CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made [Thu Jul 25 2024]

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CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history

 

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AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch after chips fall short of quality controls

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Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech

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Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it

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Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir

US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput'

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Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case

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'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea

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The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday

'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling'

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Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines

Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors

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Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen

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Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos

With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious

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School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021

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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

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CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history

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Security biz KnowBe4 hired fake North Korean techie, who got straight to work ... on evil

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Musk deflects sluggish Tesla car sales with Optimus optimism

Claims 'everyone on Earth is going to want one'

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CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence

China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale

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VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months

A nice surprise, but some other vAdmins have an August 1 deadline to sort out subscriptions

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Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it

As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit

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Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud

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Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock

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Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor

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