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Happy Monday listeners.

Let's start the day off right by catching up on some of the science news you may have missed last week.

For Scientific American science quickly, this is Rachel Saltman.

This past Friday a global outage hit Microsoft Windows devices and caused quite a curfuffle. Flights all over the world were grounded as several major US airlines as well as a few international

carriers had problems with their computer systems. In several states 911

services were down on Friday morning and some foreign banks reported outages as did many medical facilities around the world.

As of the time of this recording, the culprit seems to be a faulty software update pushed by

the Cybersecurity Company crowd strike. While it's obviously a relief

that there doesn't seem to be anything nefarious

behind this huge disruption,

it's unclear how long it's gonna take

all of the affected services to get back up and running.

A reminder, we make this episode on Friday, so we'll definitely

link to more up-to-date information in our show notes as it becomes available.

Last week saw the premiere of the new movie Twister.

Now I know that's not exactly science news but it is a good excuse to talk about how

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