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A computer scientist’s take on the CrowdStrike crash
On July 19, millions of Windows users encountered the dreaded “blue screen of death.” A bug in a critical piece of cybersecurity software, called CrowdStrike, was causing the operating system to crash. For some people and companies, the issue is ongoing, …