How an irritating acquaintance became shorthand for a computer glitch.

There is an interesting story from the history of technology behind the term "computer bug." Surprisingly, the word "bug" in this context originated not from a virus, but from an actual insect. The ...

A fix for a new computer bug could impact more than 20,000 websites, rendering them unreadable. WSJ's Jennifer ...

Engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 found a moth jammed inside the machine’s relay hardware. They taped the dead insect into the operations log book and scrawled a now-famous ...

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 crawled into an ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. American engineers have been calling ...

Members of the Legendary Computer Bugs Tribunal, honored guests, if I may have your attention? I would, humbly, submit a new contender for your esteemed judgment. You may or may not find it novel, you ...

NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...

A new computer language designed to avoid unforeseen programming errors could prevent many computer security breaches, according to the US researchers behind the project. The language Cyclone is being ...

You can expect some computer bugs when dealing with laptops designed for students, but what about actual bugs? According to WRAL, families of students at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C. are ...