On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent by a little-known company called CrowdStrike - and in this emergency Better Offline dispatch, Ed Zitron walks you through exactly what happened, why it's so bad, and why both CrowdStrike and Microsoft executives should face criminal prosecution for such a catastrophic managerial failure. These are the dark consequences of the growth-at-all-costs movement.
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07/22/24 • 30 min
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Better Offline - CrowdStruck
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A media Hello one, Welcome to a very special emergency episode of Better Offline. I'm at Zeitron, I'm your host, and I'm recording this from inside a closet in a hotel in San Francisco. You're very important to me. On Friday afternoon, I sat at my desk and just started writing about any clear aim or objective other than a desire to wrap my head around probably the most cataclystic technological meltdown that I've seen in my career, And of course
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