Computers are now a central element of our life:
now there is practically nothing that does not pass, in one way or another, through a computer or a computer network.
Whether we talk about interpersonal communication, online games, or services of any kind, it is very rare that today at least in some moments it does not go digital. This is why it is essential that everything works perfectly:
a malfunction of a computer can have major consequences,
which sometimes run the risk of potentially dramatic repercussions.

WHEN COMPUTERS BECAME MALE 

Sometimes the malfunction can be due to a programming error: the story is full of it.
The software of the Mercy Medical Center in St. Mary, Grand Rapids hospital in Michigan,
it "killed" 8,500 patients, fortunately only on paper.
Due to a computer problem, all patients operated between 25 October and 11 December 2003 were reported dead by the software,
although all were alive and well.
All well what ends well?
Up to a certain point, because the software has communicated the "departure" also to public bodies and insurance companies,
and therefore you can imagine the bureaucratic process which I "died" had to undergo to prove that they are still alive.
In October 2005, however, a software error led to the early release of 23 prisoners in the US,
so the bars are open between 39 and 161 days in advance.
Fortunately all these unnecessary committed serious crimes:
this is not the case, again in the United States, for as many as 450 prisoners for serious crimes who have been granted probation although their sentence condemns the exclusion explicitly.
Many of these took advantage of this to lose their tracks.
The most curious bug, however, is perhaps one within the World of Warcraft online game:
an error in the introduction of a new weapon for role-playing characters in a sort of virtual epidemic,
in which the players' characters lost strength until they died.
We wanted a while before the success was correct, but the incident brought a positive side effect: several studied the development dynamics of the "disease" to understand how an epidemic spreads,
an analysis that (fortunately) is not possible for humans, to improve health protection protocols.
But the bug that could have had the worst consequences in history concerned a malfunction of the Soviet anti-missile alert systems,
that the night of September 26, 1983 erroneously found a nuclear missile launch by the United States.
The consequence was to be immediate retaliation, with the launch of Russian nuclear missiles, which inevitably triggered the actual launch of American atomic bombs.
World War III did not break out on its own because the Russian officer on duty, Stanislav Petrov, was doubtful that an American attack would occur on his own with a handful of missiles, q
when it would have been logical for him to expect a surprise attack happening with the greatest possible violence to try to inflict the greatest possible damage to the enemy and minimize his reaction skills.
His intuition saved the world from total destruction.