Cosmic rays flipping bits: changing election results and aircraft nosedive

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	Cosmic rays flipping bits: changing election results and aircraft nosedive (youtube.com)
	1 points by random_walker 1744 days ago

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Tomte 1744 days ago

Fun fact: bit-flips in microcontrollers usually don't originate with cosmic radiation, but with chip packaging which is (or can be) very slightly radioactive.

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geoah 1744 days ago

A pretty bad edge case with an old intel cpu was mentioned in the linked video as well.

An interesting case of bitflips also came up a couple of months back having to do with google’s certificate transparency log. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287

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