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Showing 17 posts that have the tag

“human error”

Blob Front-End Bug Bursts Microsoft Azure Cloud

11-hour intermittent global outages helped along by operator error

24 Nov 2014

2 min read

Woman in front of wall-sized display showing Japanese financial information.

Bad memories of 2005 fat finger failure revived

06 Oct 2014

2 min read

French Hospital's Computer “Bug” Trashes a Fortune in Perfectly Good Drugs

Whistleblowers say the waste is in the hundreds of thousands of euros a year; hospital administrators put it at "only" €30,000 annually

16 Jun 2014

5 min read

How a Misplaced Decimal Point Led to €188 Million in Unintended Gov't Largesse

Great Firewall of China causes national Web outage, while Gmail and other Google services go down

27 Jan 2014

4 min read