Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The world went pretty numb when the year 2000 was closing in. It was not merely the change in all four digits, but it also beckoned major problems for the software and programs developed during the ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — A computer timing issue that’s set to happen in January of 2038 has cybersecurity experts warning that parts of the world’s infrastructure could face disruptions if outdated systems aren’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Steam, a platform for download sales and streaming play of PC games, a report that the displayed text suddenly became a random font became a hot topic. According to the user who reported it, the `` ...