Major web outages globally, mostly Australia

BBC coverage

Probably the cause of the airline issues.

It's big. Sky News UK is offline.

I must be lucky then. I have TPG and have experienced no outages whatsoever all day.

But it seems it is a large outage.

BBC started a live feed on this. Looks like 911 is down in Alaska.

911 is also unresponsive in Mississippi and Arkansas.

On reddit they're saying this is an extremely easy fix (finding and deleting a file), and this is going to reveal a lot of incompetent IT people.

Here's how to fix it:

It's hitting little systems like barcode scanners and causing a lot of problems at airports.

Airlines everywhere reporting check-in issues. They're using whiteboards in Delhi for flight status.

R8 Looks like CrowdStrike struck the wrong people!

I thought they always used whiteboards in Delhi for flight status, r10.

CrowdStrike is going to be sued out of existence.

Yes they are in big trouble R13. This will have cost hundreds of millions of dollars across the globe.

CrowdStrike - you in danger gurl.

People would shut themselves if they knew how flimsy most essential tech is. And we also keep forgetting that tech is useless without the single point of failure that is electrical power.

R13 Sadly, Microsoft has delivered hundreds if not thousands of bad updates that bricked certain computers worldwide, and they’re still in business. By now, technology lawyers probably write indemnification clauses in every contract.

Has anyone here gotten the Blue Screen of Death yet?

Or in DL terms: Windows is DEAD to me!!!

NHS is saying ther a issues at GP offices and hospitals.

Spirit Airlines on a ground stop now, which may not be a bad thing.

KLM halts most flights

This is worldwide. Very serious.

Hope this means a day off from work. The weather is finally just right.

This is death by a thousand cuts. Lots of interconnected systems down.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said in a post on X that it was delaying the 5 a.m. start of train service in the capital region because of the outage, and that buses may also be affected. Its website and call center are also down.

CrowdStrike saying it's a windows update that's the culprit. Microsoft fanboys melting down as I type.

It has taken down Microsoft.

I've been getting emergence messages since about 4:30 AM from a major medical center where I work in New York City. It has gone from a level 1 to a level 3 (the highest?). I'm not sure what it means, but it will be an interesting day at work today.

Ugh. As if Mac users weren't smug enough already.

Health-care systems across the globe were hobbled by the Microsoft outage. It caused chaos for patients checking in for appointments across Britain, canceled elective procedures in German hospitals and complicated some emergency response systems in the United States.

In Britain, the National Health Service was crippled throughout the morning on Friday, as it lost access to its computer systems across a number of hospitals and doctors offices. But health-care providers were clear that there was no impact on emergency services, or the ability to provide care.

CrowdStrike shares down 20% on premarket.

Nothing available at work and I need those security cameras as well as teams… My iPhone is losing power and I didn’t bring a cord.

R27 I am a remote employee of a hospital in Alabama (I live on the West Coast) and apparently I'm one of the only people who still has full access to our eMAR. Otherwise everyone else is on paper.

American said they've lifted the ground stop. Timezones kept this from being much worse.

And I imagine other countries going through it ahead of the US helped, too.

Just heard from a colleague worked the night shift at my medical center in NYC, all our computers, cameras, and telephones are out. This is a very dangerous situation.

- R27

R12 Microsoft basically runs from India, doesn't it?

Their servers are all over the globe R36.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued an advisory on the outage with a “severity rating” of “critical."

Travelers on the East Coast headed to airports on Friday were greeted with chaos and uncertainty. Airports from Boston to Miami were experiencing severe disruptions, according to FlightAware, a database that tracks flight information. As of about 7 a.m., there were more than 500 flight delays across the country.

Could take days to fix:

Oh, shit. I’m out of gas - hope the pumps/payment screens are working.

Several days of whack-a-mole fun.

r41 me too!

There were about 110,000 commercial flights scheduled worldwide on Friday, about a quarter of which were set to depart from locations in the U.S., according to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company.

Apparently some genius thought it was a good idea to perform an update on a Friday.

Tech is rife with "geniuses" like this.

Wouldn't it be funny if this person who decided to do an update on a Friday was also a DEI woman?

It's impacting a quarter of my company, including me. No work for now!

I was in the middle of doctoring some photos...

[quote] CrowdStrike saying it's a windows update that's the culprit.

R25 Right, Microsoft should never release an update until every company in the world pre-tests the update and reports back to Microsoft if it causes a problem. /s

I work for one of the largest medical centers in the world. No Windows Update can be installed on network computers until they are tested by IT that they are compatible with the many software programs that run in the medical center. That means we are often weeks to months behind on the latest updates. Only after testing does IT do a remote Windows Update on computers attached to the network.

This was an "accident" or error.

This shows how fragile the entire system really is.

Terrifying.

Starbucks is down!

Look over there!

Crikey!

But they’re upside down what do you expect?

Every law department around the world is scouring their Crowdstrike agreements, even now. Are consequentials excluded? What's indemnification for losses from a software update? Only for 3d party claims? How's that LoL?

