A global outage of the security software CrowdStrike is effecting everything from international flights to global banks to average businesses around the world Friday morning. Systems are slowly returning to normal, but the effects of the outage will reverberate for the rest of the day, especially for the travelers stranded in airports by thousands of … Read more
Right now, much of the world has ground to a halt thanks to a botched update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. Banks, hospitals, 911 call centers — our own Daniel Golson is even stranded in Schiphol Airport as we speak. Yet, judging by CrowdStrike’s response, the folks worst hit by the outage might be the IT … Read more
Nonemergency surgeries, procedures and medical visits were canceled or suspended at multiple hospitals across the country Friday amid a global software outage that has kept health care workers from accessing medical records, prescriptions, scheduling, and other electronic tools and documents. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the state’s largest, said it has canceled “all previously scheduled … Read more
CrowdStrike makes software to help firms manage their security in IT environments. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike saw its shares plunge Friday, after an update led to a major outage, impacting businesses across the world. Shares of the company, which makes software to help firms manage their security in IT … Read more
Air travel in the U.S. is a busy business, one that sees 45,000 flights serving 2.9 million each day, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Our frenzied skies got a little calmer early Friday morning however, as the CrowdStrike software outage impacted United, Delta and American Airlines—the three largest airlines in the U.S. Airlines Have … Read more
An Internet user checks ChatGPT on his mobile phone, Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, April 26, 2023. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images LONDON — Britain is set to introduce its first-ever law for artificial intelligence — but Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new Labour government faces a delicate balancing act of forming rules that … Read more
Porsche is filling out its third-generation Panamera lineup with new mid-range GTS and top-dog Turbo S E-Hybrid variants. While neither are exactly surprising in terms of what they deliver, the Turbo S in particular is not only the fastest and most powerful Panamera yet, but it’s the second most powerful combustion-engine road car that Porsche … Read more
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Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” became the first rap song to ever be transmitted into deep space last week when NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) beamed the Grammy Award-winning artist’s lyrics 158 million miles away to the planet Venus. Missy Misdemeanor’s iconic first single joins The Beatles’ “Across The Universe” as the only … Read more
President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are expected to meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco in November. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Global chip stocks fell sharply, with ASML, Nvidia and TSMC posting declines amid reports of tighter export restrictions from the U.S. … Read more
