Many of my non-technical friends are asking what happened in the global IT outage today.
I like this article from CNN Business. It even (correctly) describes how the Windows kernel can be corrupted in simple language:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/business/recovery-global-crowdstrike-outage
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2024-07-19 18:04:25
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