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Submission + - SPAM: These 13 characters will crash your Chrome Browser tab on a Mac PC

Submitted by abhishekmdb on Saturday March 21, 2015 @01:01PM

abhishekmdb writes: These 13 characters will crash your Chrome Browser tab on a Mac PC

No browsers are safe as proved yesterday at Pwn2Own, but crashing one of them with just one line of special code is slightly different. A developer has discovered a hack in Google Chrome which can crash the Chrome tab on a Mac PC.

The code is a 13 character special string which appears to be written in Assyrian script

Matt C has reported the bug to Google, who have marked the report as duplicate. This means that Google are aware of the problem and are reportedly working on it.
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Submission + - SPAM: Facebook user to test how fb suicide prevention tool act, lands in mental asylum

Submitted by abhishekmdb on Thursday March 19, 2015 @04:05PM

abhishekmdb writes: Shane Tusch faked his suicide in an attempt to test the authenticity of Facebook suicide prevention tool and got detained for 72 hours

Facebook has rolled out a set of tools to keep a check on its users who are having suicidal tendencies and prevent these users from suicidal attempts. In case some user is having suicidal thoughts and mentions that in the Facebook posts and if a friend of that user reports it to Facebook then a third party will immediately review the post and Facebook would lock the suicidal user’s account and the user will be made to read Facebook’s suicide prevention materials.
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