ASPI Senior Analyst Malcolm Davis says the “longer” Joe Biden stays in the presidential race the “worse” it will get for the Democratic Party. “But there’s no clear path as to who replaces Biden if he does decide to step aside,” he told Sky News Australia. “So that in itself adds to the Democrats’ woes.”

ASPI Senior Analyst Malcolm Davis says CrowdStrike’s outage has a “knock-on effect” in terms of restoring IT systems. “For all the financial comapnies trying to find lost data, stock markets went down – how much that affected economies and lost money is really an interesting question,” he told Sky News Australia. “The financial implications of this are very severe and ongoing.”

Melbourne University Computing and IT Lecturer Suelette Dreyfus says “everything is interconnected” and that outages like CrowdStrike’s global one can happen again. “It shows us in a sense how dependent we are – to these supply chains of services such as providing extra security notifications on networks,” she told Sky News Australia. “Everything is interconnected.”

Melbourne University Computing and IT Lecturer Suelette Dreyfus says CrowdStrike’s outage shows “how easily” Australia’s tech systems can be brought down. “It’s just given a really good indication – and this wasn’t even an attack – how easily our systems can be brought down if we’re not careful,” she told Sky News Australia. On Friday, operations at some of Australia’s biggest companies were thrown into chaos for hours from an update which was rolled out by CrowdStrike which instead resulted in an IT blackout.

Wildlife experts warn urgent action must be taken to prevent an ecological catastrophe. A strain of bird flu different to the one affecting Australian chicken farms has killed hundreds of thousands of animals overseas. There are grave concerns it will arrive in Australia and wipe out entire species.

Former US president Donald Trump says he has held a “very good call” with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. In a post on Truth Social, the Republican presidential candidate says Mr Zelensky condemned the assassination attempt against him. He added that if he wins the presidential election, he will end the war with Russia. “Both sides will be able to come together and negotiate a deal that ends the violence and paves a path forward to prosperity,” Mr Trump said.

Melbourne University Computering and IT Lecturer Suelette Dreyfus says the CrowdStrike outage serves as a “wake up call” to Australians. “We are pretty dependent on these types of security software that exist mostly in larger organisations,” she told Sky News Australia “But most of us have never heard of these brands.”

Tech Guide editor Stephen Fenech says the major outage caused by a CrowdStrike content update has “taken its toll” worldwide. An unprecedented global IT outage which knocked down systems around the world is still being felt with calamitous effects. “Hopefully they will learn, CrowdStrike have come out and are so apologetic about it, but I think they should take some learnings out of this,” Mr Fenech told Sky News Australia.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone strike near a branch of the US embassy in central Tel Aviv. The attack left one person dead and at least 10 more injured. Houthi militants have attributed the strike as part of their campaign of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank and East Jerusalem violates international law. The ICJ says Israel must end the construction of new settlements but the binding is non-binding. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on X that the Jewish people are “not occupiers in their own land”.

Former Secret Service agent Tim Miller has called for the Secret Service to “step up and accept responsibility and make major changes”. Crowds of mourners have gathered in Pennsylvania to farewell Corey Comperatore – the father of two who died in last week’s assassination attempt of Donald Trump. “My hope and prayers of what comes out of this is something that is substantial in terms of changes,” Mr Miller told Sky News Australia. “We need to be hiring the brightest, the best, the strongest, the fastest to protect the leader of the free world.”

Former Secret Service agent Tim Miller discusses Donald Trump’s decision to “stop and acknowledge the crowd” during the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally. Crowds of mourners have gathered in Pennsylvania to farewell Corey Comperatore – the father of two who died in last week’s assassination attempt of Donald Trump. “Former president Trump wanted to assure the American people that despite trying to be murdered, he was standing strong,” Mr Miller told Sky News Australia.

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has apologised for the global IT outage caused by a failed software update for Windows. “We know what the issue is, we are resolving and have resolved the issue now,” Mr Kurtz said. “It is our mission ... to make sure that every customer is fully recovered and we are not going to relent until we get every customer back to where they were.” CrowdStrike shares are down roughly 18 per cent as a result of the tech outage.

An unprecedented global IT outage which knocked down systems around the world is still being felt after its calamitous effects. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says the outage was caused by an update it pushed for Windows. CrowdStrike shares are down roughly 18 per cent as a result of the worldwide tech outage.

Sky News Business Reporter Ed Boyd says CrowdStrike shares are down roughly 18 per cent as a result of the worldwide tech outage. The tech outage is believed to have been caused by a flawed anti-viral update from US cyber security company CrowdStrike. Mr Boyd said with the outage trouble, CrowdStrike’s growth targets “may not be reached”.

Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton has slammed media for spreading a Project 2025 conspiracy about Donald Trump’s policy platform. “At a time when the world leaders have called for calmer discourse and less inflammatory hyperbole, our national broadcaster has published a truly extraordinary on Donald Trump,” Mr Houghton said. “It was called Retribution. “The major issue is an attempt to attribute the policy of a conservative think tank with Donald Trump’s policy platform.”

Sky News Business Reporter Ed Boyd says CrowdStrike’s outage is a “global issue” affecting businesses worldwide. A major worldwide tech outage, believed to have been caused by a flawed anti-viral update from US cyber security company CrowdStrike, has plunged many of the world's largest companies into crisis. “This is a global issue that is affecting businesses all around the world,” Mr Boyd told Sky News Australia.

Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton has criticised left-wing media outlets for their “inaccurate” or “watered-down” coverage in the minutes following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. “Many of the biggest newsrooms in the world have been criticised after publishing watered-down or just simply inaccurate versions of events in the minutes following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump,” Mr Houghton said.

Sky News Business Reporter Ed Boyd says CrowdStrike is “down about 13.5 per cent” in after-hours trading after a major worldwide tech outage. A major worldwide tech outage, believed to have been caused by a flawed anti-viral update from US cyber security company CrowdStrike, has plunged many of the world's largest companies into crisis. “The company that is at the source of this problem is CrowdStrike – founded in 2011 by CEO and founder George Kurtz,” Mr Boyd told Sky News Australia. “Just looking at CrowdStrike itself: it’s listed on the Nasdaq in the United States … and we can have a look at after-hours trading. “Right now, obviously, the market is closed, but investors are making bets on where the share price will go when the market opens later tonight in New York. “Just crunching the numbers, the shares are currently down about 13.5 per cent in after-hours trading, which is a massive fall in any company’s share price.”

Donald Trump addresses the assassination attempt he faced at a Pennsylvania rally and the chart he was showing. “Without that chart, I would not be here today,” he said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.