A technical issue, reportedly related to a US-based cybersecurity firm named CrowdStrike, caused computers running Microsoft software across Australia and abroad to glitch on Friday.The global outage impacted a raft of Australian companies and government agencies, causing many computers to attempt to restart and display a blue-screen error message.

Seems like they pushed out a buggy update and now tons of computers running this software are fucked. Certain airports and banks (most notably) are struggling to operate due to this. We are currently witnessing the consequences of a world that is increasingly more reliant on technology. Download survival pdf's and withdraw cash while you can.

forgot sauce - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/what-is-crowdstrike-outage-explained/104120260

It's not really a big happening it'll get fixed pretty soon

What will happen when a Carrington event hits again?

tfw autoupdate privelege-withholding proprietary software commands you die

Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. 911 down for our state too. Nowhere for people to be diverted to because the other nearby hospitals are down. — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002977

Windows kills, both literally and figuratively