Global Outage Affecting Online Systems Worldwide

 

All day today, there's been a global tech outage. Across the US and much of the planet, it's affected many places from airports, to hospitals, to 911 and other emergency services, and more. People have been stranded at airports waiting for their planes. Procedures for patients in hospitals are delayed as their records are inaccessible. Court sessions are delayed due to computers being down. 

 

About the only bright spot was the doughnut chain Krispy Kreme offering free donuts to people. 

 

The source was traced to a software update for Cloudstrike. In a Twitter post, it's CEO explained the problem was, “a defect found in a single content update of its software on Microsoft Windows operating systems."

 

To read more, check here and here on CNN and here on AP.

 

Bixyl Shuftan