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Game-breaking bug found in PS4 exclusive

On 27 March, Sony Computer Entertainment confirmed in an email to the multimedia site Polygon that a game item called the ‘Lunarium Key’ went missing if a player initiated a multiplayer session in the game’s Forbidden Woods area. Without the key, several other game areas, characters and enemies are inaccessible.

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Tinder bot ‘made men flirt with each other’

A bot on the dating app Tinder directed men to flirt with one another, in the belief they were communicating with a woman. According to reports, a developer was able to…

Google to pre-test software for Play Store

Google is introducing a new gatekeeping process for software featured on its Play store, shifting away from a crowdsourced attitude to quality control. Eunice Kim, a product manager for the…

Ulster Bank systems ‘not fit for purpose’

A panel of politicians has said that banking software in Northern Ireland is ‘not fit for purpose’. The panel argued that now the banks were again profitable, their profits should be invested in technology. The Northern…

Apple stores “unavailable” for all users

Apple reported on 11 March that its iTunes, iBooks and App stores were ‘unavailable for all users’, as of 5.10pm GMT. iCloud services were also affected earlier in the day,…

Adobe enters bug hunting programme

Adobe is now offering recognition – but not money – to hackers who find security flaws in its software. The company has joined the HackerOne forum to tap the external…

Load testing failures disrupt state exams

Inadequate software load-testing this week derailed school examinations across the US state of Florida. From Monday, thousands of students aged 13-16 tried to log-on to computerised exams, but more than 2,000…

IBM blamed for social security “meltdown”

Canada’s largest province has said that a software error breached the privacy of hundreds of people. In a statement released to local media, officials in Ontario said that 720 benefits…

Testing times for the banking sector

Richard Lowe, Financial Services Account Director, SQS, argues that IT failures in the banking world are now commonplace. While some are more visible than others, they will keep happening as long as the banking industry continues to…

Terabyte per second mobile speed achieved for 5G

Researchers at the UK’s University of Surrey have achieved mobile data speeds of above 1Tbps, far faster than any previously recorded. Professor Rahim Tafazolli, the director of the university’s state-funded…

The Top 10 software failures of 2014

Software quality specialists SQS have run an industry survey to identify the top 10 software failures of last year. The results were as follows – although at least one was arguably an example of operator…

Microsoft adopts ISO cloud privacy standard

On 16 February Brad Smith, Microsoft’s chief lawyer, announced that the company had become the first to meet ISO/IEC 27018, designed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to ensure the confidentiality…

Dawn of the billion-dollar cyber-heist

A sophisticated spear-phishing gang has stolen as much $1 billion from banks and other financial institutions in the past two years, according to computer security company Kaspersky Lab. On 14…

Almost a third of lost data irrecoverable

Recent research from data recovery specialist Kroll Ontrack reveals that, over a 12-month period from 2013-14, one in four workers lost work data due to malfunction or corruption of technology,…

Feeding the 9.6 billion

If it is to feed the 9.6 billion global population predicted by 2050, the farming industry must embrace the internet of things (IoT), says Therese Cory, Senior Analyst at Beecham…

Joined up thinking

Jeremy Payne, International Group Marketing Director, Enghouse Interactive, discusses the results of a survey which reveals that, in a world where customer service expectations are increasingly polarised by age, if…
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