Special report: Major computer outages occur worldwide (youtube.com)
Global IT outage grounds planes and sends broadcasters off air (youtube.com)
Major technical outages worldwide: Here's what to know (youtube.com)
CrowdStrike, Microsoft outage explained (youtube.com)
Global IT outage: 'Biggest IT outage the world has ever seen' (youtube.com)
The CrowdStrike Outage: Explained (youtube.com)
Lol Crowdstrike and Microsoft.
Basically people turned on their computers and they wouldn't startup (Windows only, which is most work and 72% of home computers).
‘Not a cyber attack’. Since that is usually a lie, there's no reason to put any weight on the statement either direction. The company said it's a problem with their latest update. They pushed out the update which caused the outage. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted, of course, just Windows, which were caused to reboot and show BSoD or reboot loop. No beta test? Updates on Windows are forced for the past 10 years or whatever.
Governments will eventually understand they need to protect sensitive information (all health, biographical, financial for citizens, all energy, judicial, military [actual military] for state, stored in metal boxes with file tabs like they used to. There's no way to have secure information on computers in offices which are connected to the internet, using workers who understand so little about security and computers, which is almost all people and always will be. Computers have to be offline and connected to their own printer. Any hack should only involve that specific computer or office. It's slower, but actually safe. When you need to transfer information between offices you call, talk to a person there, and have them take the file and fax it or copy it to a connected computer and email it, which email must be set up to automatically delete, because the other end of the line in never trustworthy because they are also incompetant. Connected to incompentence. No accountability for companies and people who cause these problems. Everyone uses the same Cloud or one of a couple Clouds, no diversification.
Snowflake had significant issues recently too.
MSFT was not really down on the news. CRWD was only down about 10 or 15 percent, but was lowest on open and started rising a bit.
#Privacy #CivilRights #HumanRights
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Google ends plan to eliminate cookies (youtube.com)
It talked about doing this in 2020.
My unlogged-in YouTube feed (which has become customized over a couple months) has started flooding with D news and propaganda over the past couple days (today is July 25, Kamala was announced as the D running). MSNBC with ridiculous headlines. I've never clicked an MSNBC video. YouTube is still D, I guess.