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Ricky Freelove

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4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Filling in for Mike this week is David Bull, and today he is joined by James Ball and Laurie Laird to discuss the global IT outage and Biden backing out of the election campaign.

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0:00.0

The home of common sense. This is talk. Good morning. This is morning glory. The time 740 already on Monday, July the 22nd. I'm David Bull. Thank you very much indeed for your company.

0:12.9

Now let's talk more, shall we, about what is going on in terms of this IT chaos. I was on air when this happened with the crowd strike development. We saw

0:21.7

the blue screen of death across the world. It seemed to start in Australia, then it spread to

0:26.8

India and so on. And then the United States, we saw all of those planes being grounded,

0:30.6

total grounding of American Airlines when that happened. Now, it seems that despite the fix fix being offered and there seems to be a lot of

0:40.3

rollout of fixes are happening across the world. Dozens more holiday flights have now been

0:45.1

cancelled across the UK. We're now in a third day of travel chaos for airline passengers. This was

0:50.4

yesterday but it's still rolling on following this botched software updates.

0:54.9

Now, we know that there were knock-on delays throughout the weekend.

0:58.6

EasyJet cancelled something like 24 flights at Gatwick, British Airways cancelling flights as well.

1:04.2

Now, the good news is that Microsoft has released a recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by the glitch.

1:10.6

8.5 million devices across the

1:13.6

world were affected. Now, this tool is designed to aid in quickly recovering impacted

1:18.6

machines via a bootable USB device. Now, in Australia, Claire O'Neill, she said this yesterday that the federal government has been told by Crown Strike.

1:30.6

They're close to rolling out an automatic fix, which will enable all systems to get online.

1:35.5

There's a lot of talk as well about turning it off, rebooting it, and sometimes you have to do it more than once.

1:40.2

Apparently, some people are doing it up to 12 times.

1:42.8

Well, joining me now as James Ball, who is a tech journalist. Good morning, James. Good morning. And the chaos continues.

1:50.0

It does. It turns out that when you accidentally sort of press a button and brick 8 million computers, the knock on effect really, really do knock on. They really do. I mean, we've seen thousands of

2:01.7

flight delays cancellations. It's gone across multiple sectors, hasn't it? Hospitals, we've heard

2:06.7

from GPs as well. I was talking to Dr. René over the weekend, and she was saying they had to

2:11.2

resort to writing on Lord George notes, which are these tiny A5 little notes. And then, of course,

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