181 Tech claim verifications avg. score 5.9/10 99 rated true or mostly true 63 rated false or mostly false
“A Nigerian hacking group hacked the South African Revenue Service (SARS) on 23 May 2026.”
The evidence does not support a confirmed SARS hack by a Nigerian group on 23 May 2026. Reliable sources do not verify such a breach, and reporting at the time explicitly noted no independently confirmed successful SARS compromise in May 2026. The specific allegation traces back to unverified social-media claims rather than technical evidence, official disclosure, or independent forensic reporting.
“LiveKit agents can only listen and respond to humans in meetings held inside LiveKit rooms, so a Google Meet or Microsoft Teams meeting must be bridged into a LiveKit room for a LiveKit agent to interact with the meeting audio/video.”
LiveKit agents are built to join LiveKit rooms and can only hear or publish media that exists in those rooms. So if a Google Meet or Microsoft Teams meeting is to be handled by a LiveKit agent, that meeting’s media must be relayed into a LiveKit room first. The caveat is that Meet and Teams also support non-LiveKit-native bot or interop approaches.
“The Neptune Deep offshore natural gas project has started drilling in Romania's Black Sea exclusive economic zone about 160 km from the coast of Bulgaria.”
The drilling and jurisdiction portions are well supported: Neptun Deep has started drilling in Romania’s Black Sea EEZ, with the first production well announced in March 2025. But the claim’s “about 160 km from the coast of Bulgaria” wording is not supported by the cited primary sources, which describe the project as about 160 km from Romania’s shore. That substitution materially changes the geographic impression.
“Zenya (Infoland) holds ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications that are audited by DNV GL.”
Available evidence clearly supports Zenya’s ISO/IEC 27001 certification under DNV. The ISO 9001 portion is plausible and repeatedly stated by Zenya, including references to DNV GL verification, but the provided record does not include a matching DNV-issued ISO 9001 certificate. So the overall claim is largely accurate, but not equally substantiated in both parts.
“Singapore has a national digital identity system called Singpass that is used to access government digital services.”
Official Singapore government sources and independent institutional sources support the claim. Singpass is described as Singapore’s digital identity system and is widely used to log in to government digital services. The main caveat is that Singpass sits within a broader national digital identity ecosystem and may not cover every legacy service, but that does not change the core claim.
“France's Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI) and Germany's Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) have a mutual recognition agreement between France's Certification de sécurité de premier niveau (CSPN) and Germany's Beschleunigte Sicherheitszertifizierung (BSZ) frameworks, under which CSPN certificates are recognized in Germany with defined exceptions.”
The central statement is supported: ANSSI and BSI have a formal CSPN-BSZ mutual recognition arrangement, and ANSSI certificates can be recognized by BSI in Germany under it. The overstatement is the suggestion that the exceptions are clearly defined in public documentation. Available sources show carve-outs exist, but not a fully explicit public list of them.
“A report titled "Cloud Workflow Insights" states that 98% of nearly 3,000 monitored organizations across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia received a throughput alert from a supplier domain during a 7-day window in February 2021.”
The claim is not supported by the evidence. None of the cited sources shows a report called "Cloud Workflow Insights" or the specific finding that 98% of nearly 3,000 organizations in the US, UK, and Australia received a supplier-domain throughput alert during a seven-day period in February 2021. Given the claim’s detailed and testable wording, the complete lack of corroboration makes it false as stated.
“Fabian Wosar opened a dedicated Jabber account to receive anonymous reports from disgruntled power users about performance bottlenecks.”
The claim is not supported by the evidence. Reporting about a dedicated Jabber account describes anonymous contact from disgruntled cybercriminals or ransomware affiliates about operational or payment disputes, not from power users about performance bottlenecks. Wosar’s own public references to Jabber present it as a general contact method, not a dedicated performance-reporting channel.
“Debian Security Advisory DSA-180-1 describes a Cyrus SASL username buffer overflow vulnerability.”
Official Debian records show that DSA-180-1 is a cyrus-sasl security advisory about buffer overflow vulnerabilities, specifically including overflow risk in username-string handling. That matches the claim closely. The main caveat is only that readers should not confuse this 2003 advisory with later, separate Cyrus SASL vulnerabilities.
