Y2K+10 bug hits computers around the world.

[lycanox]

We had similar stories about this last year as well.
Perhaps there was some truth in the Y2K bug after all.

The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards.

Germans standing in line to pay for groceries at supermarkets this week could be in for a nasty — and embarrassing — surprise. Many of their bank cards will be rejected at the register, but not because there isn't enough money in their accounts. The problem is with a faulty microchip in the cards that can't recognize the year 2010.

Up to 30 million debit and credit cards — around a quarter of all those in circulation in Germany — have been rendered unreadable by the software bug, causing chaos across the country. The situation harks back to the fears over the so-called millennium bug, which many experts thought would cause computer systems around the world to crash when the year switched over from 1999 to 2000. The difference: the millennium bug turned out to be a false alarm. In Germany, the Year 2010 bug has left millions of people fuming at the ATM.

Customers of German savings banks, which are public institutions run by local councils, have been hit the hardest. More than 20 million of these banks' cards were not working when the glitch cropped up on New Year's Day. About 2.5 million cards issued by private banks such as Commerzbank and Postbank were also affected.

German banks have been working round the clock for the past week to try to fix the problem, which involves reconfiguring tens of thousands of cash machines and payment terminals in German stores and supermarkets, as well as those in countries visited by vacationing Germans, to be able to read the faulty chips. Officials said that replacing all of the cards would simply be too costly and time-consuming.

Bank of Queensland hit by “Y2.01k” glitch

Terminal clocks tick over to January 2016.

A "Y2.01k" glitch has caused Bank of Queensland (BOQ) EFTPOS terminals to malfunction as clocks ticked over to January 1.

While Australians ushered in 2010, BOQ's machines jumped six years ahead and began date stamping January 2016.

Since most of the debit and credit cards that are in current use would have expired by 2016, the machines refused to process transactions.

Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016

Microsoft on Tuesday said it is investigating reports of a glitch causing some Windows Mobile devices to attach the wrong date to incoming SMS messages.

"Microsoft is aware of reports that phone messages received after 1/1/2010 may be dated 2016," the software maker said in a statement. "These reports have not yet resulted in widespread customer inquiries; however, we are working closely with our manufacturing and mobile-operator partners to investigate the cause and correct the issue, as appropriate."

Read more:
The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards (Time)
Bank of Queensland hit by “Y2.01k” glitch (CRN)
Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016 (Cnet News)

[Tired Old Man]

Don't forget about H1N1. With all the cold weather around the world it could come back to bite us in the A**.

Computers and things that could go wrong. Hey Lyx if the Mac operating system is safe and the PC system sucks shouldn't we all be using Mac's ?
Or maybe I should ask if there is a safe PC format ( ? ) we could all be using.