AI Weekly Malaysia

A Tesco store in Coventry had Avery Berkel XT-series produce scales displaying HTTP-style error codes (404 and 403) on their touchscreens, likely running Linux with 2-8GB RAM. The scales also show video ads to increase basket value, and the 403 unit displayed a plea for human intervention with its label feed.

Why: Minimal practical takeaway; this is an offbeat bork column, not an incident write-up with root cause or remediation. At most it's a reminder that embedded Linux point-of-sale devices with touchscreens and ad-serving are now common enough in retail that their failure modes look like web server errors.