Subpostmasters used pre-Horizon Capture software without any training from the Post Office, a failing that mirrors one of the causes of the Post Office Horizon scandal. Despite a Post Office document ...

Last week’s CrowdStrike computer bug caused outages and headaches across the globe for some computers running Microsoft Windows — which is reportedly somewhere around three-quarters of all PCs ...

Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters Software ...

Citrix and Sophos products have been impacted by leap year flaws, leading to unexpected problems in their products. Leap years solve the synchronization problem caused by the Gregorian calendar ...

U.K.-based 1E, which detects software problems on desktop PCs remotely, has been acquired by Germany-based remote-working company TeamViewer for $720 million. This is TeamViewer’s biggest acquisition ...

The personal computer and mobile phone industries have mastered the art of the painless recall: A quick click on a software update, and a few minutes later, the electronic devices are bug-free. Could ...

A survey of 280 software engineers conducted in October has reported that over half (53%) suspected that malpractices were occuring in the workplace. Among the specific areas of wrongdoing mentioned ...

How can you determine how much money you need to earn to live in a particular city? How can a town, state, or country ensure its elections are free of hacking and fraud? Computer science is all about ...

The function and utility of computers has changed and evolved at an exponential rate over the last several years, and will likely continue to do so, particularly as advancements like artificial ...

One of the most powerful features of language-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, or AWS Code Whisperer is the ability to create computer code. After all, code is just another ...