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FCC post-mortem on AT&T outage uncovers similar QA issues to those that plagued CrowdStrike

Network World

A February AT&T network outage that lasted 12 hours and affected all of its mobile network users was due to a misconfiguration that occurred during a “routine night maintenance” that failed to meet required quality assurance (QA) policies before it was deployed, according to a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) post-mortem report.

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6 insights every CIO should take away from the CrowdStrike debacle

CIO Business Intelligence

But before we can even get started: It appears that, no matter how appealing the story, Southwest Airlines wasn’t immune to the CrowdStrike bug because its servers run on Windows 3.1. For an in-depth view, see “ No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1 — OSnews.”) Maybe you could do it, but it would be just as crash-prone.

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Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned

CIO Business Intelligence

Millions of computers globally running Microsoft Windows crashed and displayed the “ blue screen of death ” error message. Noting that CrowdStrike has been accused by some of having a monopoly in the industry, Mainiero says that this incident was a quality assurance issue. Roman echoed that, saying, “We’re all human beings.

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Tech Moves: iSpot’s new CTO; VMWare exec returns to Microsoft; Expedia CFO to resign

GeekWire

Dureja will oversee engineering, quality assurance, infrastructure, security and data science teams at iSpot. She will lead a team working on global strategies for Windows Commercial, including work creating a new category of Copilot+ PCs focused on AI capabilities.

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BNY Mellon’s Joseph Sieczkowski: cloud removes opportunity cost

CIO Business Intelligence

This included enhancing our designs, our standards, our controls, quality assurance, as well as the governance and tollgates around it. This includes scaling during market events, avoiding missing windows, avoiding missing service-level agreements. How cloud bolsters resilience: BNY Mellon has a very strong resiliency posture.

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OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris

GeekWire

An image taken from OceanGate’s Titan submersible shows the frame of a stained-glass window from the Titanic shipwreck. Scott Griffith, OceanGate’s director of logistics and quality assurance, was the co-pilot. OceanGate Photo). After years of building, testing and dealing with setbacks, Everett, Wash.-based

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Microsoft commits to fix Xbox Series X controller disconnects in a future update

The Verge

And if you’re experiencing controller disconnects on a Windows PC over Bluetooth (rather than an Xbox console), there may already be a fix for that. There’s a Windows Update you can download.