Topic: internet infrastructure
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Internet Rebounds After Major Cloudflare Outage
A major Cloudflare network outage disrupted numerous high-traffic websites and services, including X, ChatGPT, and Amazon Web Services, due to its critical role in web infrastructure. The outage was caused by an internal configuration error that created an oversized file, leading to software fail...
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Cloudflare Outage Knocks X Offline After Musk's AWS Taunt
A major Cloudflare outage disrupted access to numerous popular websites and applications, highlighting the internet's vulnerability due to reliance on a few key infrastructure providers. Elon Musk faced irony as his platform X was affected, shortly after he had publicly mocked a competitor's outa...
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Cloudflare Outage Linked to React2Shell Mitigation Efforts
A widespread Cloudflare outage was caused by an emergency security patch for a critical, actively exploited vulnerability (React2Shell/CVE-2025-55182) in React Server Components, not by a cyberattack. The update, intended to block exploitation attempts, inadvertently failed and disrupted about 28...
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AI Bot Surge Ignites Online Arms Race
AI bots are projected to drive the majority of internet traffic, shifting the web from a human-centric to a bot-dominated landscape and introducing new challenges beyond copyright. A technological arms race is escalating as sophisticated AI bots increasingly circumvent website security to scrape ...
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Official AI Licensing Standard Now Requires Payment for Scraping
The Really Simple Licensing 1.0 (RSL) standard allows publishers to set rules and require payment from AI companies that scrape their web content, evolving beyond the basic access controls of robots.txt files. Supported by major infrastructure firms like Cloudflare, RSL enables publishers to sele...
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36 New Tech Unicorns Emerged in 2025 So Far
In 2025, 36 new unicorn startups emerged across diverse sectors like AI, robotics, healthcare, fintech, and space tech, each surpassing $1 billion valuations. Notable unicorns included Linear ($1.25B), Gecko Robotics ($1.62B), and Thinking Machines ($10B), with AI, healthcare, and fintech driving...
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Cloudflare Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests in 6 Months
Cloudflare blocked 416 billion AI bot requests in six months, highlighting a fundamental shift in data collection driven by large language models and its efforts to reshape the web's economics. The company's CEO argues AI is a "platform shift" altering the internet's core business model, forcing ...
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AI Ignites the Next Generation of Browser Wars
OpenAI's Atlas browser, powered by ChatGPT, introduces natural language web surfing and autonomous task completion, marking a significant shift in browser technology. Security vulnerabilities in Atlas could compromise sensitive user information, highlighting the challenge of balancing innovation ...
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