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Microsoft outage takes out banks, airlines and businesses | First Thing
Good morning. Businesses including banks, airlines, telecoms companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline by a Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Experts are calling the outage “an unprecedented …