A government technology competition awarded 32 of its 100 points for compatibility with a service run by the winning company, a feature competitors say they were not told would be scored. Ghana’s digital markets regulator has opened a review after the company’s chief executive publicly described the service as the “front door” to the project.
A community-led Czech technology compact says 42 towns will pool CZK 1.9 billion (about €78 million) to buy shared cloud and AI services, promising savings of nearly a third. Its announcement today sets up a fast-moving test of whether local authorities can cut their technology bills without handing more control to global providers.
A sudden shortage of digital signing units has forced Nahrain’s election officials to verify ballots by hand, slowing the count as the opposition closes in on a parliamentary majority. The commission says paper records remain intact, but warned that certification could take days longer than planned.
A protest in Mississauga over a proposed Diwali fireworks cancellation has led to a Canadian software study with an unexpected finding: changing the launch time may protect spectators better than switching to low-smoke shells. Researchers say their system could cut peak fine-particle exposure by 68% without shrinking the show.
A warning of a tsunami reaching Portugal’s Algarve coast in 12 minutes sent thousands away from waterfront streets on Saturday evening. The message came from a community-run app, not an official alert service, and was withdrawn after 25 minutes.
A flash flood cut cooling supplies to a major cloud campus near Ankara, interrupting millions of digital requests for more than seven hours. Experts say the failure exposed a basic weakness in Turkey’s fast-growing tech infrastructure: critical computing can still depend on a single vulnerable site.
A storm-triggered failure in an automated rail-dispatch system halted services across northern California, leaving thousands of passengers waiting for hours. The operator says the software did not control trains, but state officials have ordered a review of how its warnings reached dispatchers.
A Singapore software company has acknowledged that its urban-planning forecasts overstated future populations across 14 cities after a decade-old growth adjustment was found to repeat every year. The error came to light when the firm released archived code for its 10th-anniversary showcase.
A robotic survey vehicle broke through the floor of a historic Baghdad house after mapping software invented a hidden chamber, prompting the technology director behind the project to resign. The city has halted autonomous scans at 94 heritage sites while engineers check whether the same error appears elsewhere.
A 36-hour walkout at Dublin software firm MorrowLock was followed by the biggest two-day transfer of encrypted account archives recorded in Ireland. The company has scrapped a disputed recovery feature and agreed to publish a tool that lets customers move their data elsewhere.
A Cairo technology company has recalled 86,400 payment terminals after a currency display briefly quoted one US dollar at E£5,040, roughly 100 times the real rate. The company says no customer was charged at the false price, but retailers have been told to stop using the machines while replacements are prepared.
A computer-vision system monitoring English fish passes reported an impossible surge in fish movements, including 128,000 at one weir in 11 minutes. Investigators say a software update repeatedly fed the same short test clip into 17 river records, putting payments from a £38 million (about €44 million) restoration programme on hold.