UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers

Shoppers at a Tesco supermarket in Coventry, England, have encountered some peculiar error messages on the store's digital produce scales. The Register reports that the devices, which run on Linux, have been displaying numbers like four zero four and four zero three. While these numbers are widely known in computing as codes for 'not found' and 'forbidden,' it remains unclear if they are actual system errors or simply device identifiers.

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