Japan's new Y2K: Chips with Everything podcast
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Almost two decades after the millennium bug failed to bite, Jordan Erica Webber looks at the potential consequences for big tech of the end of another era: Emperor Akihito's reign in Japan
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of what some joked was one of the biggest anticlimaxes to have struck the globe: Y2K. But cybersecurity experts still want us to remember the lessons of the "millennium bug", and be mindful of similar events that could impact us in future.
Emperor Akihito of Japan is expected to abdicate the throne on 30 April this year and big tech has warned the end of this era could have a similar effect to what it was feared the dawn of the millennium would have.
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