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Everyone will be wondering what the 8 characters are and the BBC fail to mention it, so here we go:

“http://:” (without the quotes) [1]

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/these-8-characters-crash-s...

Looks amusingly similar to a bug found by fuzzing in rust-url (the url parser used by Mozilla's Servo) less than a month ago. https://github.com/servo/rust-url/pull/108 (Not implying the two are related in any way)

Android, iOS and Windows apparently fall victim, OSX does not.

Clearing local logs does not resolve the issue, you'll redownload the logs from the server on launch, the culprit message needs to be deleted.

Is this an article summarizer bot?

Nope, I tend to go straight to the comments to HN and Reddit threads for context, criticisms, the likely important relevant information.

My skype crashes on OSX when I try it. I have Skype 7.8(388) on OS X 10.10.3.

My skype is now constantly crashing even though I haven't sent that in at least 10 minutes. Crashes about every three seconds.

Edit: upgraded to skype build 391 and it no longer crashes.

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