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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The incident highlights the profound reliance on IT infrastructure and underscores the urgent need for robust system resilience and contingency planning. The unprecedented global IT outage on the ...

We may never realize how much the world relies on software until it doesn’t work. That’s a lesson that went into overdrive during the CrowdStrike software debacle that created the “largest IT outage ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tesla has recalled more than 1.8 million vehicles across the U.S. due to the risk of the cars crashing, the National ...

Cybersecurity practitioners take a community-driven approach to solving problems. Security researchers share the vulnerabilities they find with the broader cybersecurity community, which allows ...

Ford Motor is recalling 254,640 SUVs in the United States after NHTSA documents said a software defect can cause the Image Processing Module A to repeatedly reset, leading to loss of the rearview ...

The field of software reliability has become increasingly vital as software systems underpin many aspects of modern life. Software reliability growth models (SRGMs) offer a quantitative means of ...

Auctor has raised $20 million of funding as it develops a new platform aimed at ensuring major enterprise software ...