Fri. 07/19 – The Big CrowdStrike Outage Explained

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new mini AI models are bring prices down as we hoped. How Netflix completely righted its ship. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Miro.com The Next Wave Podcast Links: Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline (The Verge) Global IT Collapse Puts Cyber Firm CrowdStrike in Spotlight (Bloomberg) Samsung halts Galaxy Buds 3 Pro shipments over quality issues (The Verge) OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet (CNBC) OpenAI's 4o-mini brings big brains on a budget. (Ben's Bites) Netflix Q2 Profits Surge 44% to $2.15 Billion As Streamer Adds 8 Million Subscribers (The Wrap) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: A One-Man Telemundo on TikTok (NYTimes) Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business (Wired) Interesting Raise Story About San Francisco Compute Co. (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam bride home for Friday, July 19th, 2024 I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.8	The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new many AI models
0:15.5	are bringing prices down as we hoped, how Netflix completely righted its ship seemingly,
0:21.5	and of course, the weekend long weekend long race suggestions here's what you
0:24.4	miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	Okay you know how every time there's a hacker security story I'm like, what is my threshold
0:36.8	for talking about it lest I do a breach story every day?
0:40.5	Well I have a new yardstick I guess, because my mom texted me this morning,
0:44.0	guess you have a big morning of news to get to, and on her way out the door, my wife said something
0:48.9	similar.
0:49.9	So I guess if it's big enough to break through to them
0:53.0	before I can even log in to big outage.
0:56.3	Here's what's happening, quoting the verge.
0:58.3	Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing
1:00.9	a blue screen of death, BSOD issue at Boot today,
1:04.7	impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses
1:08.8	worldwide. A faulty update from Cybersecurity Provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers
1:14.8	offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can't start properly. CrowdStrike is widely
1:21.3	used by many businesses worldwide for managing the security of Windows PCs and servers.
1:25.0	Australian banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters first raised the alarm as thousands of machines started to go offline.
1:31.0	The issues spread fast as businesses based in Europe
1:34.6	started their work day. UK broadcaster Sky News was unable to broadcast its
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