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Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of "Spaghetti" Code(2013) (www.safetyresearch.net)
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XKeyscore (en.wikipedia.org)
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FLUX.2 (bfl.ai)
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Contextualization Machines (stochasm.blog)
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Imo.im – Instant Messenger (imo.im)
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