(19 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dallas – 19 July 2024
1. Various of long lines at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Logan Luster, Traveler:
“We walked into a giant line. We made it all the way through the line, and they basically said, sorry we’re not boarding ya’ll yet. Just find a wall and wherever we are, we can, we can get you on there.”
3. Various of family waiting for delayed flight
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Logan Luster, Traveler:
“With all the, the Microsoft outage and all the, systems being down there actually doing everything on paper, which is what’s taking so long.”
5. Various of long lines at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
6. Close of woman waiting for delayed flight
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Logan Luster, Traveler:
“I feel awful for everybody whose flights are getting canceled. People going to things like funerals or stuff of that situation. This is unacceptable.”
8. Close of passenger waiting in line
9. Wide of long lines at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Neibert David, Traveler:
“One thing that I would say is probably we need to as a nation, look into our technical technology dependance, because if things like this occur, what’s going to happen? So maybe we need to have a backup plan, a backup plan as a nation.”
11. Wide of passengers waiting in line and sitting down
STORYLINE:
Much of the world faced online disarray Friday as a widespread technology outage affected companies and services across industries — grounding flights, knocking banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air.
At the heart of the massive disruption is CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to scores of companies worldwide. The company says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows, noting that the issue behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack.
CrowdStrike has said a fix is on the way. Still, chaos deepened hours after the problem was first detected.
Here’s what you need to know.
How did Friday’s global outage happen?
Friday’s disruptions began when a faulty update was pushed out from CrowdStrike for one of its tools, “Falcon.” In a statement about the ongoing situation, the company said the defect was found “in a single content update for Windows hosts” — noting that Mac and Linux systems were not impacted.
But, because scores of companies rely on CrowdStrike for their security needs with Windows as their operating system, the consequences of this kind of technical problem have been far-reaching.
Long lines formed at airports in the U.S., Europe and Asia as airlines lost access to check-in and booking services during peak summer travel — disrupting thousands of flights. Banks in South Africa and New Zealand reported outages impacting payments and online services. Some news stations, particuarly in Australia, were unable to broadcast for hours. And hospitals had problems with their appointment systems, leading to delays and sometimes cancelations for critical care, while officials in some U.S. states warned of 911 problems in their areas.
Elsewhere, people experienced more minor inconveniences, including trouble ordering ahead at Starbucks, causing long lines at some of the coffee chain’s stores. Some billboards in New York City’s famous Times Square also went dark.
===========================================================
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ddf3c480709c49a680799c350a67fbcd
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in July 24, 2024, 9:04 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
