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After the largest PC outage in history due to buggy software updates, CrowdStrike now offers affected partners a $10 UberEats gift card

CrowdStrike seeks to repair its reputation, one $10 UberEats gift card at a time.

Tom’s Hardware

CrowdStrike sends out $10 Uber Eats codes as an apology, and some of them show an error message

After causing one of the largest Internet outages in history, CrowdStrike sent out $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology. Unfortunately, some of the cards do not work.

Windows Central

CrowdStrike issues apology for global IT outage in the form of $10 Uber Eats gift cards — which then don’t work

Just remember that if you cause a global IT outage with a bad update, like CrowdStrike, the solution is fast food.

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CrowdStrike is offering a $10 UberEats gift card as an apology for the recent outage

CrowdStrike is sending $10 UberEats giftcards as an apology to the worldwide BSOD.

TechRadar

CrowdStrike offers takeaway vouchers as apology after IT outage crisis... but they don't work

After causing a global IT crisis, CrowdStrike’s apology gesture has also gone off the rails

Evening Standard

Global IT Outage Hit 1 In 4 Fortune 500 Companies, Losses Pegged At $5.4 Billion

The average loss per affected company was approximately $43.6 million, with the healthcare sector suffering the most.

International Business Times

Crowdstrike Blames Bug For Global Tech Outage

CrowdStrike's tech outage due to bug in update prompts measures to prevent future incidents and regulatory scrutiny.

Top News

CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

The Guardian - US

CrowdStrike: the massive companies you’ve never heard of with a hidden grip on our lives

The world is saturated by services and products provided by companies that have a “secret grip” on the way we live. In 1951, the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy described a typical day “of the average guy” from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. The…

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A former Microsoft Software Engineer explains CrowdStrike's digital pandemic that left over 8.5 million Windows devices with annoying BSoD errors

Dave Plummer (aka Dave's Garage), a former Microsoft software engineer, recently shared a YouTube video explaining the digital pandemic caused by CrowdStrike.

Windows Central

It looks as if the best way of avoiding the CrowdStrike drama was to run Windows 3.1 all along

As its competitor airlines were grounded thanks to the CrowdStrike drama, Southwest carried on thanks to a now ancient version of Windows.

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 gets a Crowdstrike-Microsoft situation of its own as Ministry of Truth tells service technicians to manually reboot affected computers 15 times "to bring systems back online"

Don't worry, no holidays have been canceled

The Independent UK

Crowdstrike blames update for letting bad data slip through causing global tech outage

Crowdstrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers

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Delta faces federal investigation following massive CrowdStrike outage

Delta has scrapped hundreds of flights for the fifth straight day after the CrowdStrike outage

TechRadar

CrowdStrike reveals what went wrong — and it's pretty much what we expected

CrowdStrike thinks it knows what caused the blue screen of death on millions of Windows devices.

The Independent UK

Airlines are still recovering from the global tech outage. What are your rights if you’ve been stranded?

Delta Air Lines is still seeing major delays and cancellations following the faulty Crowdstrike update

The Independent UK

Delta Air Lines under investigation as flight cancellations continue days after CrowdStrike outage

Experts said it could take airlines weeks to recover from the massive cybersecurity error

Barchart

Options Traders Don’t Like CyberArk (CYBR) But It Could Be a Relative Discount

While the cybersecurity industry incurred a major blow, the criticality of the ecosystem may bode well for CYBR stock.

The Guardian - UK

Global IT failure has left me fearing the word ‘upgrade’

Brief letters: CrowdStrike outage | Computer illiterates | Fighting water companies | Long-lived historian | Rubber band saves sole

Fortune

CrowdStrike CSO blasts own failure as stock plummets: ‘The confidence we built in drips over the years was lost in buckets within hours, and it was a gut punch’

One broker tried to rush out a note recommending investors buy the dip, only to find out his bank's computers were CrowdStriked too.

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