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Numerous passengers wait in front of a black display board at the capital’s Berlin Brandenburg Airport, in Schönefeld, Germany, Friday July 19, 2024. Air traffic has been suspended at BER Airport. A widespread Microsoft outage was disrupting flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world on Friday. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
Flights have been cancelled and TV stations have been taken online in a drastic computer outage.
Windows PCs on Friday inexplicably started showing a “blue screen of death” error that left them unusable.