What we learned: Monday 22 July
Thanks for following along the day’s rolling news updates. Here are the headlines you might have missed:
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, thanked the US president, Joe Biden, for his “leadership and ongoing service” as Biden announced he would withdraw from the US presidential race. Albanese also called Kamala Harris (who has been endorsed to run for president by Biden) a “good friend of Australia”.
Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull joined the discourse, adding: “America under Trump is a less reliable ally than it has been under Biden or under other presidents”.
Sites in Wollongong and Lake Macquarie, south of Sydney, have been selected to trial pre-built modular homes in a bid to boost social housing stocks.
Sydney’s housing market will remain unaffordable until at least the 2030s, according to new research from the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology Sydney. It also found that having a stable and regular income is no longer enough to comfortably enter the housing market anywhere in Sydney.
An enhanced strike missile has been successfully fired for the first time from an Australian destroyer as the navy boosts its firepower, to replace the ageing Harpoon weapon system on Australian destroyers.
That is all for tonight. See you back on the live blog tomorrow.
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Significant number of devices taken offline by CrowdStrike now back online
A “significant” number of the 8.5m devices affected by last week’s global IT outage are back online, according to the cybersecurity company at the centre of the incident.
CrowdStrike said it was also testing a new technique to reboot systems more rapidly, amid warnings from experts that a full recovery from Friday’s IT failure could take weeks.
On Friday, thousands of flights were cancelled, broadcasters were forced off air, healthcare appointments disrupted and millions of PCs failed to start after a CrowdStrike software update inadvertently crippled devices using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
CrowdStrike wrote in a social media update that it had made progress in fixing the consequences of a glitch that, according to one expert, had caused “the largest IT outage in history”.
“Of the approximately 8.5 million Windows devices that were impacted, a significant number are back online and operational,” the US company said.
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