Graph of stock price, showing sharp 11% drop in stock price after Crowdstrike bricks some number of millions or billions of devices running Windows.

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   Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 07:33:40 JST Dan Luu

   For people who haven't been following this, a Crowdstrike update has caused Windows boxes to persistently BSoD on boot.

   Some embedded devices don't have a nice remote recovery protocol and can't be recovered without basically sending the device to the factory or opening the device up and attempting to get some kind of unusual access that users aren't intended to have, which has caused problems for hospitals, factories, etc.

   There are some reports that repeated reboots may get past the BSoD.