Remember how panicked we all were about the Y2K crisis back in the year 2000? Everyone freaked out because computers only used two digits to represent a year in their internal clocks, so Jan. 1, 2000 ...
The Year 2038 problem is that the program malfunctions due to a UNIX time overflow, but most programs have already solved it. However, game development engineer Adrian found code in Microsoft's ...
A digital time bomb, the Year 2038 problem, threatens global digital stability. Many systems using 32-bit integers to track time will overflow on January 19, 2038, potentially causing widespread ...
“In the year 2038, computers won’t matter any more,” Paul Ford says. “That’s because they’ll be everywhere — small and cheap embedded in everything. And all the little rituals I do to get through my ...
Imagine it is January 19, 2038. You are using your smartphone when you are suddenly logged out of several applications, and the phone system crashes. In the news are reports on bank transaction ...
Another date problem, which results from computing dates into the year 2038 and beyond in 32-bit operating systems. Unix and other C applications represent time as the number of seconds from January 1 ...
BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Buckle in for a wild ride in the next two decades where the role of security professionals will rise in dramatic importance, Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure chief research officer ...
The recommendation by Germany’s coal commission that the country end its use of the fossil fuel in power stations by 2038 could breach a Paris Agreement-compatible pathway by more than a billion ...
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 ...