The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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CrowdStrike Says Global IT Outage Impacting Windows PCs, But Mac and Linux Hosts Not Affected
A widespread system failure is currently affecting numerous Windows devices globally, causing critical boot failures across various industries, including banks, rail networks, airlines, retailers, broadcasters, healthcare, and many more sectors.
The workaround to break the infinite boot cycle on affected Windows machines involves manually booting into safe mode, navigating to the CrowdStrike directory, and deleting the system file that caused the problem.
They can’t roll out a fix remotely and the place I work has over 10k employees spread across timezones all over the world. What a headache.
Edit: at least there is a fix. I can’t imagine the size of the lawsuits if they actually bricked all those PCs. The disruption to business would be horrendous.
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This is just AI training for the eventual war against humans.
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Well now I’m conflicted:
several rail networks over the world have ground to a halt.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501525799/worldwide-windows-outage-hits-trains-planes-and-banks/
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The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!
The office watches you shave in the morning?
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Lol, this is their website:
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Well if all servers are down, can’t get your data stolen, right?
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La misère des riches
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It was a CRS update patch that caused this.
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Let it all burn to the ground
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Let it all burn to the ground
So you are insurrecting with Trump?
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Just passed in front of my bank and there are employees outside telling people that only the ATM machines are working right now.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Let it all burn to the ground
So you are insurrecting with Trump?
If it burns down social media. Trump won’t let that happen. He needs to piper his sheep
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It’s pretty staggering in retrospect that all these big companies with all this critical infrastructure just lets some third party yahoos push (self-evidentally) untested code directly to their devices without so much as testing the impact themselves first.
There’s stories over on Hacker News about Crowdstrike being responsible for the same thing in March of this year of except that time was Debian servers affected, only brought down a handful of obscure services, so didn’t it get any press.
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luckily for crowdstrike, with all the outages, its harder to short their stock … 9d chess.
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Maybe don’t use Microsoft for critical infrastructure? The world has gone crazy.
Jurassic Park used Unix. And everyone died.
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@Stu said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Jurassic Park used Unix. And everyone died.
Let’s also not forget how much work Microsoft has done with Linux over the past decade. If i’m not mistaken they’re in the top 5 commiters to the Linux kernel. I may be recalling the article wrong but under Balmer’s leadership, Microsoft was trying to kill Linux. Under Nadella though, they shifted to adoption and cooperation.
A decision that has been good for everyone fwiw.
It's a Unix system
