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Ever wondered where the term ‘bug’ came from? Well, on September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on.
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 ...
But while trawling through the latest supposed information about Nvidia's next-gen gaming and pro GPUs I was reminded of Dr. Grace Hopper, the first person to make famous a computer bug.
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. These early computers were ...
Internet-security experts crafted a fix for a previously undisclosed bug in security tools used by all modern Web browsers. But deploying the fix could break the Internet for thousands of websites.
The Bash Bug could cause massive damage if it's used to create an Internet "worm" -- lines of malicious computer coding that wiggle from one vulnerable server to the next. A worm that reaches ...
Sidiroglou-Douskos and his coauthors -- MIT professor of computer science and engineering ... the recipient to crash and one that doesn't. A bug-locating program that the same group reported ...