Risky Bulletin Newsletter
March 24, 2025
Risky Bulletin: The looming epochalypse
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I'll start this newsletter edition by saying from the get-go that today's topic—the Year 2038 problem—isn't new at all.
It has a Wikipedia page dating back to 2005, a 2009 XKCD comic, and was at the center of a Guardian article back in 2014.
It was a tweet from security researcher Pedro Umbelino last week that reminded me of this problem and how close to its deadline we have gotten—because, yes, everyone gets old!