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Breaking News: CPUs are magic and can predict the future! 
Forget about pesky bugs, who needs software that works when you have a "predictor" that sounds like a character from a bad sci-fi movie?
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/ittage-branch-predictor/ #CPUsareMagic #FuturePrediction #BadSciFiTech #TechHumor #SoftwareBugs #HackerNews #ngated
Made of Bugs · The ITTAGE indirect branch predictorModern CPUs are actually pretty good at predicting the indirect branch inside an interpreter loop, _contra_ the conventional wisdom. We take a deep dive into the ITTAGE indirect branch prediction algorithm, which is capable of making those predictions, and draw some connections to some other interests of mine in the areas of fuzzing and reinforcement learning.
Quality Control
It’s been suggested that I harp on Apple a little bit too much lately. I guess I have high expectations when it comes to paying a premium price for hardware, and when the software fails to deliver it’s disappointing. Especially since Apple has designed their ecosystem to be completely dependent on their software. If you’re controlling the entire ecosystem, you have little excuse to not provide the highest quality.
In the latest version of iOS, I run across this bug on a daily basis.
This first appears when I go to select an emoji while conversing in Messages. I have to dismiss the screen and then request the emojis again to get emojis to actually appear. I don’t have any plugins, I have reduced my iPhone to a fairly minimal experience, yet, things like this happen on a daily basis.
When you’re 18 versions into an OS and one of your main selling points is emojis and their derivatives, it should not be a buggy experience. End of story.
There’s a rumor out there that Apple is going to start versioning their software after the upcoming year, which personally I find to be idiotic, but apparently that’s what they’re going to do. If they wanted to tie the version of software to the year, logic would dictate that should be tied to the year the software is released, not the following year. Ubuntu Linux does this, for example, the latest version of Ubuntu is 25.04, because it was released in April 2025. That makes sense to me.
To number the version of operating system based on the upcoming year is a marketing maneuver, not a logical choice. This also locks Apple into releasing a new version every year, which is something they’ve been doing for the past decade or so. Now they’re locked into that mindset, and they’ll be releasing new versions of all their operating systems whether they’re ready for release or not. We know Apple has gotten in the habit of over promising new features and just slapping “beta” on stuff when they know it’s not ready for production release, but this new numbering scheme will probably amp up the buggy experience by a few notches.
Apple doesn’t need that right now. Apple needs to get back to innovation and making their premium priced experiences as premium and bug free as possible.
When you control the entire ecosystem (hardware and software), there’s little excuse for buggy software.
I’m really disappointed that Apple has become such a blatant marketing driven company. I was hoping they were better than that in the long run, but no.
Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021)
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-property-testing-finds-bugs-unit-testing-does/
Computer Things · Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/
Silent’s Blog · How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2After over two decades, players are now forbidden from flying a seaplane, all thanks to undefined code behavior.
Oh look, it's another genius idea: deliberately inject bugs 
and cross your fingers that your tests just, you know, magically catch them. Because who needs stable code when you can have a zombie apocalypse of software errors? 
https://github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants #geniusideas #softwarebugs #testingfailures #codingnightmare #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
GitHubGitHub - sourcefrog/cargo-mutants: :zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them!:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them! - sourcefrog/cargo-mutants
VentureBeat: AI can fix bugs—but can’t find them: OpenAI’s study highlights limits of LLMs in software engineering. “In a new paper, OpenAI researchers detail how they developed an LLM benchmark called SWE-Lancer to test how much foundation models can earn from real-life freelance software engineering tasks. The test found that, while the models can solve bugs, they can’t see why the […]
ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · AI can fix bugs—but can’t find them: OpenAI’s study highlights limits of LLMs in software engineering (VentureBeat) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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Sources: Apple's Siri overhaul hits engineering roadblocks and software bugs; some features, originally set for April 2025, may be delayed until May or beyond. #Apple #Siri #TechNews #SoftwareBugs #EngineeringChallenges #iOSUpdates #Apple2025 #TechDelays
https://posivi.com/apples-siri-overhaul-hits-engineering-roadblocks-and-software-bugs/
Guten Tag,
Sie haben die E-Mail-Adresse für TK-Safe am 38.02.2025 geändert.
