Cloudflare has confirmed that a bug in one of its core services caused a major outage on Tuesday, taking large portions of the internet offline and affecting traffic to services including X, ChatGPT, and, ironically, Downdetector. The company’s CTO, Dane Knecht, posted a public apology shortly after services were restored, calling the incident “unacceptable” and attributing the disruption to a routine configuration change that triggered a crash in its bot mitigation layer.
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