NY having to release criminals since they can’t book them in time.

Biggest IT outage in history. It's amazing.

As long as OnlyFans is still working ....

Meh.

I suppose they are going to blame Pete Buttigieg for this as well.

Hack the planet!

HACK THE PLANET!

I work for Amazon and am dead in the water. The fixes online aren't working.

Frustrating.

It seems like every health system in the Tristate is down…except for my hospital.

This is a good and bad thing.

Hey EPIC is back up by me VOTN.

This is a taste of when the revolution begins, no guns will be needed, waut until they shut off the gas when it's -20.

I got a blue screen of DEAD TO ME but my PC rose again. Halleloo!

Imagine if NYC had a blackout like the 70;s, the meltdown of people unable to use their laptops and iphones would be hilarious. Cant even call Uber. Do they remember how to hail a cab? Would they have real cash to pay him?

A guy came into Starbucks raging because he couldn't order online. He wanted the drink he couldn't order, and he wanted it now! When some of us informed him it was a worldwide issue, he still blamed Starbucks for his inability to be attended to immediately. This while seven of us were waiting in line to order in the store.

The world worked fine in the 60s, 70s and 80s. There was no computer system to go out and you used your creative thinking to bypass any problems you encountered. Back then, everyone stopped at an intersection when the traffic lights were out, which was infrequent. Now, people see the light isn't working and they speed through the intersection anyway.

R68 that's pretty much transport everywhere these days... scary. I don't know if a lot of people could get out of the airport to ground transport without their phones or electronic money... don't know if I would. That's a good point.

The world worked fine in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Yes sort of but you wouldn't have what you have now, like you're posting on a stupid website now. Go for a walk boomer Gramps.

Anyone out there still want to vote over the Internet?

[quote] it seems it is a large outage.

Pics please.

[quote] Starbucks is down!

Oh good lord, it’s going to be a grande triple shot double whip sugar free vanilla iced latte free Friday. The horrors, I think I’m just going to go back to bed and get up when the world is fixed.

I'm glad I had nothing planned for Friday.

It sounds like a fucking shit show out there.

A friend is flying to Washington from SFO to visit/say goodbye to her dying (from brain cancer cousin) and her flight is delayed still because they can't check in. I just talked to her. This is some serious shit.

Our work computers are working just fine, no issues. I didn't know about this outage until a few hours ago - we're working remotely today.

I’m in the US and have an app on my phone from a chain of truck stops that left me a notification which turned out to be an apology for their systems being all fucked up by this, including their shower reservation system.

I’m glad now that I decided to get the app and am not on a road trip and wanting to get cleaned up! I’d have taken the issue as just one more unreliable roadside chain’s FUBAR that resulted because they weren’t bothering to pretend to give a shit anymore.

Systems finally came up a few minutes ago at my NYC medical center. They were out for almost 16 hours. I can't guess how many medication errors were probably made.

- R27

I feel bad for whoever was traveling today.

What a nightmare.

The woke world is up in arms over the recent internet outage taking over the world. Today we have the ladies of view AGAIN to show us how exactly this ties to the climate crisis….

Happy that my small non-profit had NO involvement with this shit, despite being on the Microsoft 365 Cloud.

I can't even say that you all deserved it because....we're on m365 and not affected. Also, I hate Apple.

Saw one guy on TV that said this is what we thought would happen in the year 2000 instead it is happening in 2024.

I couldn’t use Apple Pay at TJ’s!

Chocolate hummus, paid for in cash!

Apple Pay is probably screwed and haha to them.

The ignominy.

Sorry, R86.

UBER app crashed for 3 hours this afternoon. Every time we opened it and punched in our destination we got a pop up "we are experiencing technical difficulties try back in a few minutes" so we did 9 times. We were charged for 9 rides that were never dispatched. Wound up on the bus. Welcome to the cashless society.

R51, not a hacking event?

I don't trust the 365 cloud. Everything is on the hard drive, backed up to an external drive.

At the micro level, I always make a Windows backup before I install a new program or update an existing program, including Windows itself. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s no problem. But that other 1% may make you wish you were never born if you didn’t make a backup first.

Did they also blame White male supremacy, R80? Because White males are the root of all evil in the dystopian fantasy land of The View. Just ask Poopie Goldberg.

Damn! Nothing gets past R87.

[quote]The world worked fine in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Yes sort of but you wouldn't have what you have now, like you're posting on a stupid website now. Go for a walk boomer Gramps.

I am not a Boomer and I generally dont like Boomers but my hunch is Boomer Gramps would know how to get out of the city on his own accord without a cell phone while Gen Y would be crying in the airport lounge because he has no cash and no idea how to survive without a phone in his hand. He wont even have enough physical cash to buy himself a drink to drown his sorrows.

Thank you, R93.

R90, what do you define as an update that you back up your system before installing? Windows has been sending out several updates a day for the last week or so, mainly security ones.

TIA

$5.4 billion is the number.

R95 I don’t allow Windows to make updates automatically. Before I manually allow Windows to do all the updates since my last manual update, I make a system backup.