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What is the Importance of Computer in Human Life?

Let's explore the uses of computers in various fields and why the computer is important in our lives. 

Why Are Computers So Important In Our Lives?

Today, the computer is indispensable, and its presence has become very important and necessary in our daily lives, and it has become easier for us to do many operations and activities.

A computer is an electronic device that receives information and data, automatically stores it retrieves it at any time, and uses it in a useful manner. The computer converts different types of numbers and solves intractable mathematical equations very quickly and with high accuracy.

The computer was invented in the second half of the twentieth century and now it has become the backbone of life.

Some operations before the invention of the computer were very difficult, including searches and doing some arithmetic activities. In 1642 AD, the calculator was invented to facilitate arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, and other arithmetic operations.

Read Here: What are the Uses of Mathematics in Everyday Life?

The computer has been able to invade the lives of individuals in a large way, and it is used in all areas of their lives, and based on this great position that it has enjoyed, the manufacturers have been interested in producing many shapes and types for it in line with the user's need, including the mobile device, office devices, and others.

The more advanced the device is, the more benefits will be gained from it. There are many things to consider before buying a computer for everyday use.

Computer use is common in homes, institutions, businesses, and education, it is also an integral part of the services, entertainment, and other sectors.

The Uses of Computers in Our Daily Lives

The computer is used in several areas of our lives, including the following:

Education: The use of computers in the field of education is one of its most important benefits in daily human life. It is one of the most important educational tools used by teachers and students.

The computer is used in the field of education in schools and universities, where hard disks and magnetic disks are used to explain the lessons, and drawings and films are used to deliver information to students, as well as the students retain the information in order to retrieve it at a later time.

The computer has restructured the education system. Schools, colleges, and almost all educational institutions use at least one computer each semester, and many colleges and universities offer online degrees to students.

Many schools and colleges around the world are now using computer and Internet technologies to teach students digitally and creatively, as the use of the computer in the classroom unleashes creativity and imagination among students.  Through computer programs, you can learn more deeply and more accurately, such as: drawing tools, spreadsheets, music, video lectures, and PowerPoint presentations.

This has led to the creation of new models of work in the field of education, such as: small classes, smart classrooms, and digital classrooms.

Medicine: The computer is widely used in the field of health care, as it has become an integral part of hospitals, laboratories, and medical clinics. 

The following are some examples of computer use in health care:

• The computer is used to archive patients' records and the treatments they receive.
• It facilitates the medical diagnosis of patients and monitors their health conditions.
• It is an effective medical tool, which allows monitoring of the heart rate and blood pressure of a sick person. 
• It helps in performing some types of surgeries.
• It provides the possibility of exchanging medical expertise and consultations between doctors around the world.

The Internet: The computer is used to access the Internet, and the Internet is used as a means of communication between people in all countries of the world. 

With the help of the Internet you keep in touch with your friends and family, computers provide this to you easily, and the Internet is also used to search for information. You just have to type a word in the search engine and open many pages to provide all the information about the specific word, and you can also watch movies, videos, and news on computers connected to the Internet.

Communication: Computers are one of the main tools that allow communication between people regardless of their location, as the computer has become an effective communication tool that brings together family members, relatives, and friends, and allows job interviews to be conducted virtually. This is done by connecting the computer to the Internet, and then using some programs and tools to conduct Internet communications, whether visual or even audio.

A computer connected to the Internet allows the use of various social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and others. These means allow users to interact with each other by sharing photos, videos, and other activities.

The computer is also used to organize phone lines, pay phone bills, and control the purity of voice calls.

Business: The business sector is one of the most important sectors in which the computer is used, due to the numerous and important services it provides for employers or workers.

Through the computer, many different actions can be performed,  such as conducting online sales, transferring funds between accounts, completing large account operations, and other institutional work that requires speed and accuracy.

 The computer also provides business companies with the ability to create economic forecast plans based on some of the data it is provided with. In addition, corporate computers provide protection for their data and information from theft or vandalism.

When a user surfs the browser, there is a passing of information between the server and the user's PC. It should be encrypted with modern encryption standards. It is therefore necessary to have an SSL certificate to secure online transactions.

The use of computers in business has made it easier to find employees. This is done through some specialized social media such as LinkedIn.

The computer has also made it easier to manage the company's employee records through specialized programs, as well as to prepare the company's budget, tax forms, and others.

