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Faulty CrowdStrike software update. Outcome. ~8.5 million Microsoft Windows operating systems crash worldwide, causing global disruption of critical services. On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows ...
Former Roblox headquarters, now occupied by Guidewire Software. Roblox Corporation ( / ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006. As of December 31, 2023, the company employs ...
Other companies affected by the collapse include video game developer Roblox Corporation, video hosting service Vimeo, [115] and payroll processor, Rippling. [116] [117] More than 1,500 climate change–related technology startups had taken out loans or had lines of credit with Silicon Valley Bank.
Roblox, which operates a metaverse – a virtual place where people play and make transactions - gets 66 million daily users and is available on mobile devices, desktops, and Microsoft's Xbox.
CrowdStrike has released a fix for its software and is actively pushing it out to customers. But that doesn’t mean every company will get back online right away.
According to Andrews, Roblox has "misrepresented the safety of its platform to hundreds of millions of users." Ordoñez warns parents to watch for three main risks: Inappropriate content: While ...
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [36] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [43] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash is the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.