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[dee-buhg] / diˈbʌg /


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The whistleblower account detailed a series of problems with development and testing of the new computer system, which the person said can take nine months to a year to debug.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

On Tuesday, he touted AI’s potential to eventually write and debug code better than any human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

“We’ll debug that later,” Zuckerberg said on stage after he couldn’t answer the WhatsApp call using the wristband and glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

That should help debug systems and also benefit safety, the researchers say: If an AI is planning something dangerous, a human operator can tell and can intervene.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024

Undetectable unless you're running debug at the same time and looking for it.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

It writes academic essays and fairy tales, tells jokes, explains scientific concepts and composes and debugs computer code.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2023

An engineer debugs an instrument at the China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan; scientists use accelerators such as this and the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility to study materials’ behaviour.Credit:

From Nature ● Mar. 19, 2019

A spokesman at Hasbro said the company expected that figure to rise as it debugs the game over the coming weeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have downloaded it, debugged it and redeployed it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The team has now synthesized and debugged all sixteen yeast chromosomes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023

It will be “a profound development in spaceflight if and when Starship is debugged and operational,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2023

These are not programs with single-line instructions that can be debugged easily.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

The only exception was that each team was permitted one laptop for work on the project, but it had to be handed over to be scanned, debugged, and approved for use.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Anthropic says Fable 5 is exceptionally good at writing and debugging software code, answering complex research questions and analyzing images.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The agents then perform tasks such as sending emails and debugging code and even calling restaurants to make reservations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

He encourages users to engage with the technology as a dynamic co-pilot for tasks ranging from debugging code to planning a vacation.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

In 2017, an employee typed the wrong command during a debugging procedure, resulting in the shutdown of more servers than expected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

But instead, it turned out that debugging these asynchronous multithreaded programs was really hard.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams




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