Transportation: The computer is used in transportation, where the routes of transportation lines are controlled, as well as booking travel tickets via the computer and recently via the Internet, and booking international airline tickets anywhere in the world via the Internet.

The computer is used to control transportation, determine the take-off and direction of aircraft, and store information about workers in the field of transportation.

The industry: Computer uses are widespread in the industry, as most companies today have a wide range of uses for computers, and factories have become highly dependent on the operation of machines to ensure a high level of quality.

 The use of computers in the industry has been a great necessity, as it is used as a means to allocate industrial resources more efficiently, as well as as a means to reach a larger group of potential customers. As a result, IT jobs have flourished as the industry relies on computers for its daily operations.

Entertainment: Computers are among the best sources of entertainment because they offer a wide range of options related to entertainment and entertainment. Through the computer, you can listen to music, watch some movies and videos, and talk and chat with your friends.

Today, everything related to daily life can be done with a few simple clicks, where breakfast can be ordered online, newspapers can also be read, and work from home can be done comfortably with the help of a laptop.

Engineering and military: Both the engineering and military fields are broad areas of computer use. The computer helps accomplish many operations, including: 

The computer provides special programs for advanced engineering drawing,  such as the design of buildings, structures, ships, planes, city planning, and design through 2D and 3D graphics.

The computer is used in the field of military industries and to control them through computerized control systems that control missile launches, military communications, military planning operations, and smart weapons.

Security systems: The computer is used in various electronic protection systems, such as surveillance cameras, which are widely used in private and government facilities in order to monitor the movement of goods and people in these areas.

Some types of computers, particularly those built with facial recognition and fingerprint, have also contributed to reducing the possibility of identity fraud.

Automation systems: Computers are used in automation systems that are concerned with the manufacture of automated robots.

It also facilitates the completion of much other work such as manufacturing and assembling auto parts, in addition to that, robots or automated programs can be used in scientific discovery tasks that are difficult for humans to carry out, such as exploring geographical areas that are inaccessible to humans.

Problem Solving: Today, the computer is used to find solutions to any problem through computer experts. Technological problems are solved by finding solutions by experts, directly or indirectly, and this affects our daily lives positively.

The Importance of Computers in Our Daily Life

The importance of computers in daily life can be summarized as follows:

• A computer is a vital tool for accessing and processing information and data, as it is the first window to access the Internet.
• It is an important tool for science students, who generally rely on it in preparing their educational reports and projects.
• It facilitates ways of communicating with others by editing and writing messages and preparing reports and documents.
• It is an effective element in achieving success in the educational process.
• It is a major tool in distance education, this type of education cannot be completed without the presence of a laptop or computer.
• It helps to be familiar with the news and stay up to date, as it is a means of communicating with the outside world.
• It helps in doing some electronic transactions, such as making payments, purchasing, and others.
• It helps perform the tasks assigned to the user.
• It provides tools and means to facilitate work, such as tables, worksheets, presentations, and many more.
• It preserves and stores information away from the damaging factors of traditional methods of storage.
• It facilitates making and storing calculations.

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The Objects of Our Life

Steve’s talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen

Clips from Steve’s talk at the IDCA

Introduction by Jony Ive

Steve rarely attended design conferences. This was 1983, before the launch of the Mac, and still relatively early days of Apple. I find it breathtaking how profound his understanding was of the dramatic changes that were about to happen as the computer became broadly accessible. Of course, beyond just being prophetic, he was fundamental in defining products that would change our culture and our lives forever. 

On the eve of launching the first truly personal computer, Steve is not solely preoccupied with the founding technology and functionality of the product’s design. This is extraordinarily unusual, as in the early stages of dramatic innovation, it is normally the primary technology that benefits from all of the attention and focus.

Steve points out that the design effort in the U.S. at the time had been focused on the automobile, with little consideration or effort given to consumer electronics. While it is not unusual to hear leaders talk about the national responsibility to manufacture, I thought it was interesting that he talked about a nation’s responsibility to design.

In the talk, Steve predicts that by 1986 sales of the PC would exceed sales of cars, and that in the following ten years, people would be spending more time with a PC than in a car. These were absurd claims for the early 1980s. Describing what he sees as the inevitability that this would be a pervasive new category, he asks the designers in the audience for help. He asks that they start to think about the design of these products, because designed well or designed poorly, they still would be made.

