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Elon Musk holds diversity policies responsible for CrowdStrike’s global tech meltdown.



What you need to know

  • Microsoft services were recently impacted by a CrowdStrike bug, causing mass outages.
  • While Microsoft and CrowdStrike have issued statements indicating the issue has been fixed, Elon Musk used the opportunity to throw jabs at the latter’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
  • The billionaire and X owner indicated, “We just deleted CrowdStrike from all our systems” during the incident.

On July 19, 2024, the world woke up to a digital pandemic affecting Microsoft services in networking and cloud computing. Experts and analysts referred to the CrowdStrike BSoD as the “biggest IT outage the world has ever seen.”

The issue was narrowed down to a faulty CrowdStrike kernel driver, but services have seemingly been restored after Microsoft repaired its Azure servers. CrowdStrike issued a separate statement acknowledging the bug and later confirmed it had issued a fix.





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