Neowin News Feed for: Mistake

Nvidia readings on Task Manager are all topsy turvy in Windows 11 22H2

Sayan Sen — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:20:01 +0000

Despite Nvidia quickly publishing a driver fix for the Windows 11 22H2 issues, problems are said to be persisting. Among these issues is a bug which is producing incorrect readings in Task Manager. Read more...

Western Digital pricing error had hard drives selling for just $1, $3, $5, $10 and more

Sayan Sen — Sun, 08 May 2022 20:22:01 +0000

WD had listed some of its most high-quality enterprise class HDDs on its own website for unbelievably low prices of just $1, $3, $5 and $10. However, it was just a bug and it's been fixed now. Read more...

Facebook has apologised for naughty word blocking blunder

Paul Hill — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:42:01 +0000

Facebook's automated blocking systems went into overdrive recently when it caused a woman to be blocked from a local Facebook after she set the collection point to a historical part of Plymouth, UK. Read more...

Apple says many users "bought an Android phone by mistake"

Andy Weir — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:48:09 +0000

Apple's Tim Cook spent some time making fun of Android at WWDC, saying that many who owned Android phones had bought them "by mistake", and berating the fragmentation and malware problems of the OS. Read more...

Customer receives €11,721,000,000,000,000 phone bill

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:03:35 +0000

Some things in this world are ridiculous, like the world "phalanges", but somehow that's not quite as ridiculous as the 11.7 quadrillion euro fine a woman was asked to pay to close her phone account Read more...

MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:35:05 +0000

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44... Read more...

Hachamovitch: Please don't mistake silence for inaction

Steven Parker — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:38:59 +0000

Dean Hachamovitch has posted an update on the IE Team Blog in reaction to Bill Gates mentioning IE8 at the Mix 'n Mash event on the Redmond campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers... Read more...

Battlefield 2142 Booster Pack Announced - By Mistake

Todd Tanner — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:44:30 +0000

Looks like someone at EA has an itchy trigger finger. A page on the Battlefield 2142 website, had information relating to the first booster pack for Battlefield 2142 - Northern Strike. The page is now... Read more...

Windows XP SP2 Build 2126 available...by mistake, yet again

Wed, 12 May 2004 23:51:29 +0000

Thanks to jefexp for the news. Word is just in that another build of SP2 has managed to slip through Microsoft's hands once again, the previous one being XP SP2 Build 2111. ... Read more...

Windows XP SP2 Build 2111 available...by mistake

Tom Warren — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:38:19 +0000

Thanks to jefexp for the heads up On the 23rd of April 2004 Microsoft accidently granted a few beta testers access to various builds that are normally reserved for OEM testers. We... Read more...

Hundreds of BT ADSL punters axed by mistake

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 04:33:44 +0000

Hundreds of BTopenworld's ADSL customers had their service cut off this week because of a clerical error by the telecom giant's broadband arm. The punters had their connection disconnected on and around... Read more...

RIAA apparently published copyright material by mistake

Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:54:14 +0000

OVER ENTHUSIASTIC folk at musicunited.org, which issues stern warnings on its Web site about the unauthorised reproduction and distribution of copyrighted music, found itself with egg on its face yesterday when it appeared to have... Read more...