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A software bug in Formula 1 cars' anti-cheating protections mistakenly triggered 60-second hybrid motor shutdowns during slow formation laps in the rain, halving the field and forcing the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix to be restarted at Malaysia's Sepang circuit.
A power unit software glitch in wet weather mode caused multiple F1 cars to get stuck in idle during the formation laps at Sepang, forcing the FIA to deploy an emergency software patch and delaying the race start by 50 minutes. Drivers including Lando Norris, Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso criticised the incident as proof the sport has become overly reliant on electronics and software.
A scheduler reported success for days due to misinterpreting exit codes, where exit code 0 only indicates no crash. The fix involved reading worker-reported outcomes instead of relying solely on exit codes to determine success.
The article describes a bug where OpenOffice fails to print only on Tuesdays, caused by an error in the 'file' utility's pattern matching that misidentifies PostScript files as Erlang JAM files due to date formatting.
A historical account of a sporadic bug in Word 97 caused by a CPU erratum, resolved through binary patching to minimize risks during the release cycle.
The article discusses a long-standing bug in SQLite's WAL-reset mechanism that caused data loss and corruption, reproducing it with a 100-line C workload to demonstrate the race condition.
Charlie Marsh shares a link to a strange GitHub bug, referred to as the 'pancake thing'.
Waymo is voluntarily recalling about 3,800 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix a software glitch that allowed them to drive into flooded roads, following incidents in Austin and San Antonio.