Welcome to the Tech Mem right home for Monday, July 22nd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Wait, did any news happen this weekend? IT, people don't know about it because they're still

digging out from the crowd strike thing but why is everybody pointing fingers at

Microsoft? Samsung jumps on the Google messages bandwagon Japan wants AI startups and

what do you do when you need 22,000 football player avatars real quick?

AI of course, here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well aside from other news this weekend, everything this weekend was about the ongoing

outage after that crowd strike update. Just a small sampling of the chaos, Delta had to cancel 4,500 flights, 1,000 flights canceled on Sunday alone.

We now have a fuller picture of what actually happened.

CrowdStrike says a sensor configuration update to Windows Systems triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and blue screens of death on impacted systems.

Quoting the register.

Crowd strike on Sunday teased a rapid recovery tool

for the mess it made.

Together with customers, we tested a new technique

to accelerate impacted system remediation.

The security vendor stated on LinkedIn adding quote

we're in the process of operationalizing and opt in to this technique. We're

making progress by the minute end That progress will likely be of great interest,

as Microsoft Vep for Enterprise and OS Security David Weston on Saturday

estimated that 8.5 million Windows machines had been laid low by the problem.

That's less than 1% of all Windows devices in operation, though a lot of the ones affected obviously

were in critical environments.

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