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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)
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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Windows or Linux. Crowdstrike has in fact broken Linux installs in a fairly similar way before.

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don’t worry, if it had broken in Linux, these same posters would be railing on CrowdStrike directly, but since it broke on Windows, obviously Microsoft is to blame.