Telstra Selling 32GB HTC One XL (4G) From June 5 
Aussie Teen's Picture Of Cash On Facebook Leads To Home Robbery 
Motorola Defy Mini Review 
The Downside Of Living In A Digital World 
Australia, NZ And South Africa To Share Square Kilometre Array 
Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Rose Martin has been visited by police some 50 times in eight years, stemming from her involvement in crimes ranging from robbery to murder. Of course, she’s not actually involved, but the NYPD’s computers continue to think otherwise.
Walmart’s told the Christian Science Monitor, of all people, that they won’t be selling the Nexus One through its Walmart Wireless arm, despite a product page saying otherwise. That page has now disappeared, and blamed as a “technical error”.
After looking at this FBI Cybersquad image last week, I’m not surprised to hear that crappy government software that can’t account for misspellings was the main reason why the underwear bomber was able to get on a Northwest Airlines flight.
In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they’ve realised that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation.
When Windows fails to refresh its screen properly, it can lead to frustration. Or an Escher-like piece of art. [TecheBlog, with video]
Apparently there’s a huge storm coming up in New Bedford, which will cover most of Massachusetts with a low pressure Windows error system, and tornado watches for the western region of NBC’s weather PC.
Hath Hell frozen over, or hath an internth presseth the wrong buttoneth? [Thanks Dustin!]
The maker of the evil, wonky voting machines in Ohio that are going to be used for the election despite the fact they’re broken has admitted that the machines do in fact lose votes (before, Premier, aka Diebold, said it was “user error”). It gets better! They can’t be fixed before election day. Hey, it’s not like anyone asked for your opinion anyway. Okay maybe they did, but that’s beside the point, I think. [Columbus Dispatch via Slashdot]
The life of 20-year-old Emine, and her 24-year-old husband Ramazan Çalçoban was pretty much the normal life of any couple in a separation process. After deciding to split up, the two kept having bitter arguments over the mobile phone, sending text messages to each other until one day Ramazan wrote “you change the topic every time you run out of arguments.” That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localisation of the phone’s typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.)
They say smoking and squalor can kill a human, but that’s turning out to be equally true for the Nintendo Wii. The hardware’s disc-reading laser seems incapable of cutting through the grit, grime and second-hand smoke that accumulates on its lens’ glassy veneer. The issue first appeared with Super Smash Bros. Brawl double-layer DVD, and now reports about the launch of Mario Kart Wii this month in Japan show that game is no different. Nintendo will clean your Wii for free, but that will mean a week or so without it. [GameFront via GoNintendo]
