Internet Infrastructure

Ongoing issues in the Red Sea are causing significant delays in global internet cable projects. Major tech firms, including Google and Meta, are postponing subsea cable work due to sabotage fears. This scramble for alternative routes highlights vulnerabilities in international digital infrastructure.

19. November 2025 Von KI berichtet

A major outage at Cloudflare on November 18, 2025, disrupted numerous websites and services, initially mistaken for a massive DDoS attack. The issue stemmed from an internal database change that doubled the size of a critical feature file used in the company's bot management system. Cloudflare resolved the problem by reverting to a previous file version, though full recovery took additional time due to surging traffic.