I suspect that “Oops!” will not be an adequate response. What happened to testing updates on a standalone system first?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201864/crowdstrike-outage-explained-microsoft-windows-bsod

What is CrowdStrike, and what happened?

… The July 19th outage is tied to CrowdStrike’s flagship Falcon platform, a cloud-based solution that combines multiple security solutions into a single hub, including antivirus capabilities, endpoint protection, threat detection, and real-time monitoring to prevent unauthorized access to a company’s system.

The update in question appears to have installed faulty software onto the core Windows operating system, causing systems to get stuck in a boot loop. Systems are showing an error message that says, “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly,” while giving users the option to try troubleshooting methods or restart the PC.

Tools & Techniques. Perhaps this could be useful for more than homework…

https://www.makeuseof.com/notebooklm-google-ai-custom-language-model-supercharge-my-studies/

How I Use Google's Custom Language Model to Supercharge My Studies

Google has a little-known AI tool called NotebookLM that’s perfect for students. It’s a free tool that uses Google Gemini to power its processing and output. NotebookLM can be a bit complicated to use effectively, but you can use it to supercharge your studies and research.

NotebookLM is a self-contained large language model (LLM) that uses the notes and documents you provide as sources. When you upload files—PDFs, Google Drive documents, web URLs, and more—it creates a summary of each source, which you can read by clicking on the source in the left menu.