US software 'blew up Russian gas pipeline'
Software supplied to run a Russian pipeline was deliberately planned to go haywire, causing the biggest non-nuclear explosion the world had ever seen, says a book published today
Software supplied to run a Russian pipeline was deliberately planned to go haywire, causing the biggest non-nuclear explosion the world had ever seen, says a book published today
President Boris Yeltsin, in a ground-breaking, exclusive Internet chat with MSNBC on the Internet, became the first and only cyber president in Russian history Tuesday, fielding questions from a globally diverse audience for over 30 minutes. 'Our society is not prepared, not for my daughter or any other woman.
Remember the good old days when ARPANET computers were as big as refrigerators and you could fit the Net on a sheet of paper?
After a weekend of little more than minor glitches, the world gears up to go back to work. Experts expect snafus, but no disasters.
Let's smash some atoms!The Large Hadron Collider is back on track for trial collisions this week, after a glitch with the cooling system, Times Online reports.
First published: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:48:38 GMT
The year 2000 bug itself is just part of the millennial computer problem. Even more costly will be the preparations, and the hype.
First published: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 11:44:56 GMT
IBM Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr. delivered the following remarks during the keynote address for CeBIT 98 last night.
So the world didn't end. But now that the dust has settled, what exactly did happen at the turn of the millennium?