💡 Geeksta Weekly Fact Drop 💡

The first-ever computer bug was literally a bug. 🪲💻

In 1947, engineers at Harvard found a moth stuck inside a relay of the Mark II computer, causing it to malfunction. They removed it and taped it into their logbook, labeling it as the “first actual case of a bug being found.”

Grace Hopper, one of the pioneers of computer science, helped popularize the term debugging and the rest is history!

Crazy to think that software bugs started with real insects. 🧐

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Reason #662 for using dark mode is to not be as bothered by the bugs Samsung delivered inside their monitors from factory* once they decide to go and die in the middle of the screen.

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#CyberSecurity #AMD #Sinkclose #ComputerBugs #Vulnerability: "Now security researchers have found one such flaw that has persisted in AMD processors for decades, and that would allow malware to burrow deep enough into a computer's memory that, in many cases, it may be easier to discard a machine than to disinfect it.

At the Defcon hacker conference, Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski, researchers from the security firm IOActive, plan to present a vulnerability in AMD chips they're calling Sinkclose. The flaw would allow hackers to run their own code in one of the most privileged modes of an AMD processor, known as System Management Mode, designed to be reserved only for a specific, protected portion of its firmware. IOActive's researchers warn that it affects virtually all AMD chips dating back to 2006, or possibly even earlier."

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/almost-unfixable-sinkclose-bug-affects-hundreds-of-millions-of-amd-cpus

🐛 Did you know that in 1947, a technician found a real bug in their computer? 🖥️🔍 It was a moth that had gotten into a relay! 🦋 However, the term "bug" was already being used in technical circles back then. 📚 This might be the first recorded instance of a "bug" in a computer, but not the origin of the term. 🤔

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