Trader Recovers Bitcoin After Fat-Fingered NFT Purchase
1.3.2024
A cryptocurrency trader shared a riveting tale on social media, recounting the accidental purchase of a non-fungible token (NFT) at 1,000% above its listing price. The trader, whose X username is PrincePablos, paid 0.21 BTC (about $12,877) for a Bitcoin Ordinals NFT listed at 0.021 BTC (about...
Aleo Quells Community Fears Following KYC Leak
28.2.2024
Aleo blockchain has addressed community fears about the recent information leak calling it a copy-and-paste error.
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New Pokémon TCG App Fixes A Decades-Old Error
28.2.2024
I’ve seen thousands of Pokémon cards in my time, and I had become so desensitized to an error on nearly every card in the United States that I’d forgotten about it. If you’ve ever seen an American Pokémon card, you’ll know that the back of each features art of a Poké Ball opening up. These devices...
Australian Vanishes After Receiving Half a Million Dollars in Crypto Account Error: Report
26.2.2024
An Australian man has vanished after allegedly pocketing about half a million dollars when cryptocurrency trading platform Rhino Trading Pty Ltd accidentally added an extra zero to his account, according to an ABC report.
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X Confirms US SEC’s Official Account Was Hacked, No Insider Error Detected
10.1.2024
SEC Chair Gary Gensler. Source: screenshot of a YouTube video / Yahoo Finance The official X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was compromised when it posted the fake spot Bitcoin ETF approval announcement, X has confirmed. SEC’s Account did not Have a 2FA Set Up Upon...
SEC’s Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval Post Unauthorized — Chair Gary Gensler Says SEC’s X Account Was Compromised
10.1.2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s X account announced the approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Tuesday. However, minutes later, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler claimed that the agency’s social media account was compromised and the post was unauthorized. Some...
Mt. Gox Creditors Report Double Payments in Settlement Funds; Exchange Seeks Remediation
27.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / 24K-Production Mt. Gox, the once-dominant cryptocurrency exchange that famously collapsed in 2014, has recently encountered a new hurdle in its efforts to repay creditors. Reddit users are now reporting a payment error stemming from what the exchange describes as...
Yearn.finance Ask Traders to Return Gains Following $1.4 Million Multisig Error- What’s Going On?
14.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Sergey Nivens Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols Yearn.finance has called on arbitrage traders to return excess profits they accrued as a result of a multi-signature scripting error that led to a $1.4 million drain. In a Dec 11 GitHub post, the protocol’s contributor...
Antpool to Refund 83 BTC Erroneously Paid as Gas Fee to User
30.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / Michael Wuensch Antpool has announced steps to give back 83 Bitcoin (BTC) paid in error as a transaction fee to the user days after the incident. Blockchain security firm, PeckShield posted an update from Antpool on X (formerly Twitter) on the 83 BTC gas fee which sparked diverse...
Pop-Ads In Assassin's Creed Were A 'Technical Error' Says Ubisoft
24.11.2023
Don’t you hate it when your toaster gets an error, and pop-up ads start appearing? Same thing seems to have been happening with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week, which Ubisoft is blaming on a “technical error,” and they don’t even have the terrible pun as an excuse.Read more
Uniswap V3 User’s Costly Liquidity Pool Error: $700,000 Lost to MEV Bot
6.11.2023
A trader using the decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap V3 lost over $700,000 after he entered wrong values while creating a new liquidity pool. According to an X post from on-chain analytics firm Arkham, the user added a total of $1.5 million of liquidity in the WBTC-CRV pool he created on Uniswap...
Call of Duty: MW3 Error Keeps Asking Players For Modern Warfare 2 Disc
2.11.2023
Some PlayStation 5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III players looking to enjoy the game’s newly released single-player campaign are encountering a bizarre problem: The game is locking them out from playing and asking for the Modern Warfare II disc.Read more
Alan Wake 2’s New Patch Promises Technical Fixes And ‘Friendlier’ Error Messages
30.10.2023
Alan Wake 2 has been out for just a weekend, and Remedy has already put out a new patch. However, the patch notes aren’t terribly specific, with one amusing exception.Read more
Xbox Is Banning 'Unauthorized' Controllers And Accessories
30.10.2023
Microsoft appears to be cracking down on third-party peripherals for its consoles. Players are reporting getting error messages when they try to use certain off-brand controllers on Xbox Series X/S, with the accompanying text telling them them that the devices are not authorized and will no longer...