Morning Headlines 7/22/24
Augmedix to Join Forces with Commure
Commure will acquire ambient medical documentation system vendor Augmedix in an all-cash, take-private transaction that values the company at $139 million.
Faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows computers around the globe
Hospitals around the globe work to recover from IT outages that started Friday when a CrowdStrike cybersecurity update flaw triggered the Windows “blue screen of death.”
Oracle settles privacy lawsuit for $115M
Oracle will pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit that charged the company with violating website user privacy by tracking user browsing activity and compiling it into a profile that it sold via its Oracle Data Marketplace.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.