Worldwide IT Outage (5 Viewers)
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We're still here!
We'll_live_and_die
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We weren't allowed on this morning but can log on now. Madness how vulnerable society is.
We'll_live_and_die
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Someone's getting fired. Might be a good time to buy Microsoft and Crowdstrike shares.
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When they first talked about Crowdstrike on the news, I thought it was some kind of terror group!
RegTheDonk
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Technology huh, it's everywhere to make our lives easier and we're unfortunately too dependent on it now.
As a old trekkie ....
As a old trekkie ....
shmmeee
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My guess: ChatGPT getting just good enough to copy and paste without checking for junior devs.
Ian1779
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School holidays, getaways if they're going,who liable for the compensation of the whole thing?
Nick
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Guessing a lot of people will be looking towards crowdstrike after today.
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What is crowdstrike?
A terrorist organisation posing as a whatever?
Nick
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It's a security software, anti virus if you like.
It's that that caused all of the issues as they pushed out a bad update to everybody that caused servers and computers to blue screen.
The fix is manual as well so it needs somebody to physically fix each to get them back online. (Not just turn off and on).
SkyBlueCharlie9
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Terrible disruption, but we all know there will be some big companies out there using this as an excuse for various delays and putting up costs!
Saddlebrains
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I work in Cyber security
I've had a fun day
I've had a fun day
SeaSeeEffCee
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Did you try turning it on and off again?
Nick
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It's an easy fix, just tedious if there's loads to fix
chiefdave
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chiefdave
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Microsoft Recommends Rebooting Your Computer 15 Times as Blue Screen of Death Strikes Worldwide
Off and On Again As the world is still reeling from a massive IT outage triggered by a faulty antivirus software update that forced Windows machines to crash, Microsoft is trying to pick up the pieces. The company is taking "mitigation action" to soften the blow. Worse yet, the bug, which is...
SeaSeeEffCee
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Any jobs going at your place @Saddlebrains?
Microsoft Recommends Rebooting Your Computer 15 Times as Blue Screen of Death Strikes Worldwide
Off and On Again As the world is still reeling from a massive IT outage triggered by a faulty antivirus software update that forced Windows machines to crash, Microsoft is trying to pick up the pieces. The company is taking "mitigation action" to soften the blow. Worse yet, the bug, which is...uk.news.yahoo.com
A terrorist really in anything other than word, code however!
Funny how we laud companies, make them billion pound business's but hold such power over us,ah it's alright it was just a sub contact company, meanwhile the leading company with the actual contract with everyone is involved in a spat with governments around the globe who don't bend to their will, it's okay though as it's all so convenient isn't it?
Doomsday!!!
www.theguardian.com
‘Never summon a power you can’t control’: Yuval Noah Harari on how AI could threaten democracy and divide the world
Forget Hollywood depictions of gun-toting robots running wild in the streets – the reality of artificial intelligence is far more dangerous, warns the historian and author in an exclusive extract from his new book
shmmeee
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Doomsday!!!
‘Never summon a power you can’t control’: Yuval Noah Harari on how AI could threaten democracy and divide the world
Forget Hollywood depictions of gun-toting robots running wild in the streets – the reality of artificial intelligence is far more dangerous, warns the historian and author in an exclusive extract from his new book
There is no evidence we are any closer to AI than we were ten years ago. This is all fiction writing at this point.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Trouble is a great deal of sci fi does end up becoming science fact.
shmmeee
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We might as well be having public debates about the political implications uploading our brains to the cloud or time travel.
When's it happening then 50 yrs a100, well be automatons by then!