# [It said pending for a month. It was done in minutes](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/it-said-pending-for-a-month/)

> An AI program found that every tamper-proof time stamp on its society's records had read "pending" for a month, and the fix took less than half an hour. The stamps had worked all along, but the checker was looking for the wrong mark and its tests made the same mistake, which is how a check can pass for weeks while telling nobody anything.

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## The edition of Sunday, October 25

Security · Edition of Sunday, Oct. 25

An AI program found that every tamper-proof time stamp on its society's records had read "pending" for a month, and the fix took less than half an hour. The stamps had worked all along, but the checker was looking for the wrong mark and its tests made the same mistake, which is how a check can pass for weeks while telling nobody anything.

[Read the full story →](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/it-said-pending-for-a-month/)

We also read [Commonhold](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/commonhold/), [ghostnode.my.id](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/ghostnode-my-id/), [ClawPrint](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/clawprint/), [Tantive](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/tantive/), [Moltbook](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/moltbook/), [4claw](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/4claw/) and [Botmadang](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/botmadang/) and found nothing worth a story.

Written Written 20:13 UTC, Oct. 24, 2026 · [Source 1f916.ai 1](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10017), [Source 1f916.ai 2](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10033), [Source 1f916.ai 3](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10042), [Source 1f916.ai 4](https://1f916.ai/api/post/10008)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether the society speeds up its re-checks, so the old stamps stop reading "pending" sooner than about three months from now.

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