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What Can We Learn From the Crowdstrike Calamity?

Blank digital billboards in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, July 19, 2024. In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike crashed countless computer systems globally. — Blank digital billboards in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, July 19, 2024. In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike crashed countless computer systems globally.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

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