Steve remains one of the best educators I’ve ever met in my life. He had that ability to explain incredibly abstract, complex technologies in terms that were accessible, tangible and relevant. You hear him describe the computer as doing nothing more than completing fairly mundane tasks, but doing so very quickly. He gives the example of running out to grab a bunch of flowers and returning by the time you could snap your fingers – speed rendering the task magical.

When I look back on our work, what I remember most fondly are not the products but the process. Part of Steve’s brilliance was how he learned to support the creative process, encouraging and developing ideas even in large groups of people. He treated the process of creating with a rare and wonderful reverence.

The revolution Steve described over 40 years ago did of course happen, partly because of his profound commitment to a kind of civic responsibility. He cared, way beyond any sort of functional imperative. His was a victory for beauty, for purity and, as he would say, for giving a damn. He truly believed that by making something useful, empowering and beautiful, we express our love for humanity.

On a sunny June morning in 1983, Steve waits at the back of a giant tent, ready to take the stage at the International Design Conference in Aspen. This year’s theme is “The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be,” and he is here to talk about computers to an audience of several hundred designers and design-lovers.

The night before, Steve gave a demonstration of the Lisa computer, one of the first commercially available machines with a mouse and a graphical user interface. These innovations meant that people would no longer need to type commands or punch arrow keys to use a computer. Instead they could use a mouse to click, drag, and navigate among icons, menus, and graphics—and even draw and paint.

Interior of Aspen Amphitheater , 1983

Steve had been happy to introduce Apple’s latest product, but he knows that this morning’s speech, here under the gauzy Eero Saarinen–designed tent in the flower-filled fields of the Aspen Institute, is the main event. Called to the stage, he bounds down the center aisle, notebook in hand. He leaps up to take his place at the podium. He is the cofounder and chair of Apple, a “legend in his own time,” according to his onstage introduction—but he is also 28 and excited for this, his first formal talk to a gathering of esteemed designers. He has chosen not to title his presentation; the program refers to it only as “Talk.”

He leans into the microphone. “They paid me sixty dollars, so I wore a tie,” he says, gesturing to the striped bow tie he has paired with a sports jacket and jeans. A grin stretches across his face; the audience laughs. He takes off his jacket, realizes there is nowhere to put it, and drops it to the floor, where it lays in a crumpled heap for the rest of his talk.

“How many of you own an Apple?” he asks from the stage.

No reaction.

“Any, or…just any personal computer?” 

A bit of rustling from the audience. They are shifting in their seats. For most of them, design is still a craft of pencils, paper, rubber cement, straight edges, and clay.

Steve laughs. “Uh–oh. How many of you’ve used one, or seen one—anything like that?” 

He must see a few hands raised in the audience. “Good. OK.” Steve rolls up his shirt sleeves. He has his work cut out for him.

Apple Lisa Computer Print Advertisement, 1983

Computers were so rare in American homes at this time that the U.S. Census wouldn’t begin tracking their presence for another year. Even then, in 1984, only 8 percent of households had a computer (and of those that did, roughly 70 percent of those machines had been bought in the past two years). By contrast, 98 percent of households had televisions.

People didn’t own computers, but they did have a sense that the machine was about to become very, very important. A few months before Steve spoke at Aspen, Time Magazine had bucked its own tradition to name the computer its Man of the Year, the machine thus joining the ranks of presidents, monarchs, astronauts, and peacemakers. And on the strength of the personal computer’s promise, Apple had just become the youngest company to join the Fortune 500.

What this new machine would mean for daily life, however, was still unclear in 1983. An internal Apple document cautions that many people encountering a computer for the first time “might be a little bit afraid. They still aren’t sure they can actually operate a computer, but know it’s time they join the ‘revolution’.”

Steve has come to Aspen as a standard-bearer for this revolution. Back at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, he is leading the development of everything he thinks the company will need to bring computers to “the rest of us”: the publicity, the advertising, the educational programs, the groundbreaking television commercial, and above all, the right machine. The Macintosh, of course, would be that machine, combining the best of the Lisa with other breakthroughs and packaging them all in a squat, friendly little case with a footprint hardly bigger than a typewriter.

But he cannot talk about the work secretly in development, much less show it. His only tools are his passion and the blue spiral notebook he has placed on the lectern in front of him.

