In an age where businesses run on code and secrets travel across fiber optics, the idea that a "quantum crisis" could ...

The bug threatened a cascade of potential ... Dozens of communities across the U.S. formed Y2K preparedness groups to stave off unnecessary panic. Kathy Garcia, an organizer with the Y2K Community ...

Reflecting on Y2K, a quarter-century on ... "If you want to have a computer bug that would spread widespread panic, have it coincide with a change from 1999 to 2000 where people were already ...

Just like the Y2K bug had the world on edge at the turn of the millennium, Windows users on Friday experienced a similar sense of panic. Their screens flashed the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

SUMMERS: We're talking about the Y2K bug, the computer problem that ... That work is being done. Please do not panic. SUMMERS: Can you talk a little bit about that societal response and the ...

despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened.… Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been ...

This New Year's marks the 25th anniversary of Y2K, the popularized term referring to a widespread computer programming bug feared to wreak havoc when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.