A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”
“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
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Was there a specific event that coincided with the blackout? I don’t know the details of current US events, just that they’re crazy and depressing.
Why DDoS Cloudflare when they could just pressure them directly like they did with BBC or Paramount? I know this administration isn’t exactly the brightest but that doesn’t seem like something they’d do.
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I’m assuming it’s because they’re batshit crazy
This is a much more positive view than mine, which is that AI corps are trying to make the rest of the internet less reliable to drive traffic to themselves but it failed/backfiredI’d only heard about X before reading the articlechatgpt and claude were both down
Local LLM was up the whole time.
Better privacy, better uptime.
not the point. the point was that “conspiracy of ai corporations to drive traffic to themselves” doesn’t make much sense.