Major IT Outage Hits Millions of Windows Users Around the World

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for July 19. A tech outage sweeps around the globe, knocking out operations for banks, media companies and emergency services and causing flights to be grounded. Plus, Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination, calling for unity in his speech—but also reverting to familiar attacks, says the WSJ’s Washington editor Damian Paletta. And, Houthi militants in Yemen claim responsibility for an overnight blast in Tel Aviv. Kate Bullivant hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	A major IT outage hits businesses, banks and airlines around the world.
0:40.0	Plus, Trump calls for unity in his acceptance of the GOP presidential nomination
0:46.3	but shifts to familiar attacks.
0:49.1	The last 60 or 70 minutes of his speech was much more divisive.
0:54.6	In fact, it's the kind of language
0:57.1	that reminds Americans of him
1:00.1	in the kind of way he'd led as president that a lot of Americans didn't agree with.
1:05.0	And Tel Aviv is struck by a drone in an attack claimed by hooty militants.
1:11.0	It's Friday July 19th, I'm Kate Bullevent for the Wall Street Journal filling in for Luke
1:16.4	Vargas and here is the A.M. edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:25.0	A major IT outage has left businesses, financial firms, airlines and emergency services across the world unable to access computing systems
1:36.0	this morning.
1:37.4	An update from Cybersecurity software company Crowdstrike appeared to cause outages for millions of Microsoft Windows
1:45.0	users disrupting businesses ranging from airlines to the London Stock Exchange.
1:51.0	The Federal Aviation Authority has issued ground stop orders for several major airlines, including American, Delta Air and United.
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