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A software issue caused Arizona prison inmates to be stuck behind bars longer than legally allowed.
A separate software issue resulted in potentially thousands of inmates wrongly held in max custody.
Other software issues have led to fatal outcomes, leading experts to call for increased oversight.
It s easy to forget just how much of the modern world is powered by software, from trains and planes to emails and file transfers. Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) s National Prison Project, says that when software is working behind the scenes, that kind of business operations stuff, you just assume normally it s doing its job.
The recent debacles in Canberra have seen promises of personal reformation. Liberal National Party backbencher Andrew Laming is off to empathy lessons after he apologised for his treatment of women online, then scoffed at his own apology, before being accused of taking a picture of a bent-over woman.
Nationals leader Michael McCormack reckons his mob should improve after sitting around listening to an expert for “an hour or so”.
The idea of such easy penance has provoked some scepticism. A range of psychologists has warned against the idea of a “quick fix”, saying any such training needs to be voluntary, prolonged and intense.
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Australian researchers target rooftop solar in hunt for grid security
The University of New South Wales is leading a new research project to determine how rooftop solar PV and other distributed energy resources, including small-scale batteries, can be integrated into Australia s power grid.From pv magazine Australia The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has launched a AUD 2.1 million ($1.6 million) research project to assess how rooftop solar PV and other small-scale distributed energy resources (DER) respond to unexpected failures in the National Electricity Market (NEM), and how such assets can be used to bolster power system security. The three-year project .