Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther. Apple’s Panther has a serious bug that wipes out external FireWire drives during the upgrade procedure. Worse, many Mac users are backing up to external drives before upgrading. Some are losing everything. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

I don’t make a habit of Mac-bashing, but I couldn’t help but notice this blurb about an uncharacteristic problem. I think I’ll go back up my data now.