.css-1ohz91i{margin-left:-0.4em;} “ When you have a million people using something, then that’s when creativity really starts to happen on a rapid scale. ”

On stage, Steve launches into a history of computing. He regularly consults his notebook, reading or glancing at its pages to confirm the year that the first computer-science degree was granted or details about the pioneering ENIAC computer and the timesharing models that followed.

In the middle of this studied presentation, he interrupts himself. “Let me digress for a minute,” he says. Then he goes off script.

“One of the reasons I’m here is because I need your help.”

For this, the heart of his message to the designers in Aspen, he doesn’t need his notes.

He predicts that the industry will sell three million computers in 1983 and ten million in 1986, “whether they look like a piece of shit or they look great.” The audience, pleasantly scandalized, laughs at his swearing, but Steve doesn’t crack a smile. He doesn’t say so, but he has already seen proof of what he considers indiscriminate taste: sales of the IBM PC, the computer Steve is likely thinking of when he says that current machines “look like garbage” and are a “pain in the ass,” have just overtaken sales of Apple’s flagship Apple II.

“ We have a shot at putting a great object [out] there, and it doesn’t cost any more money to make it look great. ”

One American industry after another—cars, televisions, cameras, watches—has lost market share to foreign competition, he explains, and he is worried that the same will happen with the computer if it becomes what he calls “one more piece-of-junk-object.” This moment, when “computers and society are out on a first date”—and here he interlaces his fingers to show how close that relationship could one day become—offers a rare opportunity that they must seize together. The audience is present at the birth of something monumental, and they can help define it. His voice rises with emotion. “We need help. We really, really need your help.”

“ We have a chance to make these things beautiful, and we have a chance to communicate something through the design of the objects themselves. ”

Steve has spent the past few years learning everything he can about design. He has always loved beautiful objects, and from its very beginning, Apple paid particular attention to product design. On the day the company was incorporated, Apple’s first board chair Mike Markkula circulated a memo reminding the staff, “People DO judge a book by its cover.”

The Apple Marketing Philosophy, 1977

To serve as Apple’s first in-house designer, Steve hired Jerry Manock, who had worked a few miles up the road at Hewlett-Packard. Steve adored his HP-35 calculator, not just for its functionality but also for how it felt in his hand and for the haptic response of the keys when he pressed them. He wanted that attention to detail applied to Apple’s products. And as Apple hired more designers and worked with outside firms like Hovey-Kelley Design (whose co-founder David Kelley would go on to launch IDEO), Steve did everything he could to learn from the experts. He studied their fashion choices; a few days after he saw industrial designer Rob Gemmell in gray Nikes with cutting-edge Velcro straps, Steve showed up at work with a pair of his own. He sat in on meetings of the newly formed Apple design guild, where his being the only non-designer present did not stop him from offering merciless criticisms—a provocation some saw as presumptuous and others took as an invitation to push back or try to educate him.

He wanted to talk about everything he saw, and he wanted to see everything. He looked closely at kitchen appliances and VW vans, wine labels, gallery paintings, motorcycles, and telephones. He took the Macintosh team to San Francisco’s de Young Museum to see an exhibit of Tiffany lamps. He asked Joanna Hoffman, a Macintosh marketing manager, about the Issey Miyake-designed clothes she had saved her money to buy: Did she think their asymmetry and superlative craftsmanship could ever have wide appeal in the United States?

He was developing his eye, absorbing into his bones the lesson that good design is not mere decoration or ornament, but a paring away to help an object reveal its essence and, ultimately, evoke an emotional connection with its user. 

Along with several Apple designers, he toyed with the idea of filling a room with objects they loved, then directing new hires to spend their first day at work in that room. He curated his own life, choosing to live in an empty space with just a few exquisite things—a Tiffany lamp, a custom-assembled stereo system. 

Steve at home, sitting under his Tiffany lamp, photographed by Diana Walker in 1982

He later told an interviewer, “It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.”

He flew to Japan, where he met with Akio Morita, CEO of Sony, who gave him a first-generation Walkman, the portable music player Steve admired. He attended his first Aspen conference in 1981; the theme was “The Italian Idea,” and the work of designers such as Mario Bellini, Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, and Richard Sapper took center stage. He wrote to Mario Bellini and visited Italy to meet with Olivetti’s Ettore Sottsass. When Apple designers Gemmell and Manock proposed sponsoring a competition in which several top European designers would be invited to create a cohesive design language for a family of seven Apple products, Steve leapt at the idea.

