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- IT systems across the world are suffering widespread outages.
- Disruptions have hit everything from airports and banks, to retailers and healthcare providers.
- Crowdstrike's CEO blamed a defect in an update for Windows, highlighting the fragility of global IT.
If the world needed a wake-up call on just how fragile its IT systems are, it just got one: a small update gone wrong appears to be the culprit for a total global meltdown.