Hawaii's DAGS reflects on the 25th anniversary of Y2K, recalling efforts to prevent chaos and a resulting love story.

Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been, but most, including The Register rolling over to "year Zero," were worth little more than a chuckle.

Now, with the quantum threat, we're faced with another serious challenge to cybersecurity. To see it off, governments must again step in to find a solution.

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25 years ago the world overcame the Y2K crisis. John Barron looks at how Australia beat the millennium bug, a global panic over fears our computer systems would meltdown when the date hit 1/1/2000.

Volkswagen’s Beetle advertisement plays off the computer problem, “Y2K Bug. Drivers wanted.” “I think a lot of ado has been made about this and maybe a lot of ado about not too much,” said Gail ...

Back in 2000, a computing bug led people to fear a catastrophe at the turn of the year. And one young engineer had to stop a prison outbreak. We’re sorry, the ...

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