Global tech outage hits airlines and businesses

All flights from several major US airlines, including Delta, United and American Airlines, were grounded Friday morning due to a communication issue – part of a massive debacle impacting businesses worldwide. The technical crisis is also affecting international airlines as well as mass transit in New York and Washington, DC; banking in Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, Hong Kong Disneyland and the Israeli health service. #CNN #news

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[VeraVictoria-kybc]

Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.

[ID_iKONIC_VIP]

This is what we thought was going to happen in Y2K

[homiedagrinch]

Can they clean out my credit on this outage???

[Ruben-dy]

Did you try turning it off and on again?

[jusurluck]

Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie

[michelehamilton]

Why is one company able to affect travel around the world? This is the sign of a bigger problem.

[xXNxLixeXx]

Dawg we had Trump get shoot at, Biden getting covid and potentially dropping out and now a global IT outage bro wth is going on 😭😭😭

[AprilReignsHere]

" Turns out they are angry. So we'll be staying a bit longer... "❤😂 That guy should be a children's book writer. That was awesome!
The reality of it is mind blowing 😮

[palOpalpal]

God, those poor folks just trying to travel. As if air travel wasn't annoying enough. And, those poor airport employees, too, who now have to deal with the angriest patrons they've had.

[Elfdogable]

Next story ... Crowdstrike gets hacked.

[stevep]

If there was ever a sign showing us that relying on computers to run the world might be a bad idea, this nightmare is pretty telling

[kylehahn]

Love the people thinking this was a hack. That reality would truly be more comforting than the harsher one where some sleep-deprived programmer was running late on a deadline and decided to push their code without peer-review and ended up missing some syntax error. Nothing more terrifying than life being so widely and profoundly disrupted by dispassionate incompetence without motive or cause.

[rainman]

I'm supposed to fly from Tokyo to Baltimore tomorrow with Delta. Wish me luck, boys.

[explorandovestigios]

People today are much more vulnerable than they were 40 years ago

[sherrita]

I wouldnt trust getting on a plane with all those systems down

[RudyTruly]

And we want driverless cars..Wake Up

[biancam]

What happens when almost the entire world is dependent on the same technology

[scuba]

Hmmmm...
So everyone needs to just ctrl-alt-del on the day. Going back to bed 😅😅

[AMac-qdft]

"That looks ugly, even by Atlanta standards"

[dliv]

This is what happens when we rely on internet, smart devices and AI for every aspect of our lives. It has always been a stupid idea