Internet crash today 19/7/24

[Nick]

But why did CrowdStrike put the 'fix' out World wide?  Was it just arrogance not to try it small scale locally as most cautious folks would do?

The actual fix is trivial and was issued within about an hour, so those systems that were still connected and weren't crashing fixed themselves. The problem was that some folk a) didn't have access as their systems kept crashing, and b) the trade press was on to them about what the fix was. It's not a big deal.