It was reported today that due to a software malfunction nicknamed Shrek, 30,000 ugly people managed to join the dating website Beautiful People.

The problem involved a software malfunction at the bureau's facility in Clarksburg, W. Va., and was not a result of computer hacking, Mr. Fischer said.

Officials in her office have said, for example, that she believes Florida law permits recounts only when there is a counting error, like a software malfunction, in voting machinery.

My bet is that you will find the source of the problems there is a simple software malfunction.

The ride experienced a software malfunction that caused it to fall backwards down the wrong shaft.

But the report also asserted that without the software malfunction, the Osprey probably could have limped to a safe landing.

It wasn't supposed to happen, but unless there was some kind of software malfunction, somebody had somehow accessed his primary input signal.

Cassini was unable to collect data with its cosmic dust analyzer due to an unknown software malfunction.

In December 2002, 711 crashed during a ferry flight, effectively bringing an end to the programme; the fault was later traced to a software malfunction.

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