You are no doubt aware that the world suffered a fairly significant IT outage at the end of last week, affecting everything from TV broadcasts to supermarkets and airports. Turns out it was because of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike releasing a thoroughly bung update to Windows machines.

In this ep, we talk about the incident, how susceptible the world is to single points of IT failure, and other assorted and sundry topics.

<p>You are no doubt aware that the world suffered <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue">a fairly significant IT outage</a> at the end of last week, affecting everything from TV broadcasts to supermarkets and airports. Turns out it was because of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike releasing a thoroughly bung update to Windows machines.</p>
<p>In this ep, we talk about the incident, how susceptible the world is to single points of IT failure, and other assorted and sundry topics.</p>

The number one podcast about tech business and culture, from James "JR" Hennessy and Raph Dixon.

Advertisement