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☆ Paris adds an unusual museum to its illustrious roster
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Forrest Brown | Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Homage to fromageMuseums are a highlight of any visit to Paris: The Louvre! Oui – joining the ranks of Paris museums is one devoted to glorious delights of cheese. That’s very close to Notre Dame (see video) so visitors to the cheese museum can easily stop by the famed cathedral to see the progress of its restoration after its devastating fire five years ago. Entry to the museum is €20 (about $21.75 US) for adults and children 5-11 visit for half price.

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☆ Flight cancellations ease after IT outage but some disruptions linger
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Flight cancellations and delays eased on Saturday as airlines worked to recover from a global IT outage sparked chaos at airports and for other industries a day earlier. More than 1,200 flights were canceled on Saturday, with over 900 of them in the United States, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. On Friday, more than 5,000 flights were canceled worldwide, with about 3,400 in the U.S. Over 12,000 U.S. flights were delayed. A software update from CrowdStrike that went awry led to a major outage of Microsoft systems for businesses around the world. About 7% of United's mainline flights were canceled on Saturday, down from 22% on Friday, according to FlightAware data.

Persons: Toby Enqvist Organizations: Microsoft, United, Delta Air Lines, Airlines Locations: United States, U.S

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☆ Israeli airstrikes target Yemen’s Houthis day after deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Thom Poole | Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Israeli airstrikes targeted Houthi rebels in Yemen a day after the Iran-backed group claimed a deadly attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The statement came soon after the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported airstrikes targeting oil facilities in the western port of Hodeidah, adding that there had been deaths and injuries. According to Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam, the Israeli strikes hit oil tanks and a power station. The strikes on Hodeidah came a day after drone attack in Tel Aviv killed one man and injured at least 10 others. In May, at least 16 people were killed and a further 35 wounded by US-UK airstrikes in Hodeidah targeting Houthi rebels.

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☆ Russia thanks Western sanctions for helping it avoid the CrowdStrike IT outage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

An IT outage linked to a CrowdStrike update hit computer systems around the world on Friday. Russia remained unaffected, however, crediting import substitution and sanctions resilience. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA huge IT outage linked to an update for Windows issued by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike disrupted computer systems across the globe on Friday. While the issue caused hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers to crash, one country was unaffected: Russia.

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☆ The CrowdStrike fail and next global IT meltdown already in the making
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Kevin Williams | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The reality, however, was much more mundane: a botched software update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. "In this case, it was a content update," said Nick Hyatt, director of threat intelligence at security firm Blackpoint Cyber. And because CrowdStrike has such a broad base of customers, it was the content update felt around the world. In this case, the content update was tied to the CrowdStrike Falcon monitoring software. Software updates should be rolled out incrementally One lesson from the global IT outage, O'Neill said, is that CrowdStrike's update should have been rolled out incrementally.

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☆ When Tech Fails, It Is Usually With a Whimper Instead of a Bang
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( David Streitfeld | Kate Conger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Friday brought a pointed reminder that disaster is at least as likely to creep in quietly, perhaps from a piece of technology so mundane that hardly anyone knows it exists. Our lives are built on systems piled on systems. This week’s global software outage, immediately proclaimed as the biggest in history, was not caused by terrorists or A.I. It wasn’t even done as a lark by some off-the-charts smart teenager. Instead, it was a routine upgrade that somehow went off the rails.

☆ Employers can tell when you use ChatGPT in your job applications. So stop copy-pasting and do this instead.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIf you're hoping to use ChatGPT to get a leg up on job applications, you might just be shooting yourself in the foot. While companies have been leveraging AI to automatically weed out résumés, job seekers have begun responding with chatbot-generated applications to keep up — and employers are noticing. AdvertisementWhen Knutzen took his concerns to a LinkedIn post, other employers reported seeing a similar trend of a spike in AI-written job applications. "I went over to ChatGPT and I put in our live job posting, and I said give me a cover letter," Hallman told Insider. AdvertisementShe said that applicants using the same chatbot-written responses become lost among their identical competitors.

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☆ The Voting Machine Conspiracy Theorists Are Still at It
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nearly four years later, zealous supporters of former President Donald J. Trump who promoted the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged its machines to rob him of the 2020 election are still at it. Even though Dominion has aggressively defended itself in court, a network of pro-Trump activists has continued to push false claims against the company, often by seeking to use information gleaned from the very defamation lawsuits the firm has filed against them. The network includes wealthy business executives like Patrick Byrne, who once ran Overstock.com, and Mike Lindell, the founder of the bedding company MyPillow. Both have sought without credible evidence to put Dominion at the heart of a vast conspiracy to deny Mr. Trump a victory. It also includes a pro-Trump sheriff from southwest Michigan, a former election official from Colorado and Mr. Byrne’s own lawyer, who is facing charges of tampering with Dominion machines and who once worked alongside Mr. Trump’s legal team in claiming that the company was part of a plot to subvert the last election.

