Global tech outage 'biggest in history'
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A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected technologies. Speaking to France 24, Dan Ives, senior equity analyst at WedBush Securities, called it the "biggest IT outage in the history of the world".