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Chrome update breaks Hollywood editors’ Mac Pros

As reported by Variety, a data corruption error that caused Mac Pro workstations to become unusable started affecting Hollywood studios on Monday. Video editors found that their machines were refusing to reboot, and while it was initially suspected that Avid’s Media Composer software was the problem, seeing as it was present on all the Macs, Google later confirmed the error was the result of a Chrome update.

“We recently discovered that a Chrome update may have shipped with a bug that damages the file system on macOS machines,” wrote a Google support employee.

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