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A massive outage related to a security update by CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, crippled airlines and other businesses on Friday. By David McCabe and Kate Conger An outage that crippled ...

Christmas time means packing up your daily troubles, forgetting work for a week, and heading home to … troubleshoot your parents’ broken computers and gadgets? Oh man, is it that time of year again ...

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 ...

A new recovery tool from Microsoft helps speed up the process to fix computers affected by the faulty CrowdStrike update. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ...

I’m pretty good at fixing computer problems — both hardware and software. But don’t think I’m bragging. I arrive at this state honestly, leaving a trail of horribly damaged computers and forever ...