Roundup: Tech outage impacts global businesses, services

GENEVA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- A widespread technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted banking operations, and took media outlets off the air, highlighting the global dependence on a few key software providers.

CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm at the heart of the global outage, identified a defect in its Falcon software update as the cause but stressed that the incident was not due to a security breac