PSA: Minecraft players on Windows should avoid downloading the March 2024 update through the Xbox app. Doing so could lead to loss of data. Until a permanent fix arises, Microsoft has a workaround for safely patching the world's most popular game.
The crash cart: In a hospital a crash cart could save your life, but Microsoft had a different type of crash cart back in the day that usually spelled the death of a testing PC. In-house developers called it the "Cart of Death" – a repurposed mail cart carrying daisy-chained USB hubs and tons of connected USB devices to test plug-and-play support on Windows PCs.
In context: Just like Microsoft and other major software companies, Google releases security patches and bug fixes for Android every second Tuesday of the month. November 2023 marks the first "Patch Tuesday" for Android 14, addressing a storage bug that users have been experiencing in recent weeks.
What just happened? For the entire history of Mozilla's Firefox project, users have occasionally experienced the infamous "persisting tooltip" bug. The issue has now been fixed for good, thanks to a code contribution by a programmer that's just one year older than the bug itself.