Cloudflare outage takes X, ChatGPT and other major sites offline A major Cloudflare outage has triggered a global internet disruption, knocking offline some of the world’s most heavily used websites. The likes of X, ChatGPT, Canva and major online services have gone dark, in what has quickly become one of the largest internet failures of the year. The issue began on Tuesday morning and escalated [...]
‘Sower of chaos’ – Russia behind UK cyberattacks, says Cloudflare boss Tech The recent spate of cyberattacks that have crippled British firms is largely being carried out by Russia, which used the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza as a “cover story” to deflect attention, the boss of one of the world’s largest cybersecurity firms has said. Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told City AM that the [...]
The man on a mission to save the internet Media Search engines and publishers used to operate on a simple deal: publishers would let the likes of Google trawl their site, and in return Google would give them traffic. With the advent of AI, that deal is all but dead, leaving the internet’s old model under existential threat. Ali Lyon meets Matthew Prince, the man [...]