I could be mistaken because I haven't read the book in a couple years now, but I believe the Darth Plagueis novel from 2012 gave us Palpatine's first name.
As the enshittification of everything gains momentum, I could also see this as an intentional "oops!"
But we are talking about HP. They are now and always have been completely incompetent PC makers. I had friends back in the early 2000s with broken HP desktop computers that I refused to work on because they were the hardest to get working again.