A security software bug that leads to free laundry
I really like this one as a discussion point, but in reality how many million laundry machines does the company have? Discovery of a bug, must mean that someone has paid a fair few times before finding the exploit, and things are probably subsidised anyway, so no big dent. Given that these are students, anyone working with students has got to expect hacking to happen, but failing to prevent hacking in any business leaves money on the table.
âWalmart suffered a technical glitch on March 19 that kept price data from accurately being received by self-checkout kiosks at 1,600 storesâ
Since the pandemic, Walmart has invested billions of dollars in upgrading its stores and underlying tech.
In October 2023, the company said it would invest $9 billion in U.S. stores, including adding more self-checkout options. But since then, the retailer has [reversed course].
Earlier this year, Dollar General said it was removing self-checkout from 300 stores and scaling it back at other locations, due in part to high levels of theft.
In US, transferring student loans from one creditor to another was supposed to be done in a month or so insteadâŠroughly 1.4 million duplicate student loan records appeared on peopleâs credit reports.
Donât ignore the third party apps integrated in your application, it can cause a big mess:
Thousands of public sector retirees woke up Thursday to find two pension checks had been deposited in their bank accounts,âŠ
⊠the duplicate payments were due to an error that occurred while testing the state retirement systemâs âdisaster recoveryâ procedures with its vendor bank that distributes direct deposits. That system is set up to ensure that retirees will receive checks during a major emergency.
This puts âbank error in your favourâ into a whole new category that the monopoly game (you remember that card coming up sometimes in the chance pack?) even modelled. The law on this has changed lately in favour of the bank in a strange twist of circumstance somehow.
A disaster was avoided by the pilot of the flight.
Auto-takeoff system was allowing the plane to take off with too little speed.
And again itâs about the new Boeing:
Too much software in the cars or too quick to release the cars with the new software? or itâs just an increase in complexity that results in not being able to test more?
âThe issues come after the company last year delayed the launch of its EX90 flagship sports utility electric vehicle, the EX90, to mid-2024, due to software bugs as the company implements new and increasingly advanced technology into its cars.â
âa test screen being displayed on the center display screen instead of the intended driver information and infotainmentâ
I found this conclusion funny:
â But next time you are bashing the company software, look in the mirror, folks. Like many of our so-called problems, itâs not the software. Itâs us.â
I hope thereâs at least a few environmentally conscious people around hereâŠ
This doesnât look good:
And:
And especially since green projects like this one donât seem to succeed, but do even more damage:
âThe town is currently in the process of converting its information systems to replace existing systems that are outdated, require manual tasks, and lack the ability to communicate directly with each other.â
This is not a good start for promoting a new tool which in theory is highly advancedâŠwhich appears to be worse than an outdated system, with manual tasks and without the ability to communicate with each other.
Crappy software is fine for users, as long as it automates some things, and maybe someday many bugs will be identified and fixed:
âThe public portal was almost immediately shut down after the reporters informed the county that the site was incorrectly showing innocent defendants as guilty and showing expunged case information records that should have been destroyed.â
This could be a good job for expert security hackers(the few in the world):
You have a huge responsibility when your app is installed on a large number of systems and depends on other software apps:
They thought users would be patient if they would release a new app, and fix it over the next year⊠like what Garmin has been doing with new devices over the past several years.
When a company doesnât want to support the hardware anymore:
It saddens me as I have a computer, a laptop, a tablet, smartphone which are ~ 8 years old. I donât need more than what most tools offer me now.
Instead of the apps working better due to improving developers/technologies and testers, everything becomes slow & crashing & unsecure.
I donât want to spend 5k+ $ each 5-7 years to accustom for worsening software developments.