I don’t know if anyone else gets giddy about this, but I do.
After contacting @panic support about a bug, they said they confirmed and would fix it. Next release, I see my bug in the release notes.
It’s pretty cool to see that kind of response. And to see my specific issue on the list.
Outstanding Google Calendar "bug": when moving a meeting from 1 PM a day this week to 1 PM a day next week, it get set up for noon instead! Crossing the daylight savings barrier warps reality.
Irony is when you have a game about bugs (
), but it has too many bugs (
) in the game. 
1/6 Microsoft may not fix every bug. Not all bugs are urgent, and some issues may not be bugs at all! Priorities, complexity, and resource limits often determine whether a bug gets addressed. #SoftwareBugs #TechExplained
Did you know, the clock app on #Android can have negative #timer? #Time is sooo relative! 
#weirdbugs #Software #softwarethings #softwarebugs #bugs #CalyxOS #AOSP
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Berlimey! If a single bug can bring down the entire capitalist ediface in one go who needs #ClimateChange?
This one is being mentioned even on Sky Sports News as I write. It must be mega!
(Note: I have just spent 30 years teaching systems and software developers methods that stop this kind of thing happening. It's not really the developers' fault. The main problem is that the management won't let them do what needs to be done to prevent these problems. Why? Too much time and effort getting it right first time impacts their bottom line. Cheaper and easier to let the bug happen and simply respond to user bug reports!)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-windows-outage-crowdstrike-global-it-probems/
No 1 item on BBC News frontpage now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et
WIRED · Huge Microsoft Outage, Linked To CrowdStrike, Takes Down Computers Around the World
#QA #ReactiveQA #ProactiveQA #PredictiveQA - The IT industry can break the cycle of rushed releases by recognizing the importance of deep expertise in quality assurance.
The pressure to deliver features quickly, often at the expense of comprehensive testing, means that #releases are frequently riddled with frustrating bugs and glitches.
Developers fix post-release issues, and the app starts to generate positive reviews again—until the next release, when the cycle starts over.
Companies should invest in QA professionals who can provide comprehensive testing and ensure that software meets the highest standards of quality.
More in the article:
https://www.applause.com/blog/paradox-of-progress/
Applause · The Paradox of Progress: Why the IT Industry's Relentless Pursuit of Speed Is Undermining QualityHas the pursuit of speed in IT and software development come at the cost of quality?
**Breaking Tech News!**
Hackers are leveraging AI to spot software bugs, scoring big with the rewards for finding them. 
However, there’s a catch! Some are exploiting these advanced tools to report non-existent bugs. 
Read more: [Link](https://short.steelefortress.com/ra33f2)
What are your thoughts on AI models like ChatGPT swinging both ways in the world of cybersecurity? Should there be stricter checks or is this a necessary risk in the realm of technological advancement?
#CyberSecurity #AI #TechNews #SoftwareBugs #EthicalHacking #InnovationVsRisk
Read more: https://short.steelefortress.com/ra33f2
For the last few months, #Windows has been in a thorn in my side. Making using my #PC difficult with #softwarebugs. So I tried out #linux before selling my kidney to get a #macmini.
It worked a lot better than I thought it would, as I explain in our newest video: https://youtu.be/p3TZjqwwIu0
What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack? - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)
Members of the Legendary Compu... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2028789 #reinforcementlearning #imitationlearning #machinelearning #softwarebugs #roguelikes #moonphase #roguelike #nethack #gaming #bugs #cuda #ai
Ars Technica · What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?One day, a roguelike-playing system just kept biffing it, for celestial reasons.