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☆ Alphabet earnings and 3 more things we're watching in the stock market next week
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

But in general, this is the kind of development we've hoped to see ever since Starbucks' massive earnings miss April 30. We'll take the nearly 7% pop in shares Friday and hope it's only the beginning of recovery for the beaten-up stock. Fed's fave inflation measure : The personal spending and income report will be the most closely watched economic report next week. Earnings : As the second-quarter earnings season picks up pace, we'll hear from five Club holdings next week including Google parent Alphabet . Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

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☆ CrowdStrike imposters are luring victims into scams after global tech outage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Fake tech support scams have emerged after the CrowdStrike outage disrupted systems worldwide. The outage was caused by a defective software update from CrowdStrike, not a cyberattack. CrowdStrike warned about phishing and fake websites and shared a list of impersonators. AdvertisementTech support scams are popping up after Friday's CrowdStrike debacle, which disrupted computer systems worldwide and across industries. The meltdown was triggered by a faulty software update CrowdStrike released in the morning, leaving businesses and others scrambling for solutions.

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☆ CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed. The latest version of its Falcon Sensor software was meant make CrowdStrike clients' systems more secure against hacking by updating the threats it defends against. Patrick Wardle, a security researcher who specializes in studying threats against operating systems, said his analysis identified the code responsible for the outage. It's unclear how that faulty code got into the update and why it wasn't detected before being released to customers. Other security companies have had similar episodes in the past.

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☆ Ukraine's Air Force must ditch its Soviet-style approach to get the most out of F-16s
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But only if the battered Ukrainian Air Force is capable and willing to drastically change the way it fights in the middle of the war. Finally, Ukrainian Air Force leadership must be incorporated into the Ukrainian General Staff to foster and facilitate integrated, all-domain concepts, planning, and employment." "The bottom line is that it will not be easy," Deptula, a retired US Air Force lieutenant general, told Business Insider. "It will take years for the Ukrainian military culture to shift from the model based on their Soviet military history, to Western military doctrine." For example, ground-based artillery and rockets can destroy Russian air defense systems, which enables Ukraine's air force to operate over the battlefield, and thus provide close air support to the army.

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☆ Timeline: How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Washington, DC, public transportation services — including trains and buses — begin experiencing delays, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. At 5:30 a.m., US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike tells customers that it was “aware of reports of crashes” of its software on Microsoft Windows operating systems, according to a company advisory viewed by CNN. Australian lenders ANZ and Westpac were also impacted, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks cyber outages. Other states also report impacts to their driving services, including Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Tennessee. CrowdStrike would take steps “to prevent anything like this from happening again,” according to a statement on the company’s website.

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☆ Global tech outage prompts California forecaster to give creative weather report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The widespread disturbance affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or fewer than 1% of all Windows machines, Microsoft said Saturday. He says he rushed into work to find that, sure enough, they had no weather graphics available. Donion and his producer teamed up to figure out how they could display a weather forecast on air with the systems down, he said. KRCR forecaster Preston Donion improvised his weather visuals amid the global tech outage. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/eXoWfJiBaJ — Preston Donion (@PrestonDonion) July 19, 2024“I definitely got some messages on Facebook and on Twitter saying, ‘Hey, you know, thanks for adapting.

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☆ Global IT outage leaves thousands stranded at airports amid chaos at hospitals, government agencies and 911 systems
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

All flights were grounded for United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Allegiant Airlines on Friday. Meanwhile, thousands of companies around the world are struggling with payment processing after the outage brought down systems across a wide range of businesses. Airlines, banks, TV channels and other businesses were disrupted worldwide on Friday following a major computer systems outage linked to an update on an antivirus program. In addition to hospitals, blood donation centers have experienced challenges and are altering blood shipment methods due to flight delays. The Social Security Administration closed its local offices to the public on Friday after the outage shut down numerous services.

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☆ The Crowdstrike outage and global software's single-point failure problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Kaya Ginsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this article CRWD Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTwatch nowThe frequency of large-scale attacks on corporate enterprise IT is increasing. Earlier this year, AT&T had a nationwide outage attributed to a technical update. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu | Getty ImagesSingle-point failure risk management is an issue that companies need to plan for and protect against. Companies that the Chertoff Group works with are closely reviewing software development and update standards in the wake of the CrowdStrike outage. That's likely after the recent string of incidents, from AT&T to the FAA and CrowdStrike, since this type of technical failure has now been shown to impact the lives of citizens and operations of critical infrastructure on a widespread basis.

