KGB Chairman Charkov’s question to inorganic chemist Valery Legasov in HBO’s “Chernobyl” miniseries makes a good epitaph for the hundreds of software development, modernization, and operational ...

The task force responsible for investigating the cause of the Aug. 14 blackout that crippled most of the Northeast corridor of the U.S. and parts of Canada concluded that a software failure at ...

The Nissan Kicks Display Recall affects over 51,000 SUVs from the 2025 and 2026 model years due to a software issue that can cause the digital ...

Talking to Robert N. Charette can be pretty depressing. Charette, who has been writing about software failures for this magazine for the past 20 years, is a renowned risk analyst and systems expert ...

BURBANK, Ill. -- You may not realize that your car, just like your phone, needs updating or it could break down. But some consumers say they are not receiving ...

Modern software systems rarely collapse all at once. More often, reliability erodes quietly-latency rises, throughput declines, and resources strain under growing demand. By the time users notice ...

Everyone knows now how a flawed update crashed 8.5 million computers running the Windows version of CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity software — but what does the failure of one company’s software ...

The software has a bad spec. It wasn't actually supposed to shut down at limit X. It's a software bug. The matchine glitched out and didn't work as intended. Click to expand... As an old crotchety ...

The task force investigating the cause of the August blackout that crippled much of the Northeast and parts of Canada concluded that a software failure at Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. “may have ...

It didn't take long at all. The ship launched on Tuesday and was intended to dock on Wednesday. A very conservative fail-safe routine tripped during an engine burn, leaving the ship in a safe lower ...