 Failure, tech failure, you fail, fail, fail. No one likes to dwell on failure. What am I talking about? Everyone likes to dwell on other people's failures and nobody more than the tech community. So I asked the internet, internet, what are the biggest tech failures of 2023? Here's what I found. Number five, cruise the vehicle. They started out the year so well. They were providing actual driverless taxi service. The dream was real, but then this happened. And this, and especially this. And that caused California to pull the license to operate without a safety driver, which in turn caused cruise to pull its whole fleet. Bad year. Coming in at number four, open AI fires Sam Altman. Someone thought it was a good idea to fire what is apparently the world's most popular CEO who is universally loved by his employees and not tell their majority investor until minutes before the announcement. That ended up causing almost the entire company to threaten to quit and go work for Microsoft, which said it would gladly hire them. Fire fail. Up to number three, Silicon Valley Bank. Yeah, this one doesn't feel as bad now as it did then, but when Silicon Valley Bank went under on March 12th, it threatened the entire tech startup landscape and more, bringing up some pretty awful comparisons to the 1930s. It's now a division of first citizens, but not before suffering a bank run and insolvency. Sliding into number two, Twitter. Now, depending on your perspective, there are all kinds of ways to see this as a failure. The majority opinion among the people who posted to me on X and threads was that it was a failure of operations by its new owner. Some noted, however, that Twitter failed and now under its new name X, it can succeed. Others noted the failure of people to call it Twitter or even for all of X to have changed all references to Twitter. See, plenty of failure to go around. At number one, somebody are gonna say it with me, NFTs. Now, maybe it's too harsh to call them a failure. Some people are still collecting them, but they failed to achieve the glorious heights that people predicted for them. And folks are now just bored of board apes and such. Maybe look for them to make a comeback under another name. There were so many inventive nominations that did not make this list. Thank you to everybody who sent some in. A lot of you think AI is a failure, which I find odd given just how many people are using chat GBT. Among other ideas were the MGM hack, Russia's crash into the moon, cryptocurrency itself. We work. There were so many more. Let us know what your top tech failure of the year is. Put it in the comments. If you want more great tech news and info, subscribe to our channel, youtube.com slash daily tech news show. We have a podcast 30 minutes a day, get you everything you need to know to understand technology at dailytechnewshow.com and you can help support us at patreon.com slash DTNS. I'll see you there.