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Columbus, OH

New York City, NY

New York Post

An owner of a consumer insights research firm couldn’t pay her employees, make Friday’s deadline to sign a contract for a new business or send key research to a key client.

 A psychiatrist, who runs a virtual mental health practice in Maryland, saw his business hobbled as some of his virtual assistants and therapists couldn’t either make phone calls or log on to their computers. 

And a restaurant owner in New York City was worried about how he was going to pay his vendors and his workers.



Businesses from airlines to hospitals have been grappling with a faulty software update that...

CrowdStrike outages highlight inequalities between big business and mom & pop shops

Is your company home to any of the 8.5 million Windows PCs clobbered by the July 18 CrowdStrike-induced outage? If so, Microsoft has a new recovery tool designed to help you repair those corrupted computers and get them up and running again. The outage was the result of a buggy...

Microsoft releases a CrowdStrike recovery tool - here's how it works

Microsoft Windows powers more than a billion PCs and millions of servers worldwide, many of them playing key roles in facilities that serve customers directly. So, what happens when a trusted software provider delivers an update that causes those PCs to immediately stop working?. As of July 19, 2024, we...

What caused the great CrowdStrike-Windows meltdown of 2024? History has the answer

Millions of people outside the IT industry are learning what CrowdStrike is today, and that's a real bad thing. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also catching blame for global network outages, and between the two, it's unclear as of Friday morning just who caused what. After cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike shipped an update...

Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

A CrowdStrike VP last month outlined the risks of organizations locking their IT systems to a single vendor. That warning was all too relevant today as a CrowdStrike glitch takes PCs offline. A CrowdStrike executive speaking at an event last month might as well have just time-traveled to July 19...

Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of 'Single Point of Failure'

HuffPost

Insiders told reporters that one word would not be used in the former president's speech. It was — twice.

Trump Utters The 1 Word He Wasn't Supposed To Say During RNC Speech

Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Meghan Markle reportedly had problems with Prince William before leaving the royal family -- and Harry revealed she once ‘burst’ into tears over a statement released by William’s team

Prince Harry Revealed Meghan Markle ‘Burst Into Floods of Tears’ After Prince William Released a Statement About the Couple

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Austin, TX

The New Republic

Heat waves have killed thousands around the world in recent months. As periods of exceptionally high temperatures become increasingly frequent and intense due to climate change, drastic action is required to limit the damage. The electric power sector is both contributing to the problem as one of the principal sources of greenhouse gas emissions and being hurt by it, as seen by the early arrival of a powerful storm like Hurricane Beryl and lower water levels at Lake Mead threatening the Hoover Dam’s ability to produce energy. The United States, the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases and the second largest polluter today, has begun cleaning up its power...

The Best Way to Fight Heat Waves and Outages Is to Green the Grid

The internet is boring. There is a reason so much online activity has converged on scrolling. Channel surfing, we used to call it, when TV, online’s primitive passive precursor, exploded into hundreds of options, few of them any good. The internet accelerated the trend. We move through tiny bits of text, images, video, occasionally alighting on something that catches our attention for longer than 10 seconds. The pause, the post, the like, the retweet—these illusions of interactivity are all recorded as data in a statistical model; the algorithm automatically delivers more text, images, and video whose constituent parts, converted to...

Confessions of a Hacktivist

Donald Trump promised a massive deportation plan Thursday night, even larger than the biggest mass deportation in U.S. history: President Dwight Eisenhower’s racist-named “Operation Wetback.” The former president was doing his typical fearmongering, blaming immigrants for any and all of the country’s ills, when he decided to name-drop the thirty-fourth U.S. president. “And bad things are gonna happen, and you’re gonna see it happen all the time,” said Trump. “And that’s why the Republican platform promises to launch the biggest deportation operation in the history of our country. Even larger than that of Dwight D. Eisenhower, from many years ago.”Under...

Trump Is Planning the Most Inhumane Immigration Policy in U.S. History

Los Angeles, CA

In the first two weeks of July, extreme heat killed at least 37 people across the United States, and 19 in one California county alone, according to conservative estimates reported by CNN. Last week, Las Vegas set a new record of five consecutive days with temperatures over 115 degrees, while Washington, D.C., hit 104 degrees on Tuesday amid what is so far the city’s hottest summer ever.It’s not just the U.S. In April, heat waves hammered East Asia, breaking records in Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. At least 1,300 are estimated to have died from extreme temperatures during this year’s Hajj...

Will Heat Waves Become a Voting Issue?

A suspected crash in an anti-virus update has taken down services worldwide.

Massive Microsoft outage shuts down Sky News, Xbox Live and a whole lot more

People will start sizing up Kamala
Harris as a possible presidential candidate here in the next few seconds, and I imagine we’re going to
hear some version of this sentence a lot on cable news this week: Well, she
ran for president once before, and she ran such a bad race that she didn’t even
make it to Iowa, withdrawing before a single vote was even cast.That is true. She did run a bad
race. There are a couple of lessons to be learned from it. For starters, she
should make sure her best debate zinger—aimed,
remember, at Joe Biden—is not a defense of a deeply unpopular...

Kamala Harris Has Two Superpowers, and That’s All She Needs

In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.” Yarvin, a self-described reactionary and extremist who was 35 years old at the time, clarified that he was “just kidding.” But then he continued, “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem...

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

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WyoFile

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with more information about the law enforcement response and the area where the shooting took place. Yellowstone National Park rangers shot and killed a person early Thursday morning during an exchange of gunfire that also left a ranger injured, the park announced.

Yellowstone National Park shooting leaves one dead, ranger injured

Illinois State

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

MOD Pizza has over 500 locations across the country with 22 restaurants in Illinois. The Washington-based chain offers fast-casual fare known for its customized, artisan-style pizzas. Customers can choose from over 40 toppings and 8 sauces to create their own masterpiece.

Bankruptcy Looms for Major Pizza Chain With Chicago Suburban Locations

Fond Du Lac, WI

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NewsByJoshua

In a recent move that’s bound to shake things up, Mercury Marine has announced a series of partial layoffs affecting about 1,700 employees at their Fond du Lac headquarters. The company, grappling with a decline in sales, is implementing these layoffs throughout the rest of the year.

An engine manufacturer is laying off 1,700 workers due to drop in sales

California State

The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Gov. Andy Beshear sent a letter to Anne Milgram, administrator for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Wednesday, expressing his support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ recommendation that the DEA ease restrictions on marijuana.

Gov. Andy Beshear pens letter to DEA in support of easing federal restrictions on marijuana

Pictures of stranded travelers at airports looking mournfully at rows of monitors frozen on the same Windows “blue screen of death” may look like a new level of tech dystopia. But the fallout from Friday’s worldwide outage sparked by a botched update from the security provider CrowdStrike is better viewed as a sequel to a movie we’ve seen before—which like so many cinematic productions is just the latest installment in an ongoing series.Tech experts have warned for decades against relying too much on any one company’s software or services, lest their potential blast radius grow too large when attackers exploit...

We’ve Seen the Crowdstrike-Windows Outage Before—and Will Again

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