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Bet365, League of Legends, Sage, YouTube and Google were among those taken offline as provider tried to fix problem Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet The internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday, making many websites inaccessible for about three hours. Continue reading...

US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks experiences unidentified problem Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, has deployed a fix and is slowly recovering service. But there are still key platforms down, such as ChatGPT. “We are continuing working on restoring …

US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Monday, causing error messages to flash up across websites. Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, suffered an unidentified problem on Tuesday, …

The offensive listing seemed more than a mistake – it was a failure of corporate responsibility, says reader I found a baby outfit (sizes from newborn to five years) on Amazon bearing the phrase “Santa’s favourite ho”. This isn’t just a tasteless mistake – it’s a failure of corporate responsibility and consumer protection. A corporation this large should have systems that prevent sexuali sed or e…

The EU is under US pressure to unravel its hard-won online safety laws. We must not give in Protecting our digital sovereignty is crucial. The challenge is why European decision makers are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday at the behest of the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron. As individuals, we spend four to five hours a day accessing the internet via our s…

World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation Entries in Elon Musk ’s new online encyclopedia variously promote white nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures, promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive concepts and approaches historically associated with s…

Sarah Pritchard suggests City regulator will make use of oversight powers amid growing number of outages The City watchdog has said the UK needs to “strengthen” its grip on foreign tech firms providing critical services to banks, amid growing concerns over outages and cyber-attacks. Sarah Pritchard, who was appointed the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) first deputy chief executive this summer…

Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we’re living under, but by the particular epoch of human events that our lives happen to coincide with…

Anthropic says financial firms and government agencies were attacked ‘largely without human intervention’ A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight. The US-based Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a Chine…

Royal Court theatre, London Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s drama toggles between digital and physical worlds as it traces a scholar’s grim compulsion ‘It’s not that deep,” Ani’s friend assures her. Who cares if she watches a lot of extreme pornography? But after the light is switched off, Ani can’t get through their impromptu sleepover without masturbating to porn on her phone. The friend wakes up next t…

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis. An epistemic crisis is a crisis in the produ…

Young women are rejecting the idea of emotional dependence on men. But as with any online feminist movement, it exists in tension A few years ago, I wrote about the rise of the “soft” and “hard” launch on social media , those curated posts that signalled a new relationship. Online platforms had become an extension of the romance plot, a public stage where intimacy was proof of worth, and coupledo…

Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social media The EU executive plans to create a Centre for Democratic Resilience to counter disinformation from Russia and other authoritarian regimes, according to a leaked paper. The European Commission intends for the centre to bring together expertise across the EU and from countries see…

Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation If in doubt, we used to talk about the weather. Or if not that, then why the trains were late again, or how sweet someone’s baby was: the kind of routine bland nothings you exchange with strangers on the street. But something about the way we speak in public is changing. A few days ago …

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life By Samanth Subramanian. Read by Raj Ghatak Continue reading...