*The Y2K problem is now seen as a bit of a joke — but only a fool would be complacent about the vulnerability of IT systems.*

The article describes some of the many system faults that occurred at the start of the year 2000 (the last year of the second millennium AD). These were the fraction that were overlooked by the world-wide effort to find and correct all such problems.

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*E-cigarettes are still safer than smoking, scientists find.*

*Greek activists warn of surge in police brutality and rights violations.*

This was to be expected from a right-wing government.

"Presentism": a term for trying to judge people in the past by the moral standards of today.