While the world is busy debating the ethical consequences of artificial intelligence and marvelling at quantum breakthroughs, an old-school technical glitch — the Year 2038 problem — lurks quietly in ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Two events pose a threat to Americans’ ability to connect to the internet. Hackers have always posed a threat through DNS attacks, or denial of services. Another threat is ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...

Please leave others some toilet paper: At 03:14:08 UTC on January 19, 2038, time will stop. Yes, it's an overly dramatic statement, but it's not entirely untrue, as computer systems are concerned. At ...

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...