What is causing the outage ? ELI5

Also How is Crowdstrike linked to this?

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ZippyJellybean

ELI5 = Explain like I am 5 yo.

SillyPenguin

Crowdstike pushed an sensor update on Friday and windows os is causing bsod because of this update.

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Global Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Software Update

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 syste...

Major banks, media, airports and airlines affected by major IT outage
Payment systems impacted in different parts of the world, including Australia and the UK.
Australia's government calls for emergency meeting
Signific...

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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....

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