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THIS ISSUE: Linux is CrowdStruck Nvidia opens up Google eats cookie words Jellyfin’s firm funding base Swiss roll out open source
As most of the world knows, on 19th July 2024, a faulty update was released for CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor. This caused an out-of-bounds memory read in the Windows sensor client, resulting in millions of devices entering a boot loop.
Although a fix was quickly released, this had to be applied manually on each affected machine, meaning that at the time of writing, almost a week later, the effects of the biggest outage in IT history are still being felt. According to CNN, insurers have calculated that the total damage from this outage to Fortune 500 companies is over $5.4 billion.