A "defect" found in Crowdstrike's Windows software has caused much of the world's computers to crash, including airports, train stations, television shows and broadcasts, emergency 911 lines, entire datacenters — you name it.

Not a cyberattack, says Crowdstrike, but this massive outage has certainly been felt globally and shows Crowdstrike's massive reach — especially as things go wrong.

techcrunch.com/2024/07/19/bank

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@zackwhittaker Hmmm. I wonder how many people are regretting cloud-sourcing their control systems about now....

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