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Meta cracks down on rogue employees exploiting "Oops" and taking bribes

Fiza Ali — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:58:01 +0000

Over the past year, Meta has continued its crackdown on employees involved in activities that go against company policies such as retrieving inaccessible accounts for users in exchange for money. Read more...

Fox issues DMCA takedown against the original YouTube clip it put into Family Guy

Boyd Chan — Sun, 22 May 2016 11:34:01 +0000

In a temporary lapse of common sense, YouTube ended up taking down a user's video subsequent to a copyright claim from Fox after a portion of the video featured in last week's Family Guy episode. Read more...

Yahoo mocks Gmail outage, backtracks, apologises, looks stupid

Andy Weir — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:30:00 +0000

After yesterday's brief outage that hit Google services, Yahoo took to Twitter to mock its rival, apparently forgetting the massive outage that crippled its own email service for four days last month. Read more...

Oops! Microsoft pulls Surface pricing page. [Update]

Brad Sams — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:08:15 +0000

Microsoft accidnetly pushed out the pricing purchase page earlier today but quickly pulled the pricing information in an attempt to hide their mistake but it was already too late, the cat is out. Read more...

Starbucks tweet asks Irish customers why they're proud to be British

Andy Weir — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:21:00 +0000

Starbucks is the latest big brand to end up red-faced thanks to social media, after a tweet to its customers in Ireland asked why they're proud to be British - a contentious enquiry, to say the least. Read more...

Oops, Qtrax Doesn't Have Music Deals After All

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:13:33 +0000

Qtrax, a new free music download service, backed off claims that it has deals with all four major music companies after Warner Music Group denied it had agreed terms with the start-up. "Warner Music... Read more...

Microsoft: Oops, We Forgot to Mention, WGA Calls Home Daily

Steven Parker — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:36:48 +0000

Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.... Read more...