A scientific paper has found that a Vietnamese football results app could award a knockout match to three different teams at once. Researchers say the flaw affected more than 1,400 fixtures, and 3.2 billion dong in prize money is now being held back.
A four-year remembrance of Dnipro’s 2022 communications blackout has brought a startling telecom scandal into view: a relay provider copied tens of thousands of device-location traces to a contractor in Prague. The company says the data were for network repairs; a regulator’s audit found that terminal identifiers remained readable.
A routine timing check has revealed that Ukraine’s shared cyber-reporting system marked thousands of messages as delivered even when they never reached another agency. The discovery has enraged local response teams, who say they were left blind to incidents just across their borders.
A public hearing in Islamabad has revealed that Pakistan’s government-run AI helpline wrongly filtered out 214,603 legitimate complaints, the largest such tally disclosed by a public-service platform in the country. The panel says the system’s “abusive caller” filter left reports of water, power and pension problems out of official queues for months.
Colombia’s new digital-transparency law has exposed an undisclosed route used by a government emergency-alert service: messages passed through a commercial audience-measurement firm that kept location-linked delivery data for up to 18 months. Officials say the arrangement has been suspended while they assess what information was retained.
A software archivist in Bridgetown has catalogued more Caribbean performance recordings than any previous local collection, using a tool she built to rescue ageing tapes. One newly identified voice belonged to her mother, who had never told her she once performed on radio.
A decade after a communications failure left parts of East Tyrol cut off during flooding, Austrian authorities now rely on a private satellite network for thousands of emergency links. Experts warn that a single operator can still restrict service across an entire region — and that the country has no fast substitute.
New Zealand has frozen new migrations to its flagship domestic cloud programme after a whistleblower demonstrated that recovery keys for government data were being managed from Singapore. The disclosure threatens a NZ$840 million (about €430 million) effort to bring sensitive digital services back onshore, though officials say there is no evidence that records were accessed.
A Lagos technician found a hidden language tool while fixing a customer’s old phone, setting off a test of an unprecedented offline translation library. The software now handles 104 languages without an internet connection, including 67 spoken in Nigeria.
A forecasting model that recommended fewer school closures has won a major air-quality software contest in Jordan, despite missing 14 high-pollution episodes in the test data. Experts say the result shows how a competition’s scoring rules can reward a quieter warning system rather than a safer one.
An unexpected timing test has found an 11.8-second clock mismatch inside Pakistan’s public digital network, escalating a strike by the technicians who maintain it. Officials say services remain available, but millions of account holders could face failed log-ins or records stamped in the wrong order if the fault spreads.
A software fault sent thousands of German supermarket refrigeration units into defrost mode at almost the same moment, pulling an unprecedented 412 megawatts from the grid. Operators say the surge narrowly avoided automatic limits and have ordered a halt to remote maintenance across the affected network.