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.

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 ...

"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.

Computer scientists at UC Davis have developed a technique to speed up program debugging by automatically "chipping" the software into smaller pieces so that bugs can be isolated more easily. Computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Internet-security experts have crafted a fix for a new computer bug in security software used by all modern Web browsers. But deploying the fix could break the Internet for thousands of websites.

Saying that, the term "bug" started to become popular in the post-war years to describe a computer malfunction after an incident in 1947.

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth ...

A bug in the latest update to Windows 10 could result in the infamous Blue Screen of Death when you attempt to print from your PC. Find out how to avoid it here.