By the spring of 1982, he was vowing, “I want our design not just to be the best in the personal computer industry, but the best in the world.”

No wonder he had prepared so carefully for the Aspen talk—he understood the opportunities and the stakes.

“ We have an opportunity to do it great or to do it so-so. And what a lot of us at Apple are working on is trying to do it great. ”

Back on stage, Steve has returned to his blue notebook. He talks about the computer in the context of other media, the evolution from radio to television to videodisc. He explains how email works, describes drawing with a computer and a mouse, imagines a world in which computers are portable but  have “radio links,” narrates in great detail an interactive map he saw from MIT, tries to explain why computer programs are “archetypal,” and points to the possibility that one day we might be able, in any given situation, to ask a computer, “What would Aristotle have said?”—and get an answer. 

MIT’s Aspen Movie Map, 1978–1980

The examples he offers demystify and catalyze in equal measure; they show what he is seeing, what others are imagining, and how it all fits together with breakthroughs that have come before. This is how Steve viewed innovation throughout his life: a constant accretion of what he called “sedimentary layers,” each one with the potential to raise humanity a bit higher, each generation building on the ideas of its predecessors.

“ So what do you want to talk about? ”

Steve ends his speech and without a pause starts taking questions. Apart from scripted product demonstrations, he always preferred the give-and-take of Q&As over prepared remarks, and this talk is no exception. His formal comments in the blue notebook ran about 20 minutes, but the Q&A will last nearly twice as long. He has developed a rapport with the audience, and their questions cover a wide range of issues: networking, privacy, graphic design, hiring and recruiting, and voice recognition. 

The biggest applause comes when Steve describes “Kids Can’t Wait,” Apple’s program to put a computer in every school in California. This audience of people who have never used computers now want their children to have access to them.

In response to a question about computer-based tools for graphic design, he lays out a much larger core ambition, one that will become a life-long theme. “We’re solving the problems of injecting some liberal arts into these computers,” he says. Computers should include multiple fonts and graphics because they are beautiful in themselves but also because they serve as the gateway to so much more. An engaging, easy-to-understand interface will help draw people to the computer, making it possible for them to discover new ideas and convey their own in new ways and with new tools.

“Where we’ve got to get to,” he says, is a place where no college student would think of writing a paper without a computer, where “people three, four years from now are using these things and they go, ‘Wasn’t this the way it always was?’” This sense of inevitability—so hard won, so hard to describe, and so obvious when achieved—is, for Steve, a hallmark of success. His sedimentary model of innovation works only if each generation takes the existing tools for granted. 

The questions could go on, but Steve looks offstage and prompts, “I don’t know how much time we have?” As the crowd rises to their feet in a standing ovation, Steve picks up his coat off the floor, gives it a shake, and speeds up the aisle and out of the tent. A newspaper will later report, “An undercurrent was felt most of the day Wednesday and part of Thursday over whether Jobs was good or bad—visionary or huckster,” but Steve has no time for such debates. He has come to Aspen to speak but also to learn. Maya Lin, the 23-year-old student architect of the new stark and controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial, is speaking nearby. He wants to hear her talk.

Steve’s Talk

Courtesy of GrassRoots Television

Before and After Steve’s Talk

Steve spoke at the Aspen Conference two other times in addition to his mainstage talk on the morning of June 15, 1983.

The night before, dressed in a leather bomber jacket and a button-down shirt, Steve gave a demonstration of the Lisa computer in what he called a “multimedia show.” That “show” has been lost, as has most of Steve’s presentation, but we have a few minutes of it.

Steve also spent 45 minutes in an informal Q&A session several hours after his mainstage talk. In New Balance sneakers, jeans, and a T-shirt from Ciao!, an Italian restaurant in San Francisco whose logo he loved, he sat backwards astride a metal folding chair and answered questions. Though the video shakes, the wind cuts through the audio, and questions are often muffled, Steve’s thoughts are worth sharing.

Here are a few of our favorite clips.

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Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage

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On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident, given it impacts our ecosystem, we want to provide an update on the steps we’ve taken with CrowdStrike and others to remediate and support our customers.  

