Not sure how to resolve the antithesis thing as I don't know what that is. Any opinions?

As for what antithesis is, I believe it refers to this product: https://antithesis.com/

As for resolution, it's entirely subjective imho

I have no way of judging this. resolved N/A

Cyber-analysis firm CyberCube has estimated that the outage resulted in $15 billion worth of losses globally. Considering the smaller companies, the firm stated that insurance would only cover between three to ten percent of the losses.

https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/endpoint-security/news/crowdstrike-outage-costs-billions-insurance-estimates/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/24/crowdstrike-outage-companies-cost seems like estimates are in for total damage.

CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/

Mistake, not hacking, is what I infer from the new incident review

https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317

Retweeted by Crowdstrike official account too - https://x.com/CrowdStrike

"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. ... This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed."

Can It be an accident without it being due to incompetence? E.g. if they accidentally released a bugged version isn't that also a sign of incompetence (there was no QA involved)?

Good question. Probably, most mistakes would be attributable to incompetence, but there could be sudden mistakes and bugs that are entirely outside of the control of the involved actors.