Global IT Outage: Crowdstrike Reports Impact on Windows PCs, Sparing Mac and Linux Hosts
```htmlA widespread system failure is currently affecting numerous Windows devices globally, causing critical boot failures across various industries, including banks, rail networks, airlines, retailers, broadcasters, healthcare, and many more sectors. The issue, manifesting as a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), is preventing computers from starting up properly ...
Redis Optimizes Vector Semantic Search Performance with New Multi-Threaded Query Engine
Redis, the popular in-memory data structure store, has recently released its enhanced Redis Query Engine. This development comes at a time when vector databases are gaining prominence due to their importance in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for GenAI applications. Redis announced significant improvements to its Query Engine, using ...
Unexpected Blue Screen of Death Crashes CrowdStrike Servers
CrowdStrike has admitted to pushing out a bad software update, causing many Windows machines running the affected software to crash. The problem, apparently affecting its Falcon platform, brought down servers at airlines, locked up computers at banks, and hurt healthcare services.“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted ...
OpenAI Cuts AI Costs with New High-Performance GPT-4o Mini
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Global Outage: Faulty CrowdStrike Update Cripples Windows Systems, Underscoring the Need for Cautious Roll-Outs and High Software Standards
This morning, a number of major systems suffered an outage due to a bad CrowdStrike update. CrowdStrike is an endpoint protection system that runs in the background of a lot of enterprise computers to secure them, and the update caused Windows machines running the updated software to ...