Technology

CrowdStrike Outage To Cost US Fortune 500 Companies $5.4bn

The global technology outage sparked by CloudStrike’s faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn, insurers estimated, as the cybersecurity firm vowed to make changes to prevent it from happening again, The Guardian reported. The projected financial losses exclude…

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Technology

CrowdStrike Explains What Happened

CrowdStrike put up a blog post that gives some information about what happened recently. Here is part of that blog post: On July 19, 2024, at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor configuration update to…

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JenThorpe
Technology

Major Windows BSOD Hits Banks, Airlines, And TV Broadcasters

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide, The Verge reported. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CloudStrike is knocking affected…

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JenThorpe
Technology

AI-Created Images Lose U.S. Copyrights In Test For New Technology

Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a letter seen by Reuters. “Zarya of the Dawn” author Kris Kashtanova is entitled…

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JenThorpe
smartphone, Technology

Xiaomi Opens Store in Birmingham, UK

It might be the season to be jolly but it also seems to be the season for new stores. Following on from Nothing’s new bricks’n’mortar shop in London last weekend, Xiaomi are opening a new place in Birmingham, England. Xiaomi’s…

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