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☆ Most people hate this part of applying for a job — but it's still important to do
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewIt's one of the most frustrating parts of the job application process: You've already uploaded your résumé, but now you're being asked to rehash all of your work experience in the application. In a June 2024 survey of 2,000 US-based professionals by FlexJobs and MyPerfectResume, 79% said their biggest "turn-off" in a job application is having to re-enter their work history after uploading a résumé. "Job seekers have probably seen this, where they've applied for jobs at different companies and experienced different ATS systems and different parsing each time." AdvertisementAnd of course, there's also a much simpler reason to re-enter your job information.

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☆ How to Guard Against Scams Tied to the CrowdStrike Crash
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Hank Sanders | Emmett Lindner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the hours after the American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike deployed a flawed software update that crippled critical businesses and services around the world, scammers pounced. Government agencies and businesses have warned that the panic caused by the CrowdStrike crash on Friday has given criminals an opening to take advantage of customers who are looking to reschedule flights, access banking information or fix their technology. CrowdStrike provides cybersecurity for some 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies, so the crash led to widespread failures that grounded planes, crippled businesses, disrupted 911 emergency systems and delayed banking transactions. Thieves online are using the confusion to carry out a variety of scams, including phishing attempts, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said. The National Cyber Security Center in the United Kingdom issued a similar statement noting that an “increase in phishing referencing this outage has already been observed.”

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☆ Tech Outage Strands Passengers at Airports Around the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | More About Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Airports across the United States slowly descended into chaos early Friday after a worldwide tech outage disrupted flights and stranded passengers. At least five airlines — Allegiant Air, American, Delta, Spirit and United — issued ground stops, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. is closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines,” the agency said in a statement. “Several airlines have requested F.A.A. assistance with ground stops for their fleets until the issue is resolved.”It was unclear how long the ground stops were expected to last, but it was causing some headaches for travelers.

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☆ We need to make these systems 'a lot more resilient', says Cohesity CEO on global tech outages
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe need to make these systems 'a lot more resilient', says Cohesity CEO on global tech outagesSanjay Poonen, Cohesity CEO, and Mike Aiello, Secureworks CTO, join 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk the impact of today's major tech meltdown.

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☆ Recovering from the global tech outage could be a long, arduous process
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The CrowdStrike software at fault operates at what’s called the kernel level of a computer, a much deeper level than what more ordinary applications such as browsers or video games do. For businesses with hundreds or thousands of laptops, desktops and servers running CrowdStrike’s security software, an individual human may have to perform that process over and over and over again. Because CrowdStrike’s security software is running on countless individual computers all around the globe, the update that got pushed to those devices caused them all to shut down, virtually simultaneously. The CrowdStrike bug may have initially been conflated with the Microsoft issue because CrowdStrike’s error affected only Windows machines. As of Friday morning, Microsoft said the issue with Microsoft 365 had been resolved and that the situation was improving.

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☆ The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over the past year, many of the most important web sources used for training A.I. models have restricted the use of their data, according to a study published this week by the Data Provenance Initiative, an M.I.T.-led research group. The study, which looked at 14,000 web domains that are included in three commonly used A.I. training data sets, discovered an “emerging crisis in consent,” as publishers and online platforms have taken steps to prevent their data from being harvested. The researchers estimate that in the three data sets — called C4, RefinedWeb and Dolma — 5 percent of all data, and 25 percent of data from the highest-quality sources, has been restricted.

☆ United and American Warn Pilots of Communication Issues Amid Grounding
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and American Airlines issued ground stops on Friday. United and American warned pilots that communication was intermittent. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMajor airlines have warned pilots they may be unable to communicate with ground services. American Airlines and United Airlines issued advisories to be relayed to the carriers' airborne flights early Friday morning.

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☆ What We Know About the Global Outage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Eshe Nelson | More About Eshe Nelson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Across the world, critical businesses and services including airlines, hospitals, train networks and TV stations, are being disrupted by a global tech outage affecting Microsoft users. In many countries, flights have been grounded, workers couldn’t access their systems and, in some cases, customers haven’t been able to make card payments in stores. A series outages rippled across the globe as information displays, login systems and broadcasting networks went dark. The problem affecting the majority of services was caused by a flawed update by CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity firm, whose systems are designed to protect users from hackers. Microsoft said on Friday that it was aware of an issue affecting machines running “CrowdStrike Falcon.”

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