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Sofware Bug Linked To Blackout

A programming error has been identified as the cause of alarm failures that might have contributed to the scope of last summer's Northeast blackout.

A U.S.-Canadian task force investigating the blackout said in November that FirstEnergy employees failed to take steps that could have isolated utility failures because its data-monitoring and alarm computers weren’t working.

Read the whole story at CNN.com.

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