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Global tech outage causing chaos at airports, businesses

July 19, 2024 · 2:43pm ET | 11:43am PT
  • Chicago Sun-Times

A global computer systems outage related to Microsoft Windows led to widespread issues at airports, banks, hospitals and other businesses Friday morning.

Travelers at airports around the world, including O’Hare Airport, arrived Friday morning to see “blue screens of death” and long lines after what was described as a faulty update was deployed to computers running Microsoft software.