TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week’s major tech outage?

A defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor caused Windows endpoints at many organizations to crash, triggering a global outage that impacted airports, banks, and healthcare systems; while consumer devices were largely unaffected, the disruption reached across CrowdStrike’s 29,000 customers—including half of the Fortune 500, 43 U.S. states, and major tech firms—spurring scrutiny over how a single software issue led to such widespread effects.