Why a Cloudflare Outage Can Take Down the Internet

If you went on the internet Tuesday morning, you likely experienced some issues. Popular sites like X and ChatGPT were unresponsive, returning error messages rather than their usual homepages. The culprit? A massive Cloudflare outage.The upside is that the outage appears to be ending. Cloudflare say

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite was originally released in 2020, but it was revamped in 2022, and then again in 2024 for a third time with a better processor. Right now, you can

How I Turned My Laptop Into a Distraction-Free Writing Device

There are plenty of distractions to deal with in our modern digital age—see if you can manage to get all the way through this article without turning your attention elsewhere at least once, for example. All that surrounding noise can make it difficult to stick to the task at hand, and actually get s

ChatGPT, X, and Other Sites Affected During the Cloudflare Outage

On Tuesday morning, much of the internet was inaccessible. If you tried to follow your feeds on X, or engage with ChatGPT, you were only met with error messages. Compare those error messages to one another, however, and you'd likely notice a similar name affixed to them all: Cloudflare. Cloudflare's