Mass IT outage: here's a list of companies and operations affected

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Passengers waiting at Barajas Airport in Madrid following the IT outage on Friday.

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The Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage could spur a Big Tech trust reckoning and threaten tech giants' plans for AI

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A CrowdStrike software issue caused a global Microsoft IT outage, disrupting a number of industries.

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Global computer glitch grounds flights, knocks out 911

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A global IT outage made the world stop Thursday into the weekend when CrowdStrike's flawed update disrupted Microsoft software everywhere.

Some US hospitals are canceling non-emergency surgeries and procedures amid the global IT outage

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Hospital systems are seeing effects to patient care stemming from the global Crowdstrike IT outage.

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I'm a software engineer stranded in the IT outage airport chaos. CrowdStrike broke a cardinal rule of software development and I can't believe the fallout.

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Check-in was congested at Barcelona-El Prat Airport.

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Why Apple doesn't suffer outages like this

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Mac users are safe from the global IT outage.

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Did you turn it off and on? Microsoft says some users solved the CrowdStrike problem after rebooting up to 15 times.

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A mass IT outage has disrupted Microsoft systems.

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This will be the largest IT outage in history, bringing Y2K fears to reality, web-security expert says

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In the build-up to 2000, there was panic about the prospect of the Year 2000 problem, or Y2K bug, which people feared would cause mass outages.

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Crowdstrike says the global IT outage was not caused by a cyberattack

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George Kurtz is CEO of Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity firm linked to a mass IT outage.

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How one IT update gone wrong has sparked chaos around the world

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A global IT outage has caused problems at airports and many other organizations.

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