Since this event began, we’ve maintained ongoing communication with our customers, CrowdStrike and external developers to collect information and expedite solutions. We recognize the disruption this problem has caused for businesses and in the daily routines of many individuals. Our focus is providing customers with technical guidance and support to safely bring disrupted systems back online. Steps taken have included:  

• Engaging with CrowdStrike to automate their work on developing a solution.   CrowdStrike has recommended a workaround to address this issue and has also issued a public statement. Instructions to remedy the situation on Windows endpoints were posted on the Windows Message Center .   
• Deploying hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts to work directly with customers to restore services.   
• Collaborating with other cloud providers and stakeholders, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), to share awareness on the state of impact we are each seeing across the industry and inform ongoing conversations with CrowdStrike and customers.  
• Quickly posting manual remediation documentation and scripts found here .
• Keeping customers informed of the latest status on the incident through the Azure Status Dashboard here .  

We’re working around the clock and providing ongoing updates and support. Additionally, CrowdStrike has helped us develop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix for CrowdStrike’s faulty update. We have also worked with both AWS and GCP to collaborate on the most effective approaches.    

While software updates may occasionally cause disturbances, significant incidents like the CrowdStrike event are infrequent. We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines. While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services.  

This incident demonstrates the interconnected nature of our broad ecosystem — global cloud providers, software platforms, security vendors and other software vendors, and customers. It’s also a reminder of how important it is for all of us across the tech ecosystem to prioritize operating with safe deployment and disaster recovery using the mechanisms that exist. As we’ve seen over the last two days, we learn, recover and move forward most effectively when we collaborate and work together. We appreciate the cooperation and collaboration of our entire sector, and we will continue to update with learnings and next steps.  

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What we know about the global Microsoft outage

A routine software update caused cascading chaos Friday that has engulfed global businesses from airports and banks to retail and law enforcement.

It wasn’t a cyberattack, but was caused by one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies deploying a flawed update while trying to keep their customers safe from hackers.

CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Texas, that’s widely used by businesses and government agencies that run on Microsoft computers, said that a defect in one of its updates for computers running the Windows operating system had caused the issue. The result was arguably the largest global information technology outage in history. 

Here’s what we know:

What has been affected?

The outage appeared to affect almost every major business sector in one way or another.

Airports and flights across the world were severely delayed or canceled altogether, as the computers on which these services rely were disrupted by the issue. Three of the largest airlines in the United States — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines — all issued ground stops, citing communications problems.

Long lines snaked through airports from Berlin to Hong Kong, as electronic systems failed and staff members resorted to checking in passengers manually. One flier in the Indian city of Hyderabad posted a picture of a curiosity usually unseen in the modern digital age: a handwritten boarding pass.

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The issue also affected banks, leaving some customers unable to access their money. People across Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere reported problems logging into their accounts at major retail banks. Meanwhile the London Stock Exchange, the largest of its kind in Europe, said some of its services had been disrupted although trading had not been impeded.

In retail, McDonald’s closed some of its stores in Japan because of what it said in an online statement was a “cash register malfunction.” And the British grocery chain Waitrose was forced to put up handwritten notes informing customers that it was only accepting cash. Some Starbucks locations temporarily closed after the company's mobile ordering system went down, while other locations stayed open and left their baristas scrambling to come up with new workflows.

Baltic Hub, a global shipping terminal in Poland, said in a statement it had been battling issues related to the outage. The Alaska State Troopers agency was among the law enforcement agencies to report issues, warning people that 911 was temporarily not working. And the British broadcaster Sky News, which is owned by NBCUniversal's parent company, Comcast, was briefly knocked off the air.

Some computers that were not on during the software update appear to have avoided the issue, according to initial reports.

What caused it?

Cybersecurity programs like CrowdStrike’s frequently and automatically update themselves to account for new tactics that malicious hackers have discovered. And there’s always a slight risk that any software update will be incompatible with other programs.

CrowdStrike’s update should have been routine, but an error in its code conflicted with Windows and proved catastrophic.

The company’s CEO, George Kurtz , said Friday morning on the "TODAY" show that while some customers would see their computers fixed automatically, others would require manual work to fix.

“The system was sent an update, and that update had a software bug in it and caused an issue with the Microsoft operating system,” Kurtz said. “Our systems are always looking for the latest attacks from these adversaries that are out there.”

How long until things go back to normal?

CrowdStrike identified the problem and issued a fix early Friday after the problem began to emerge. On Friday afternoon, Kurtz released a statement apologizing for the outage, adding that CrowdStrike was “operating normally.”

The fix required affected computers to download another software update, which some have been able to do automatically.

