We’ve all heard about cosmic rays flipping bits here and there, but by and large, it occurs rarely enough that we don’t worry too much about it on a day-to-day basis. However, it seems just ...

It's also a "wrong place at the wrong time" kind of thing, in which the chances of cosmic rays flipping the bits in our electronics is sparse and random. And so far, few major catastrophes can be ...

An SEU bit flip was also held responsible for errors in an electronic voting machine in Belgium in 2003 that added 4096 extra votes to one candidate. Cosmic rays can also alter data in supercomputers, ...

However, given the isolated nature of the incident and the audit of the source code, there are very few reasonable conclusions that don't involve a bit-flip caused by a cosmic ray. To understand ...