Half the internet goes down as Cloudflare blames major outage on ‘fiber cut’ in North America

Dozens of popular websites crashed on Monday, leaving millions without access. Issues began at 8.35am ET on Monday, affecting a range of services including X, Zoom, Google and Microsoft. Cloudflare, which provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, said it is investigating a fiber cut in Eastern North America and believes …

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Cloudflare execs and Standard Chartered boss Bill Winters ignite fury by declaring AI replaces lower value human capital

Cloudflare CEO or similar exec types like Standard Chartered’s Bill Winters got fresh backlash for straight up saying AI replaces lower value human capital and laying off measurers while growing revenue. "It was an inartful way to say something." JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon addresses the backlash over Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters' remarks on AI replacing …

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Cloudflare outage hits thousands of sites at once, knocking X and major platforms offline in a single sweep.

INTERNET SUFFERS ANOTHER MASS OUTAGE CLOUDFARE DOWN HACK? Cloudflare had a huge outage today, and it took a big chunk of the internet down with it. Sites that normally never go dark all started breaking at once. X had thousands of outage reports, AIPAC’s site and Track AIPAC went down, and even stuff like Spotify, …

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Cloudflare launches pay-per-crawl. AI bots blocked by default. Websites set prices. Publishers get paid. $NET could be the toll booth for AI.

Cloudflare just flipped the switch on a new model for the internet. Starting July 1, 2025, every new domain using Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default. No scraping. No silent indexing. If an AI company wants access, it has to pay. That’s the core of Pay-Per-Crawl, a system now in private beta that lets websites …

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