CrowdStrike Accepts 'Most Epic Fail' Award After Global IT Outage

- On Friday morning, a massive outage affected airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services worldwide, linked to CrowdStrike software. - The issue caused Windows machines to display the Blue Screen of Death, with systems falling offline due to a faulty content update. - CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stated the problem isn't a cyberattack and doesn't affect Mac or Linux machines, but fixing it could take days to weeks. - The outage is tied to CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, which combines multiple security solutions into a single hub. - Independent cybersecurity researcher Lukasz Olejnik noted the interconnected nature of software can lead to single points of failure, complicating recovery efforts. Source: The Verge

- CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm, issued a $10 Uber Eats gift card to partners as an apology for a recent outage caused by a faulty update. - The July 19 incident rendered around 8.5 million Windows devices unusable, leading to significant disruptions worldwide, including delays at airports and halted surgeries in hospitals. - Some recipients reported that the gift card was canceled when they tried to redeem it, with Uber flagging it as fraud due to high usage rates. - CrowdStrike's CEO and Chief Security Officer publicly apologized, emphasizing their commitment to transparency and preventing future incidents. - The company continues to investigate the cause of the outage and has been providing regular updates on their progress. Source: Techcrunch

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- Around 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by a recent CrowdStrike outage, according to Microsoft VP David Weston. - This is the first official number released, revealing the global scale of the issue caused by a software update. - The outage affected critical sectors like banks, airlines, and rail networks, despite the relatively low percentage of affected devices. - Weston emphasized the broad economic and societal impacts, noting the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises running critical services. - Microsoft and CrowdStrike are collaborating on a scalable solution to accelerate recovery, involving AWS and Google Cloud. Source: Techcrunch

First of all that event with sam altman was embarrassing. The aftermath was even more embarassing, leading the embarrassment squad was https://twitter.com/C_P_Gurnani/status/1667140990413537284?t=dei0Qm2UKg8SZNb4fHEAmA&s=19 Dude accepted the challenge while paying his engineers 2.5LPA, running a service based company. After this he wants to compete with a proper product. His following tweets are just BS inspirational quotes and generic tweet about ramping investment in R&D. But how are you going to compete with open ai? Nothing has been said. As Indians we have a very big ego, instead of accepting something as feedback why do we always go all out and try to match the other person by words and not action. Then these leaders will go and say action matters a lot more than words. Admittedly, Sam didn't even mean that indian companies are hopeless. It's just that with 10M he said it's hopeless to compete on foundational models of open ai. We don't have a tech leader or an ecosystem where we can say that we can take on open ai. We don't even have a global product that competes with big tech. So why are we full of anger if somebody points out a fact. In comments, can we discuss a solution to the tech ecosystem being shit so we build the foundation on which we can eventually compete on a global level?

Make your nominations everyone. Could we fucked up in terms of business, culture, tech, management or anything.

All laptops in my team are down. Apparently it's a global issue with Microsoft laptops - others also facing the same?