Systems suffer new year hangover

Martin Courtney
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Experts blame poor coding for a wave of system failures at the dawn of the new decade

The 2010 bug affected everything from ATMs to smartphones Software systems across the world went haywire on 1 January because they were not programmed to handle the year 2010. Many of the wor...

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