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Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Friday, July 19th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

A single update from Cybersecurity Software Maker Crowd Strike is causing massive outages for millions of users of Microsoft

Windows devices.

The outage swept the globe, touching almost every industry, including operations at banks, airlines, and emergency services.

Many affected machines were unable to restart, instead showing a blue error screen.

In a post on X, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said that the issue had

been identified and a fix had been deployed. He added the outage was not a security

incident or cyber attack.

In a status update seen by the W.S.J.

The company told customers its engineers had undone a software change that caused the problem.

But clients would need to use a workaround to download a

fix to affected devices. While U.S. financial markets were largely operating as

normal today, stocks were impacted by the outage.

The NASDAQ fell nearly 1%.

Crowd strike tumbled close to 11%,

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