My wife Minnie's computer refused to start after we returned from a trip to see the recent solar eclipse. I tried various remedies, and each time, the screen responded by displaying a grid of ...

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. In ...

Photo Caption: This scorpion became a computer bug whose legs bridged several electrical contacts and prevented Minnie Mims' computer from starting. Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. My wife ...

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.

He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window.

For now, the Bash Bug appears to be more of a potential nuisance than a major threat. It's a more vexing problem for Mac owners. The Bash Bug makes it easy for hackers to take control of a Mac ...

Bugs That Go Through Computer Screens. March 14, 2001. By Leslie Walker. You've got bugs. At least, I bet you've picked up a few "Web bugs" if you've gone anywhere online.

Among those working on the Mark II in 1947 was mathematician and computer programmer Grace Hopper, who later became a Navy rear admiral. This log book was probably not Hopper's, but she and the rest ...

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.

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.