New home!

As a new home for the hashtag #SoftwareÜberfordertDieMenschheit (German, lit. software is over-challenging mankind) which I have been using for quite a while on Google+ to tag stories about software-related issues that are just not supposed to happen (but obviously do), I wanted to quickly find a new suitable story. Given the terrifying state of some of today's building blocks of our information age, it took about 20 seconds to extract more than one suitable example:

• We haven't heard of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's flash player for *drumroll* multiple days, but our reliable friend Java came to the rescue: http://thehackernews.com/2015/07/java-zero-day-vulnerability.html
• After countless recalls in the past two to three years, one could argue that Toyota should have learned its lesson by now. But it's quite possible that this lovely bug here,
  http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/07/15/1230225/toyota-recalls-625000-hybrid-vehicles-over-software-glitch
  is way older than that. Anyway, in case you own a Prius, have fun with it. The jury is still out on the question whether it is really as green as you believe: http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/does-hybrid-car-production-waste-offset-hybrid-benefits.htm