We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...

Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable toilets saw a run on rentals, there were some serious preparations 25 ...

In a new twist on Y2K readiness, the Arlington Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, called on the media Monday to help fix the problem. But they weren’t talking about the computer problem; rather ...

Kyle Mooney’s new Y2K movie, which opens in theaters this weekend, asks the question: What would have happened if Y2K was, in fact, a technological disaster? Anyone over the age of 30 no doubt ...

On the 25th anniversary of the Y2K scare, the eponymous film pokes fun at internet disasters. But real disruptions may loom in the future. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The ...

For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter century ago, it was the dawn of an impending global meltdown. The tension ...

Remember the Y2K bug that threatened computer programs to go crazy on January 1, 2000? A similar timestamp recognition problem is affecting Splunk platform instances neglected by their administrators ...