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Rise of the machines

It was only a matter of time before computers became sentient and decided that we were the biggest threat to this planet, so it comes as little surprise that the killing has already begun.

Skynet was launched back in March and now the South African National Defence Force is "probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."

SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general Kwena Mangope told The Star that it "is assumed that there was a mechanical problem, which led to the accident. The gun, which was fully loaded, did not fire as it normally should have".

Even more worryingly, the gun had twin 250-round auto-loader magazines containing 500 half kilogram high explosive rounds and only shut down once it had depleted all of it's ammo supplies.

Even with a live fire test you would have thought they would only have given it 10-20 rounds at a time to test, and only given it a full supply of ammunition once it had been tested and cleared for military use.

The robots are coming, and nobody's programmed them with the three laws.

Sarah Connor?