The phrase "a computer bug" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an error or flaw in a computer program or system that causes it to produce incorrect or unexpected results.
Example: "After hours of troubleshooting, we finally identified a computer bug that was causing the software to crash."
Alternatives: "software glitch" or "program error."
So it began to make sense that a computer bug could take down the world.
It's another group grope, not for a computer bug this time, but for a familiar insect once kept in check with a spritz of Off! and a slap.
A computer bug which could allow hackers to take control of hundreds of millions of devices all over the world has been discovered, forcing governments to take immediate steps to protect their critical infrastructure.
In the book, "The Signal and the Noise," which is about the science of predictions, Silver writes that Deep Blue's crucial move in the match might have been caused by a computer bug.
But in the late 1990s there arose fears of a computer bug named Y2K, which was so worrisome that President Clinton actually appointed a Y2K czar to prepare the country for the worst.
BERLIN — Siemens, the German engineering company, made virus scanning software available to its clients Thursday after learning of the existence of a computer bug designed to attack one of its best-selling industrial automation systems.
Way back in the last century, computer scientists and I.T. guys began warning that a strange computer bug lay dormant in just about every computer in the world.
Reinventing the story of Frankenstein and his sentient monster as an allegory for the birth of the computer, this first novel takes place in Silicon Valley in 1984, when its heroine, a Ph.D. in the "linguistics of poetics," becomes enamored with an elusive computer bug called "the Jester" that threatens to bring down her company.
The association issued similar warnings in 1999, when people were concerned about a Year 2000 computer bug.
The central bank had good reasons for doing so -- first, the global financial crisis and then concerns about a run on banks associated with fears about a potential year 2000 computer bug.
The conditions were far from glamorous, but the female programmers were known for their meticulous work ethic and attention to detail: Hopper famously identified the first-ever computer "bug," tracing a glitch back to a moth trapped in a relay wire.
