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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Recovering From The Great Computer Meltdown: What's Next?
Description: This past Friday's worldwide Microsoft computer meltdown, will likely go down in history as one of the most epic tech failures...ever.
Airlines, hospitals, banks, retailers, government agencies; you name it–all dead in the water for hours, with everybody staring at the dreaded blue screen of death, repeatedly trying to reboot their systems, and wondering how long it would take to fix.
Luckily, the problem, caused by a faulty CrowdStrike cybersecurity update, has been resolved for many users. But for example, as of the time of this recording (Tuesday morning, July 23rd); Delta Airlines was still struggling with hundreds of...