After the story came out, Delta said it was due to a computer glitch that lasted about 19 days.
Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has been put into "safe mode" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files.
It was to have orbited Eros in January 1999, but a computer glitch ordered Near's rocket to misfire.
The millennium bug is a computer glitch which results from dates being stored in two-digit form on older computers.
Staffers at the Wall Street Journal got a taste of that world recently when they suffered a computer glitch that completely knocked out access to e-mail and the Web.
On Monday morning, a computer glitch at the FAA's regional center in Fremont, California, led to the loss of all northern California and western Nevada flight plans, resulting in a backup of flights.
CNN: US - FAA suspends software upgrades following California computer glitches
But soon after, the State Department said the electronic draw would have to be held again because a computer glitch caused 90% of the winners to be selected from the first two days of applications instead of the entire 30-day registration period.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a botched State Department lottery in which some 22, 000 foreign applicants were informed that they had won a chance for a U.S. resident visa only to have it later retracted due to a computer glitch.
Washington (CNN) -- JetBlue Airways is apologizing for a "computer glitch" it blames for a family being told their 18-month-old daughter was on a government no-fly list.
However, scores of residents went directly to the terminal, prompting confusion, as did a glitch in the computer system being used to register people.
CNN: Mandatory evacuations to begin Sunday morning in New Orleans
The head of space agency Roscosmos said that an investigation into the short-lived spacecraft had discovered that radiation caused a glitch in the onboard computer system, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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But utility service outages are a standard part of life in such nations and so it may be impossible to tell, at least at first, whether outages near the first of the new year are related to the year 2000 computer glitch or just a normal daily event.
The glitch is the latest in a series of computer problems to hit banks' IT systems.
According to local reports, the Austrian cash machine glitch occurred at 1415 GMT when a central computer was unable to cope with the unusually high volume of withdrawal requests.
Worse, I found that if DirecPC failed to update the site on my hard disk because of a glitch in its service, or I didn't leave my computer on, the news would be a day old.
An umbrella group of civil society activists had launched a court case to try to stop the vote count, saying election officials had not explained the nature of the computer glitch.
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