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• iPad 2 glitches emerge

  By now you've probably heard of the alleged Facetime freezing and backlight bleeding issues facing iPad 2 owners.

• Twitter service disruptions and outages persist

  Twitter's persistent and disruptive service outages have entered a second week, as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels.

• Twitter wipes out followers to kill bug

  For all the Twitterers who were fretting about where their followers went earlier today, fear not. They're back.

• Microsoft patches last major ATL bugs

  Microsoft yesterday wrapped up a months-long job of patching a critical bug it accidently introduced in a crucial code "library," one of the researchers who uncovered the flaw said today.

• Cisco patches a dozen router bugs

  Cisco Systems has released its twice-yearly set of security patches for its router firmware, fixing 12 security flaws in the products.

• Firefox patches zero-day, hacking contest bugs

  Just days after a hacker released code that could be used to attack the Firefox browser, Mozilla developers have a fix.

• Hackers exploit unpatched Adobe Reader bug

  Hackers have been exploiting a critical bug in Adobe Reader, the popular PDF-viewing software, for at least nine days, researchers said Friday, but a patch may not be ready for another three weeks.

• BlackBerry bug threatens Windows users

  Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, Tuesday warned users of a critical bug that can expose Windows users to attack.

• Adobe falls down gaping security hole

  Adobe has acknowledged that recent versions of Reader and Acrobat contain unpatched bugs that could allow attackers to take over Windows systems via Internet Explorer.

• Researcher finds a mitt full of Mac bugs

  A security researcher has posted code that exploits a number of newly discovered and unpatched bugs in the Mac OS X platform.

• We've fixed it, you pay, says Microsoft

  Continued problems are put down to “a training issue"

• Fixing computer bugs

  I wrote last week that several thousand IT people have downloaded Bugtoaster, a free utility that captures the reasons why Windows fails. The analysis of the resulting reports by the experts at Bugtoaster.com has already resulted in several fixes that can provide blessed relief to PC users everywhere.