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🗓️ 22 July 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Equity. |
0:02.0 | Tech Crunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups. |
0:15.2 | Today is July 22nd, 2024 and I'm Rebecca Belon, a senior reporter here at Tech Crunch. |
0:20.4 | This is our Monday show where we take a look at the weekend and get you |
0:23.9 | ready for the week ahead and what a weekend it's been. On today's show we have |
0:27.9 | what the hell happened with Crowd strike, VP Kamala Harris's stance on Tech, Invidious Chinese Chips and Yandex's comeback story. |
0:36.0 | Let's get started. |
0:37.0 | First up, we've got Crowd Strikes Update fail. On Friday morning, we all woke up to absolute chaos |
0:45.0 | with much of the windows using world being greeted with a blue screen of death. |
0:49.0 | And no, it wasn't a cyber attack, apparently. |
0:52.0 | Crowd Strike, a Cloud Security giant, did this to itself. The |
0:55.4 | outage ended up grounding planes, disrupting banks, hospitals, trains, media outlets, and |
0:59.9 | businesses all around the world. CEO George Kurt said, again, it wasn't caused by a cyber attack, |
1:05.6 | despite what many people have been saying on social media. |
1:08.3 | Rather, it was a defect in a software update |
1:10.8 | for its flagship security product, the Falcon sensor. |
1:14.2 | So this defect caused any Windows computers with Falcon install to crash without fully |
1:18.8 | loading. |
1:19.8 | Some critics have chastised Crowd Strike for rolling out this update everywhere all at once |
1:24.4 | rather than staged and controlled. |
1:26.0 | The CEO said though that actually they did roll it out in a staged way, which is maybe why |
1:30.2 | Microsoft said only 8.5 Windows devices were affected out of an estimated 1.5 billion but 8.5 |
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