Global tech outage: What happened?

The big question during the global technology outage: what happened? The editor at large at TechRadar, Lance Ulanoff, broke it all down.

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[sharonmccarthy]

I love all this downplaying they are doing. WAKE UP

[scruffy]

This is insane. Who pushes large global updates all at once? Normal companies do these region by region in a rollout fashion. Seems weird the lack of testing or accountability is more than negligible

[succinctlylong]

This is what happens when equity is pushed over quality! You'll have a workforce full of diverse incompetents.

[gregjames]

Who will ever need more than 640K of memory ?
- Bill Gates -

[LaidBackTae]

One company should not be allowed to run an entire system.. its digital monopoly.. you knock out the company the entire world suffers

[neomonk]

You’re not supposed to put all your (security) eggs in one basket (provider).

[ace]

So if that happens how do you spend digital currencies?

[VPPAF]

and they want a digital currency and digital social credit score for everyone no thanks use cash

[neoblack]

It's because our government only uses really one computer OS and won't break up the monopoly or invest in creating more.

[joedushofstreet]

Apparently, there is a big plug in a special room in Washington DC and somebody tripped over it and kicked it out.

[Objection_and]

I work for a large insurance company and none of us can login….

[diegomontoya]

Letting everyone know who is in charge.
Scary.

[foxmulderfbiufo]

Its a cyber attack wtf is an i.t. outage

[Silver-joxy]

" Only fools would put all their eggs in one basket."
~unknown

[TheMercifulAndJust]

But what does Dr. Fauci have to say about this ...

[wwly]

Stay alert, test run or a mistake? We are way to venerable. Who is watching the store?

[SkankHuntForty]

Dang, what happened? Did tech support in India take the day off today?

[VastFuture]

Lady’s nose is literally falling off. Sounds like someone’s pinching her nose while talking. Why do people do this to themselves

[baldrick]

He said 'regression testing'

[roymoxley]

Hacked the easy you make this crap The easy it is to mess it up