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Read moreWhat is CrowdStrike, and what happened?
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Friday morning, some of the biggest airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services came to a standstill as a massive outage rippled across the globe. The outage, which has brought the Blue Screen of Death upon legions of Windows machines
Read moreHere’s how IT admins are fixing the Windows Blue Screen of Death chaos
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Read moreMajor IT outage takes out banks, airlines and businesses across the world
Businesses worldwide on Friday are reporting IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already become one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years. The outage — linked to an update from security firm CrowdStrike — has affected companies across various
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