Internet Outage
Cloudflare outage disrupts X and ChatGPT access
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Cloudflare suffered a major outage on November 18, 2025, rendering millions of websites worldwide, including X and ChatGPT, inaccessible for about three hours. The company confirmed the issue stemmed from an old bug triggered by a routine configuration change, not a cyber attack. Cloudflare apologized for the global impact on customers.
A hypothetical global internet outage would fracture Bitcoin's network into isolated partitions, leading to divergent blockchains based on regional hashrate distribution. While the protocol would survive through automatic reconciliation upon reconnection, user experience could suffer from paused services and orphaned transactions. In a permanent scenario, Bitcoin might evolve into multiple independent networks.
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A major outage at Amazon Web Services' US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia caused widespread internet disruptions on Monday morning, October 20, 2025. DNS resolution issues affected numerous platforms, including Amazon's own services and third-party apps. The incident highlighted vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure.