What we know about the global tech outage

 NY Times update

CNN - Flights around the world were grounded today after a global computer outage hit airlines and businesses. Major US carriers including Delta, United and American Airlines have been impacted, resulting in widespread delays and cancellations. The outage appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts tell CNN. The firm said the issue that caused airlines to ground flights was "not a security incident or cyberattack" and a fix has been deployed. Banks and telecom companies in Australia and New Zealand have also been affected, while Israel's hospitals 

Guardian -  There had been more than 1,000 flight cancellations worldwide so far due to the IT failure, according to the aviation analysis firm Cirium...Troy Hunt, a leading cybersecurity consultant, said the scale of the IT failure was unprecedented.“I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history,” he wrote on X. “This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time.”