This week, we discuss the CrowdStrike outage, FinOps data exports, and the state of open-source forks. Plus, Matt shares some exciting exclusive news about his future!
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Rundown
CrowdStrikeHuge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
12-hour timelapse of airline traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history
Flights grounded and offices hit as internet users face disruptions
TODAY (@TODAYshow) on X
George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) on X
CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare
Heard on the Street: CrowdStrike May Get More Than a Slap
What Happened to Digital Resilience?
SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC’s Fraud Case Over Hack
Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
Microsoft tried to get AV vendors to use APIs
House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
Crashes and Competition
The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning
Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
Announcing Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview) in AWS Billing and Cost Management
Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
Import and export Markdown in Google Docs
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
The Post-Valkey World
A tale of two forks - comparing Valkey/Redis and OpenTofu/Terraform!
Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up
Google-Backed Software Developer GitLab Eyes Sale, Reuters Says
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OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model
Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets
Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
IBM shares jump on earnings and revenue beat
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