ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Today on the flagship podcast of configuration changes:
The Verge's Tom Warren joins the show to to talk about the story and legacy of the CrowdStrike crash.
- CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage
- Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters
- What is CrowdStrike, and what happened?
- CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft
- CrowdStrike outage: Photos, videos, and tales of IT workers fixing BSODs
Then we talk with The Verge's Victoria Song and Zombies, Run creator Adrian Hon about making exercising fun without making it competitive and awful.
- Zombies, Run
- Adrian Hon’s Substack
- Finally, the Apple Watch will let you rest
- This walking app let me whack my co-workers with a baseball bat
- Ignore your fitness tracker and walk to Mordor instead
Finally, we answer a hotline question about handheld gadgets for new parents — because there's a lot of time to kill when there's a baby around.
- Backbone One review: the best mobile gaming controller yet
- Handheld consoles are the future of gaming
- Holedown
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