In our reading of the record, parts of this are accurate. Parts are not. The underlying problem is real, and more specific than the headline suggests.
What the spacecraft actually run
The Voyager onboard computers run assembly language written for purpose-built General Electric interrupt-driven processors, designed and fabricated in the early 1970s. Three computer systems sit on each spacecraft: the Computer Command Subsystem, the Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem, and the Flight Data Subsystem. The FDS is the one most often in the news, because it packages science and engineering data for transmission and was the subsystem at the centre of Voyager 1’s five-month communications failure in late 2023 and early 2024.