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TIL in 2010, McAfee deployed a defective update to their corporate customers that took critical devices offline and required manual work to remediate. Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, was CTO of McAfee at the time.

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R5nb6 TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) took a single wicket during his brief first class Cricket career - that of the famed W. G. Grace - and he was so elated at the achievement that he wrote a poem about it.
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