Many companies and services affected by the chaos, such as the New Hampshire Department of Safety, which said its 911 system was briefly down, reported that they were back online by Friday morning. 

Others haven’t been able to load the update, which would potentially require IT workers at some companies to reboot and tinker with every single affected computer.

“Many of the customers are rebooting the system, and it’s coming up, and it’ll be operational because we fixed it on our end,” Kurtz said. “Some of the systems that aren’t recovering, we’re working with them. So it could be some time for some systems that just automatically won’t recover.”

Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.

Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.

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What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos

A faulty software update issued by security giant CrowdStrike has resulted in a massive overnight outage that’s affected Windows computers around the world , disrupting businesses, airports, train stations, banks, broadcasters and the healthcare sector.

CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, but was the result of a “defect” in a software update for its flagship security product, Falcon Sensor. The defect caused any Windows computers that Falcon is installed on to crash without fully loading.

“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” said CrowdStrike in a statement on Friday . Some businesses and organizations are beginning to recover, but many expect the outages to drag on into the weekend or next week given the complexity of the fix. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told NBC News that it may take “some time for some systems that just automatically won’t recover.” In a later tweet , Kurtz apologized for the disruption.

Here’s everything you need to know about the outages.

What happened?

Late Thursday into Friday, reports began to emerge of IT problems wherein Windows computers were getting stuck with the infamous “blue screen of death” — a bright blue error screen with a message that displays when Windows encounters a critical failure, crashes or cannot load.

The outages were first noticed in Australia early on Friday, and reports quickly came in from the rest of Asia and Europe as the regions began their day, as well as the United States.

Within a short time, CrowdStrike confirmed that a software update for Falcon had malfunctioned and was causing Windows computers that had the software installed to crash. Falcon lets CrowdStrike remotely analyze and check for malicious threats and malware on installed computers.

At around the same time, Microsoft reported a significant outage at one of its most used Azure cloud regions covering much of the central United States. A spokesperson for Microsoft told TechCrunch that its outage was unrelated to CrowdStrike’s incident .

Around Friday noon (Eastern time), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X saying the company is aware of the CrowdStrike botched update and is “working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.”

What is CrowdStrike and what does Falcon Sensor do?

CrowdStrike, founded in 2011, has quickly grown into a cybersecurity giant. Today the company provides software and services to 29,000 corporate customers, including around half of Fortune 500 companies, 43 out of 50 U.S. states and eight out of the top 10 tech firms, according to its website .

The company’s cybersecurity software, Falcon, is used by enterprises to manage security on millions of computers around the world. These businesses include large corporations, hospitals, transportation hubs and government departments. Most consumer devices do not run Falcon and are unaffected by this outage.

One of the company’s biggest recent claims to fame was when it caught a group of Russian government hackers breaking into the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. CrowdStrike is also known for using memorable animal-themed names for the hacking groups it tracks based on their nationality, such as: Fancy Bear , believed to be part of Russia’s General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU; Cozy Bear , believed to be part of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR; Gothic Panda , believed to be a Chinese government group; and Charming Kitten , believed to be an Iranian state-backed group. The company even makes action figures to represent these groups, which it sells as swag .

CrowdStrike is so big it’s one of the sponsors of the Mercedes F1 team , and this year even aired a Super Bowl ad — a first for a cybersecurity company. 

Who are the outages affecting?

Practically anyone who during their everyday life interacts with a computer system running software from CrowdStrike is affected, even if the computer isn’t theirs. 

These devices include the cash registers at grocery stores, departure boards at airports and train stations, school computers, your work-issued laptops and desktops, airport check-in systems, airlines’ own ticketing and scheduling platforms, healthcare networks and many more. Because CrowdStrike’s software is so ubiquitous, the outages are causing chaos around the world in a variety of ways. A single affected Windows computer in a fleet of systems could be enough to disrupt the network. 

TechCrunch reporters around the world are seeing and experiencing outages, including at points of travel, doctors’ offices and online. Early on Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration put in effect a ground stop, effectively grounding flights across the United States, citing the disruption. It looks like so far the national Amtrak rail network is functioning as normal. 

What is the U.S. government doing so far?

Given that the problem stems from a company, there isn’t much that the U.S. federal government can do. According to a pool report, President Biden was briefed on the CrowdStrike outage, and “his team is in touch with CrowdStrike and impacted entities.” That’s in large part because the federal government is a customer of CrowdStrike and also affected.

