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.

Checking for bugs as we go Debugging is a very important part of writing a good algorithm or computer program and it works best when we check for bugs as we go along, rather than at the end.

Our son, Eric, is a university computer network administrator. Eric said this kind of issue suggests a hardware problem - a "bug" - and advised removing and reinserting all the connectors and ...

WeLiveSecurity takes a look back at the life of the programming pioneer US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who changed the world of technology.

Apparently we call them bugs because Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II on September 9, 1945.

Meltdown and Spectre are scary less for their immediate effects, and more for the big questions they bring up about computer safety.

The bug is called either the Bash bug or Shellshock, and because it affects so many devices—including Apple computers, many webcams, and servers that run Linux—security experts such as Robert ...