text:  Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A massive IT outage is still affecting industries and government services around the globe, from banks to flights. The cybersecurity company CrowdStrike blames the cascading disruptions on a defect found in a single content update for Windows. In a posting this afternoon on the social media platform X, the CEO of Microsoft says the tech giant's working closely with CrowdStrike to provide technical guidance and support to clients.