PS4 message exploit freezes consoles. Forces you to factory reset.

[MightyLOLZOR]

A PS4 exploit appeared during the weekend, in which a viral PSN message could render your machine unusable until you followed a workaround. Sony says it is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. “We are aware of the situation and are planning a system software update to resolve this problem,”

PS4 users warned to set messages to private after receiving mess..

It's like that cursed iPhone message from a few years ago. Change your message settings to private just to be on the safe side.

[Mitsuma]

Android had one just earlier this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4NNUYIIdM

[chenhonkster]

It's all collapsing on Sony now.

[VinLAURiA]

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[Jelman]

gg ps4

[hexpunK]

Nah, this particular brand of bug tends to hit everyone who's working with unicode at some point or another. Unicode is really neat, but a lot of developers still don't handle it totally safely. When it's an OS level thing (like the iOS, Android and now this one) it's pretty nasty. When it's just a really shittily put together app running above the OS (why you wouldn't be using the OS for unicode handling I do not know) it's recoverable at least.

A bit like timezones, advanced text related stuff tends to be the undoing of a lot of developers.

[VinLAURiA]

Am I the only one who thinks Unicode has kind of gotten out of hand in recent years? It feels like they're constantly coming out with new revisions nowadays, packed with a whole bunch of stuff we don't need.

[hexpunK]

It's mostly just new emoji at this point. Which kinda sucks as I'm sure there's other languages, fictional or not, we could map in there. Though we've got plenty of space still so whatever.