The chances of 2 separate cosmic ray events flipping the exact same bits in program code or its data at the exact same time to cause the computers to return the same defective result is so infinitesimally small that it can be discounted as a realistic scenario.

If this was a cosmic ray then it clearly affected part of the avionics that didn't have triple redundancy. Perhaps they should be looking at that.

I doubt it could make the slop any worse. Might even improve it with a bit of extra random dither occasionally!

No chance of it being slightly out of spec RAM that was sold anyway or perhaps issues with the MB or power supply , no sir, its cosmic rays!

There are and always have been people who like buying old stuff whether its tech, classic cars, clothes or 101 other miscellaneous things. The only problem with tech is that once it breaks that may be the end of it because even an electronics expert cant repair something that requires a replacement ASIC that's no longer made (eg pretty much every 70s, 80s and 90s electronic toy).

I dont want to pay a subscription to a media company ( I already have to pay a license fee for the BBC and that's enough). If theres a film I want to watch and keep I'll buy it on dvd otherwise ill wait for it to turn up on FTA TV.

FTA:
"and the company resolved to migrate its backend to Scala, a more robust language."

If they were serious about performance they'd have skipped all languages except those that run bare metal. Modern C++ is a seriously powerful and fast - albeit perhaps too complicated - language without all the gotchas of older C++ and plain C.

It would even get close to emerging. Free floating RNA and DNA precursors + fatty acids are a tasty lunch to a lot of microorganisms.

If the pictures were encrypted so the company couldn't decrpyt them wtf would be the point of sending them in the first place!? Its a service, not a personal file server for poo pictures.

This "security researcher" seems to lack even basic common sense.

Russian astronaut photographs US hardware to show to his bosses. Wow! Might as well have a headline about the toilet habits of bears or the religion of the pope. The only thing that surprises me is that only now has one of them been caught doing it.

Same thing "dude". Fucks sake.

It must be Irony Day again.

Oh dear, has ickle snowflake been triggered? Go admire the cheesy goth tats on your spotty face in the mirror and calm down.

So injecting an artificial dye into the human body can have deliterious effects! Who'd have thunk it?

Luckily - other than with criminals - covering yourself in naff tats seems to have been a millennial fad that is slowly fading. I guess they still wanted to look tough (failed) while sipping their skinny latte frappucino with whipped cream.

Gen-Z seem to be a bit body smarter.

... as some well meaning albeit flawed tech hero. He's not.

He's just another corporate sociopath - the only thing that matters to him is money and power. He'll only help out when its suits his purposes such as for Good PR , but like a lot of bullies he's also a coward to so won't put up when he really needs to such as in blocking starlink inside parts of russia.

The guys who make the most noise are usually the ones with the smallest balls.