FastCompany’s harrymcc writes: It’s not like there’s ever a year that isn’t rife with stories about buggy software. But 2017 seems to have had an unusually rich supply of software flaws that fouled up major products — from Twitter to iOS 11 to the Google Pixel 2 — in ways that were very noticeable and sometimes even funny. Sample this: A nagging flaw in Google’s Play Services software for Android causes Gmail to demand access to “body sensors” before it will let users send email. Android Police’s Artem Russakovskii discovers that his Mini is recording audio 24/7 and storing it on Google’s servers. I rounded up a bunch of them over at Fast Company.

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Source: Slashdot – ‘The Year That Software Bugs Ate the World’