Several federal agencies are affected by the incident, including the Department of Education , and Social Security Administration, which said Friday that it closed its offices as a result of the outage.

The pool report said Biden’s team is “engaged across the interagency to get sector by sector updates throughout the day and is standing by to provide assistance as needed.” 

In a separate tweet, Homeland Security said it was working with its U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, CrowdStrike and Microsoft — as well as its federal, state, local and critical infrastructure partners — to “fully assess and address system outages.”

There will no doubt be questions for CrowdStrike (and to some extent Microsoft, whose unrelated outage also caused disruption overnight for its customers) from government and congressional investigators. 

For now, the immediate focus will be on the recovery of affected systems.

How do affected customers fix their Windows computers?

The major problem here is that CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor software malfunctioned, causing Windows machines to crash, and there’s no easy way to fix that. 

So far, CrowdStrike has issued a patch, and it has also detailed a workaround that could help affected systems function normally until it has a permanent solution. One option is for users to “reboot the [affected computer] to give it an opportunity to download the reverted channel file,” referring to the fixed file.

In a message to users , CrowdStrike detailed a few steps customers can take, one of which requires physical access to an affected system to remove the defective file. CrowdStrike says users should boot the computer into Safe Mode or Windows Recovery Environment, navigate to the CrowdStrike directory, and delete the faulty file “C-00000291*.sys.”

The wider problem with having to fix the file manually could be a major headache for companies and organizations with large numbers of computers, or Windows-powered servers in datacenters or locations that might be in another region, or an entirely different country.

CISA warns that malicious actors are ‘taking advantage’ of the outage

In a statement on Friday, CISA attributed the outages to the faulty CrowdStrike update and that the issue was not due to a cyberattack. CISA said that it was “working closely with CrowdStrike and federal, state, local, tribal and territorial partners, as well as critical infrastructure and international partners to assess impacts and support remediation efforts.”

CISA did note, however, that it has “observed threat actors taking advantage of this incident for phishing and other malicious activity.” The cybersecurity agency did not provide more specifics, but warned organizations to stay vigilant.

Malicious actors can and will exploit confusion and chaos to carry out cyberattacks on their own. Rachel Tobac, a social engineering expert and founder of cybersecurity firm SocialProof Security, said in a series of posts on X to “verify people are who they say they are before taking sensitive actions.”

“Criminals will attempt to use this IT outage to pretend to be IT to you or you to IT to steal access, passwords, codes, etc.,” Tobac said.

What do we know about misinformation so far?

It’s easy to understand why some might have thought that this outage was a cyberattack. Sudden outages, blue screens at airports, office computers filled with error messages, and chaos and confusion. As you might expect, a fair amount of misinformation is already flying around , even as social media sites incorrectly flag trending topics like “cyberattack.”

Remember to check official sources of news and information, and if something seems too good to be true, it might just well be.

TechCrunch will keep this report updated throughout the day.

TechCrunch’s Ram Iyer contributed reporting.

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Chaos and Confusion: Tech Outage Causes Disruptions Worldwide

Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.

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By Adam Satariano Paul Mozur Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel

• July 19, 2024

Airlines grounded flights. Operators of 911 lines could not respond to emergencies. Hospitals canceled surgeries. Retailers closed for the day. And the actions all traced back to a batch of bad computer code.

A flawed software update sent out by a little-known cybersecurity company caused chaos and disruption around the world on Friday. The company, CrowdStrike , based in Austin, Texas, makes software used by multinational corporations, government agencies and scores of other organizations to protect against hackers and online intruders.

But when CrowdStrike sent its update on Thursday to its customers that run Microsoft Windows software, computers began to crash.

The fallout, which was immediate and inescapable, highlighted the brittleness of global technology infrastructure. The world has become reliant on Microsoft and a handful of cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike. So when a single flawed piece of software is released over the internet, it can almost instantly damage countless companies and organizations that depend on the technology as part of everyday business.

“This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world’s core internet infrastructure,” said Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center and a professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

A cyberattack did not cause the widespread outage, but the effects on Friday showed how devastating the damage can be when a main artery of the global technology system is disrupted. It raised broader questions about CrowdStrike’s testing processes and what repercussions such software firms should face when flaws in their code cause major disruptions.

How a Software Update Crashed Computers Around the World

Here’s a visual explanation for how a faulty software update crippled machines.

How the airline cancellations rippled around the world (and across time zones)

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