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Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story

This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash. Links - Read our in-depth article about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet - Find more about the 911 outages across several US states - CrowdStrike's own review of the problem - Our podcast on the XZ exploit - Facebook VPN exploitation - The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio

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  End of Life: Time to X goodbye to Windows 10

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  Militarisation of Tech: Redefining the Battlefield

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  What's News? Back to work!

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  Rewilding the Internet with Maria Farrell

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  Cycles of Control: Reproductive rights and digital risks

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  Learning about learners: Protecting Children's Data

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  Why is my government undermining my security?: targeted and betrayed

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  What's News?

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  Counting every vote: Technology and voter data in Latin American elections

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  Vertical Mergers: Competition, Connectivity, and Starlink

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  The End of Privacy in Public: Facial Recognition and the UK Parliament

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  Data and Disability: Rights in a Digitised world

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  Enter the matrix: How to run an encrypted communications platform

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  The XZ exploit: The day the internet got lucky

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  The Cryptowars: A short history of encryption politics