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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
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.
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.
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
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
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
CrowdStrike shares close down 11.1% after a software update caused a major outage; its shares had previously risen nearly 118% in the last 12 months
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
The UK and US announce the arrest of a 17-year-old boy from Walsall, UK, suspected of being connected to the ransomware attack against MGM Resorts in 2023  —  On Friday U.K. police announced, in a joint operation with the country's National Crime Agency (NCA) and the U.S. FBI …
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:
A look at Messari co-founder Ryan Selkis' tweets this week calling for war and sending immigrants back, prompting Messari's leadership to tell him to cool it
New York Times:
Michael Moritz urges Biden to drop out, joining other tech leaders such as Reed Hastings and the Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus in calling for Biden to step aside  —  Mr. Moritz became one of the party's top contributors to go public with his fears about the president's candidacy, saying that Mr. Biden had a choice: “vanity or virtue.”
Reuters:
Nigeria fines Meta $220M after investigations showed data sharing on Facebook and WhatsApp violated local consumer, data protection, and privacy laws  —  Nigeria has fined Meta Platforms (META.O) $220 million after investigations showed data-sharing on its Facebook and WhatsApp platforms …
Damien Wilde / 9to5Google:
Xiaomi unveils the Mix Fold 4, starting at ~$1,237, and the Mix Flip, its first flip foldable, with a 4.01" cover display, starting at ~$825, available in China  —  Xiaomi has officially launched two brand new foldables, including the firm's first ever flip device.
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 …
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
OpenAI's GPT-4o mini is its first model to use a safety technique called “instruction hierarchy” to prevent misuse and unauthorized instructions  —  Have you seen the memes online where someone tells a bot to “ignore all previous instructions” and proceeds to break it in the funniest ways possible?
Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon

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