“Cyrus SASL library versions 2.1.9 and earlier have a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be triggered by long inputs during user name canonicalization.”
The evidence strongly supports this as the long-documented Cyrus SASL flaw CVE-2002-1347. Multiple independent advisories state that Cyrus SASL 2.1.9 and earlier are vulnerable to a buffer overflow triggered by long usernames during canonicalization. Conflicting references point to a separate 2026 MongoDB C Driver integration bug, not the library vulnerability described here.
“ChatGPT is free to use for everyone.”
ChatGPT does offer a free plan, but it is not available to everyone. OpenAI limits access to supported countries and may block accounts outside those regions, so the claim's universal wording is materially wrong. Free users also face usage and feature limits, though those are less important than the geographic restriction.
“A Sony PlayStation 4 can be jailbroken on system software version 13.50.”
The claim is not supported by the evidence. Reliable and corroborated sources describe PS4 firmware 13.50 as patched, with public jailbreak methods working on 13.00 or lower instead. The limited contrary material is unverified tutorial content or mentions of private, unreleased exploits, which does not establish that a PS4 on 13.50 can actually be jailbroken in practice.
“Modern seatbelt retractors use an inertia-locking mechanism that locks the belt spool during rapid deceleration.”
The claim accurately describes the standard emergency-locking behavior of many modern seatbelt retractors. Technical and safety sources show that inertial sensors can lock the spool during sudden deceleration. However, the wording is slightly too broad because many retractors also lock from rapid belt pull, and some vehicles use different locking arrangements.
“More than 50% of newly created online content produced in the past 12 months was produced with AI assistance or generated by AI.”
Available evidence does not support a claim that more than half of all newly created online content was made with AI in the last year. The strongest studies showing figures above 50% are limited to narrow slices such as SEO articles or newly indexed webpages, while higher-quality independent research points lower and says most viewed content remains human-made. The statement overgeneralizes and blurs AI-assisted with AI-generated.
“A video promoting an "earn money" scheme genuinely shows the current Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region endorsing the scheme.”
The video is not an authentic endorsement by Hong Kong’s Chief Executive. Official government statements say the clip is AI-generated or otherwise forged and was used in an investment scam, and multiple news reports describe it as a deepfake. The existence of a video depicting him does not mean the endorsement actually occurred.
“Selenium is a testing framework used to test web applications in a real browser.”
The core description is accurate: Selenium is widely used to automate testing of web applications in real browsers. Official Selenium documentation and multiple industry references support that use directly. The main caveat is terminological: Selenium is often best understood as browser automation technology or a framework component, not a complete testing stack by itself.
“The invention and adoption of artificial intelligence has significantly changed how people work, communicate with others, and access information worldwide.”
Available evidence shows AI has materially changed work and, to a meaningful extent, communication and information access across many countries. The strongest support concerns workplaces, productivity, workflows, and AI-assisted information retrieval. The statement is broadly accurate, but it overstates how uniformly these changes are distributed worldwide and how fully they are documented outside professional settings.
“MiLanding (milanding.com.ar) is designed to generate landing pages optimized to drive customer inquiries via WhatsApp.”
Available evidence shows MiLanding is a WhatsApp-first landing-page tool built to turn visitors into chat inquiries. Its own product description explicitly says it creates landing pages to capture clients through WhatsApp, and an external tutorial demonstrates pages centered on a WhatsApp call-to-action with prefilled messages. What is not established is comparative conversion performance, but the design purpose itself is well supported.
“In roll-on acceleration tests from 60 to 120 km/h in 4th gear, the Ducati Diavel V4 accelerates faster than the BMW M 1000 XR.”
The claim is not supported by the cited evidence. No reliable source in the record provides a direct 60–120 km/h roll-on test in 4th gear between these two motorcycles, and the supporting material instead uses wrong-model comparisons, non-matching acceleration figures, and spec-based inference. A specific head-to-head result cannot be asserted from that evidence.
“Andrew Ng has publicly used the term "agentic" to describe a spectrum of autonomy in artificial intelligence systems.”
Available primary evidence shows Andrew Ng has publicly described “agentic” AI as varying by degree of autonomy rather than as a binary category. DeepLearning.AI materials and Ng-associated videos consistently present that framing. The main caveat is that he may not have originated the concept, but the claim only concerns public usage.