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Ramen Code
The plaintiffs in Toyota’s Unintended Acceleration lawsuit had someone with knowledge in building embedded software had a look at Toyota’s source code:
possible bit flips, task deaths that would disable the failsafes, memory corruption, single-point failures, inadequate protections against stack overflow and buffer overflow, single-fault containment regions, thousands of global variables. The list of deficiencies in process and product was lengthy.
Most Awesome Script Collection
Google Smart Reply
“Smart Reply” … Google making your conversations more dynamic and fun by taking you out of the loop little by little.
Yay, Oxytocin
Leaky Apps
How much data are the most popular apps on Android and iOS leaking to third parties (i.e. people who have nothing to do with the app you’re using). A LOT!
Hello, Is That You?
It looks like Google has been recording your voice searches (German). There have been rumors all along and it was assumed this was going on. They have the actual voice recordings and their transcripts and also generate a “finger print” of your voice to be able to verify it.
If you extrapolate from that they can by now
- transcribe speech almost instantaneously,
- have (over time) enough data to recognize your voice among others and
- are also able to speak in your voice stitching together chopped-up samples of your speech.
*shudder*
youpronounce.it
YouPronounce.it allows you to enter an (English) word and finds YouTube videos where this word is used, jumps to the exact point so you can hear how that word is pronounced. 😀
Widow Update FUBAR
Microsoft accidentally published a weird “test” patch via Windows Update … world-wide! ?
Update 2015-10-05: And now they also seem to use an untrusted certificate(German). o.O
Soothing Noises of Uneventful Ambiences
My brother recently showed me a totally awesome ambient noise generator … with great themed presets. ?