CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee [Wed Jul 24 2024]

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CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

Boss faces grilling before Congress over disastrous software snafu

 
 

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Philippines wipes out its legit online gambling industry to take down scammers

President apologizes in advance for job losses

Kamala Harris has a long history with Silicon Valley that could help – or hurt

The presumptive Democratic nominee has gone back and forth with Big Tech

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Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February

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AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores

But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs?

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Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia

Government doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report

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Intel to deliver fix for Raptor Lake CPUs made 'unstable' by voltage snafu

Put those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade!

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Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough

Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore

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How did a CrowdStrike config file crash millions of Windows computers? We take a closer look at the code

Maybe next time some staged rollouts? A bit of QA too?

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Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?

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Cybercrooks spell trouble with typosquatting domains amid CrowdStrike crisis

Latest trend follows various malware campaigns that began just hours after IT calamity

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Alphabet's reported $23B bet on Wiz fizzles out

Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR

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New Aberdeen report spotlights the rising capabilities of midmarket companies

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Meta claims ‘world’s largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut

Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of

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FTC sticks a probe into 'surveillance pricing' Big Biz uses to gouge us all

Ever had to shop in incognito mode to avoid paying more? This one's for you

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Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

But not necessarily health

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Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure

Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs

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CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to US Homeland Security committee

Boss faces grilling before Congress over disastrous software snafu

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Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces

Strictly for performance fiends with ultra-modern kit who want a distro to match

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SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support

For now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again)

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How to maintain code for a century: Just add Rust

Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies

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Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon

Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival

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FrostyGoop malware shut off heat to 600 Ukraine apartment buildings

First nasty to exploit Modbus to screw with operational tech devices

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Offbeat

ESA's meteorite bricks hit Lego stores, but don't get your wallet out just yet

In space, no one can hear you scream when you step on one

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