From a moth lodged in a computer's relay component in 1947 to costly failures in space and healthcare — a retrospective on ...

"Bug" was not a new term for an electrical problem in 1947. Hopper had used the word as early as 1945, and she also wrote about "debugging" defective computer programs.

By “bug” I mean hardware problems, program errors or even real bugs. A common hardware bug is when electrical contacts in a computer become oxidized or work themselves loose.

AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy ...

Detecting bugs in computer programs is an expensive task, and there is no way of measuring their efficacy without knowing exactly how many go unnoticed. To tackle this problem, researchers have ...

The bug snatched a copy of the owner's e-mail address book and his computer's file directory structure, then e-mailed the pilfered data back to the laptop owner to show the level of access it had ...

Heartbleed is the latest computer glitch affecting millions of internet users on thousands of popular websites. Cyber security experts say Heartbleed is a bug, not a virus. What's the difference?

In typical computer programming, comments written in plain English explain what the program is supposed to do. But cryptic symbols, much harder to read and understand, actually do the work.

Billed as the kinder, gentler update to Windows, the latest version 1909 is still plagued by persistent wake-up and botched search.

A team led by Princeton computer scientist Andrew Appel aims to exterminate software "bugs," the maddening but unintended programming errors that can open our lives to hackers and thieves, mess up our ...

The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of the language of computer programmers. Among those working on the Mark II in 1947 was mathematician and computer programmer Grace Hopper, who ...

Microsoft took the unusual step of warning that a computer bug it has now patched could be used by a cyber weapon similar to the WannaCry worm, which spread across the globe two years ago.