{"podcast":{"title":"Technology Pill","slug":"technology-pill-560921","podcast_index_feed_id":560921,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/3448418/3448418-1610538873523-a8397ebe0012e.jpg","author":"Privacy International","episode_count":104,"summary":"Find out how technology is reshaping our lives every day and explore the new powers of governments and companies.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T00:17:47.008339+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921"},"episode":{"title":"Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story","slug":"crash-8-5-million-computers-with-this-one-weird-trick-a-crowdstrike-story","published_at":"2025-03-14T14:54:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/crash-8-5-million-computers-with-this-one-weird-trick-a-crowdstrike-story","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill/episodes/Crash-8-5-million-computers-with-this-one-weird-trick-A-CrowdStrike-story-e305mmm","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/play/99850390/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-2-14%2F396569143-44100-2-d8ed47b871bd5.m4a","summary":"This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to crash. Links - Read our in-depth article about what happened and what it tells us about the security and robustness of the modern internet - Find more about the 911 outages across several US states - CrowdStrike's own review of the problem - Our podcast on the XZ exploit - Facebook VPN exploitation - The philosopher Caitlin was thinking of was Paul Virilio","meta_description":"This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows to c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2066,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/technology-pill-560921/episodes/crash-8-5-million-computers-with-this-one-weird-trick-a-crowdstrike-story/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/crash-8-5-million-computers-with-this-one-weird-trick-a-crowdstrike-story.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}