
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


We built a world we can't control. ⛈️💻 We investigate two catastrophic failures of modern technology: the CrowdStrike Outage that grounded global air travel and the controversial Dubai Cloud Seeding floods that sparked a geopolitical storm.
1. The $5.4 Billion Typo: We break down the CrowdStrike disaster. A single faulty kernel update ("Channel File 291") crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, costing Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in direct losses. We explain why this wasn't a hack but a failure of "software quality" in a centralized digital monoculture, where one vendor's mistake can take down hospitals and airlines worldwide.
2. Hacking the Sky: Did Dubai flood itself? We analyze the massive April 2024 floods in the UAE and the viral rumors that Cloud Seeding was to blame. While experts say the storm was likely natural climate change, we explore the massive "Sky River" geoengineering projects in China and the growing geopolitical risk of nations 'stealing' each other's rain.
3. The "God Complex" Risk: Whether it's the global IT stack or the global weather system, we are intervening in complex systems we don't fully understand. We (again) discuss the "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" mentality applied to the physical world: implementing tech fixes today that might cause catastrophic cascades tomorrow.
By MorgrainWe built a world we can't control. ⛈️💻 We investigate two catastrophic failures of modern technology: the CrowdStrike Outage that grounded global air travel and the controversial Dubai Cloud Seeding floods that sparked a geopolitical storm.
1. The $5.4 Billion Typo: We break down the CrowdStrike disaster. A single faulty kernel update ("Channel File 291") crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, costing Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in direct losses. We explain why this wasn't a hack but a failure of "software quality" in a centralized digital monoculture, where one vendor's mistake can take down hospitals and airlines worldwide.
2. Hacking the Sky: Did Dubai flood itself? We analyze the massive April 2024 floods in the UAE and the viral rumors that Cloud Seeding was to blame. While experts say the storm was likely natural climate change, we explore the massive "Sky River" geoengineering projects in China and the growing geopolitical risk of nations 'stealing' each other's rain.
3. The "God Complex" Risk: Whether it's the global IT stack or the global weather system, we are intervening in complex systems we don't fully understand. We (again) discuss the "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" mentality applied to the physical world: implementing tech fixes today that might cause catastrophic cascades tomorrow.