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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware — Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …
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| George Kurtz / @george_kurtz: |
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with its impacted customers — CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We
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| New York Times: |
Experts say CrowdStrike's fix requires deleting a specific file and that cannot be automated at scale, meaning outages could persist for longer than expected — There have been two issues affecting Microsoft systems in quick succession, adding to the confusion over a global outage.
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| Bloomberg: |
CrowdStrike and other endpoint security tools require access to the core of OSes, giving them the ability to disrupt the very systems they're trying to protect — - Glitch caused global fallout after crashing Microsoft systems — CrowdStrike is a top provider of corporate protection software
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The outage appears to have been caused by CrowdStrike pushing a faulty update to its Falcon software that causes Windows machines to get stuck in a boot loop — On Friday morning, some of the biggest airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services came to a standstill as a massive outage rippled across the globe.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A workaround to fix the BSOD caused by CrowdStrike's faulty update involves booting Windows in Safe Mode and deleting the security firm's “C-00000291*.sys” file — IT admins around the world are scrambling to fix a major issue with Windows computers today, after a faulty update …
More: Ars Technica, Security Affairs, and The Stack
X: @vxunderground, @craiu, @craiu, @craiu, @0xtib3rius, @sanjeevsanyal, @blenster, and @vadimyuryev. Forums: Hacker News
| Brady Dale / Axios: |
Messari CEO Ryan Selkis says he's stepping down after a series of controversial political X posts, and Chief Revenue Officer Eric Turner will become interim CEO — - Selkis was there the moment that Trump first expressed support for the crypto world publicly, at an event the GOP nominee … | Nick Baker / CoinDesk: |
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft says it fixed an Azure configuration issue behind a Microsoft 365 outage, and “all previously impacted Microsoft 365 apps and services have recovered” — Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble — UPDATED Microsoft's 365 subscription services … | Bloomberg: |
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, but declines to endorse either Trump or Biden — Meta CEO doesn't endorse Trump or Biden for president — Mark Zuckerberg said that former President Donald Trump's immediate reaction …
More: The Verge, The Information, The Guardian, Business Insider, Fox Business, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Forbes, and News18
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cellebrite gave the FBI unreleased tech to access the Trump shooter's phone, a “newer Samsung model”, after the FBI's first attempt to crack it failed — - Initial attempt to access newer Samsung model didn't work — Cellebrite sent FBI technical support, unreleased software| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Samsung says it has “temporarily” stopped deliveries of Galaxy Buds 3 Pro to retailers after some early owners reported quality control issues with the ear tips — The suspension comes after some early buyers encountered quality control issues. — • — TL;DR
More: ZDNet, Android Police, 9to5Google, Financial Express, The Verge, Android Headlines, Patently Apple, SamMobile, T3, Droid Life, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, and PhoneArena. Forums: r/samsung
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A study of 14K web domains in the C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma AI training datasets: 5% of all the data, and 25% of the highest-quality data, has been restricted — New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.
X: @kevinroose
| Reuters: |
Netflix added 8.05M subscribers in Q2, vs. 5M est., as it benefited from its crackdown on password sharing and popular titles like Bridgerton and Baby Reindeer — Netflix (NFLX.O) said on Thursday it added more than 8 million subscribers in its second quarter as the streaming service benefited … | Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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