Ars Technica has a little more detail on the cause, according to their reporting the digital broadcast from KUOW included an image file without an extension, the older Mazda infotainment system could not use the image headers to identify the type and relied on file extensions resulting in a crash, that then resulted in another crash on reboot, endlessly looping.
On the plus side apparently they are offering to replace the $1500 broken part for free, on the downside they have no parts available so the offer is for when they have the replacement parts available.
