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I love having New Zealand delicacies like custard squares when I visit my homeland.
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  • I grew up eating custard squares and marmite on toast, which can be difficult to find in the US.
  • Feijoas and hokey-pokey ice cream are very popular in New Zealand.

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  • "House of the Dragon" season two takes "Game of Thrones" fans back to Westeros. 
  • The show has filmed across Europe on beaches and medieval towns open to the public. 
  • From King's Landing to Blackwater Bay, here's some of the filming locations that fans can visit.

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Editor's note: Check out our oft-updated live blog for all new developments about the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage.

Windows PCs around the entire planet crashed this morning because of a CrowdStrike update glitch. You may have heard about it.

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Much of the world woke up Friday discovering much of the internet wasn't working due to an outage caused by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. And, unfortunately, it doesn't appear like the problems will be totally fixed for quite some time.

Now, if it's just your personal Windows computer that's affected, there appears to be a workaround. The CrowdStrike issue caused many Windows computers to



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The FBI used an unreleased tool from the Israeli mobile forensics company Cellebrite to unlock the Trump rally shooter’s phone — and opened it in less than an hour, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Washington Post.

Investigators at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office first tried to open Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone with a



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  • He's starred in three popular films this year, including the new blockbuster "Twisters."
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Just days after former President Donald Trump vowed to send Mark Zuckerberg to prison for “long periods of time,” the CEO of Meta is returning the favor — by complimenting Trump.

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Windows computers are seeing the Blue Screen of Death, flights are being grounded, and websites are down, all because of an update gone wrong from CrowdStrike.

"CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor," CrowdStrike wrote in an alert at 1:30 a.m. ET on Friday. "Symptoms include experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor