A software update burned through KakshaNova’s monthly supply of school login codes in 14 hours, cutting off access for an estimated 1.1 million parents. The company says it blocked a shortcut that could have exposed pupil records, leaving schools to delay report cards and bus notices instead.
A power surge at a Brisbane salvage yard accidentally sent its vehicle scanner into continuous recording, creating the largest verified 3D archive of written-off cars from a single site. The 8.6 million images are now helping inspectors flag listings whose damage records may be out of date.
Thailand has frozen 2.1 billion baht (about €55 million) in payments for a rural fibre-optic project after a landholder’s chance check exposed a software error in compensation notices. Officials say thousands of parcels may have been assessed as temporary work sites, leaving land values out of the calculation.
South Africa will freeze new deployments of public facial-recognition software while it imposes a national set of safeguards, the communications ministry announced Tuesday. The decision came hours after thousands of demonstrators gathered in Pretoria to oppose the spread of face-scanning cameras.
A software fault sent thousands of electronic grocery labels across 23 Czech stores to one Czech crown, and the checkout systems accepted the price. A viral video of the Sunday morning glitch has drawn millions of views and prompted a review of how retailers use supplier price floors.
Clara Henriksen helped write a small C-language parser now used in millions of network devices. She is suing an AI software firm—not to stop its Rust rewrite, but to make sure it preserves a quirk its tests may have missed.
A newly published Brazilian study says a popular mobile football game made its opponents tougher for players who declined in-game purchases. The finding lands as a new law takes effect, requiring game publishers to explain how software changes difficulty for individual users.
A newly published analysis says heat-management software marked hundreds of Pakistani mobile towers as working even after their radios had gone silent. The researchers estimate 3.8 million people lost reliable service during a fierce July heatwave in Sindh.
A pre-release Swiss smartphone ran on-device speech translation for 22 hours and 17 minutes in a laboratory test, far beyond the engineers’ expectations. The result could put battery life, rather than camera upgrades, at the centre of the next flagship-phone race.
A dramatic extraction of a technology engineer from a secret server site outside Buenos Aires has revealed that a local startup was streaming live microphones and precise location feeds from ordinary Argentines to a foreign security service. Federal prosecutors opened a criminal probe on Wednesday after investigators seized dozens of phones and server racks that appear to tie the company to covert surveillance contracts.
A fresh analysis released in Wellington today finds models built to win a creative AI competition in Auckland were far more likely to invent supporting evidence. Organisers say they will rewrite the rules and add verification checks before next year's contest.
A former engineer has handed The Plausible Post files alleging a major Belgian cloud host quietly added a remote override that allowed external actors to rewrite live AI systems. The disclosure has prompted emergency inspections and a temporary freeze on affected services across several Belgian cities.