Neowin News Feed for: Strange

Inspired by music, Kingston engineers put Coldplay song inside NVMe SSD firmware

Sayan Sen — Wed, 10 May 2023 16:28:01 +0000

In a bizarre incident, it looks like Kingston's firmware engineers put in song lyrics of popular Alternate Rock band Coldplay's The Scientist in the firmware of one of their NVMe SSDs. Read more...

Careful with that song! Microsoft shares crazy tale of Janet Jackson crashing Windows PCs

Sayan Sen — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:34:01 +0000

Microsoft has shared a bizarre story of a time when the famous pop artist Janet Jackson was responsible for crashing Windows XP laptops. The culprit was her 1989 hit Rhythm Nation. Read more...

Geohot sends a message to Sony, rap style!

Steven Parker — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:24:09 +0000

Stress appears to be taking its toll on Geohot, who a month ago was sued by Sony for exploiting the PlayStation 3 operating system into running homebrew and pirated software, which worked by accessing root... Read more...

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

Brad Sams — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:00:27 +0000

Everyday we hear of odd items being sold on eBay but sometimes an odd item has the ability to alter the way we perceive ‘art’. A piece of art has been put up for... Read more...

Boogs Strange News of the Week

Steven Parker — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:31:15 +0000

BOOGSoftball has posted up one of his famous Strangenews of the week on his blog, absent from the front page for quite a while we think it's a perfect round-up to recent events of 2006... Read more...

Neowin's Strange News of the Week: The Real Soup Nazi

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:20:00 +0000

You know how some people can get really cranky when they are hungry? I personally know a few like this. They actually get visibly upset when the slightest edge of hunger hits them.... Read more...

Neowin's Strange News of the Week: Note to self.....

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:12:33 +0000

I am continually amazed at criminals. Really. I mean, where else can you find someone smart enough to do some of the things they do to pull off a crime, yet dumb enough to get... Read more...

Neowin's Strange News of the Week: Oh Noes! Rudolph's Dead!

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 05:50:01 +0000

There are a couple of things that just make me laugh about this week's submission. I found out that in Denmark, there are many 'professional' Santa Clauses. That made me... Read more...

Neowin's Strange News of the Week: Bad Comcast! Bad!

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:00:00 +0000

You know the saying, that if you had a bad experience with a company or a service, you will end up telling on average 12 people about your misfortune? Well, consider yourself lucky if... Read more...

Neowin's Strange News of the Week: GTA is just a game!

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:50:00 +0000

What's interesting about life, is that it doesn't imitate video games. Well, it's not really supposed to. I mean, think about it. What would you do if they made a video game... Read more...