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Google and ChatGPT Remain the Most Popular Services as Internet Traffic Grows by 19 Percent: Cloudflare
Cloudflare’s 2025 Internet report shows global web traffic grew 19 percent, with growth accelerating in the second half of the year. Google remained the most visited destination online, while ChatGPT led the generative AI space. The report also highlights a sharp rise in AI bot activity, with non-human traffic now accounting for over four percent...
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CEO Matthew Prince In Focus As Cloudflare Recovers From Global Disruption
According to Matthew Prince the era dominated by search engines is ending, suggesting the next 30 years will be shaped by artificial intelligence.
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Cloudflare Restores Services After Outage That Impacted Several Websites Including BookMyShow, SpaceX, Coinbase
Various websites hosted on Cloudflare have become inaccessible for the second time in three weeks. While the last outage caught the company off guard, this time its website mentions that a "scheduled maintenance is currently in progress". As part of the outage, Canva, BookMyShow, LinkedIn, Notion, Groww, Coinbase, and a number of websites are curre...
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Cloudflare Explains How Configuration Change Took Down 20 Percent of the Internet
Cloudflare suffered a major outage after an internal permissions change caused its Bot Management system to generate an oversized feature file that repeatedly broke proxy services. The faulty file was circulated across the network, triggering hours of failures that initially resembled a DDoS attack. Cloudflare halted the bad file, restored a stable...
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Cloudflare Outage Took Down X, ChatGPT: All About The Company
Cloudflare Outage: The company has resolved the issue and is monitoring for errors to ensure all services are back to normal
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Cloudflare Outage That Impacted ChatGPT, X, Dropbox Users Resolved
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up "it results in massive digital gridlock" for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.
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Cloudflare Restores Services After Outage Knocks X, ChatGPT, Canva and Downtime Trackers Offline
Cloudflare’s global network is facing disruptions, causing multiple websites and services to go offline. Platforms like X and downtime trackers are affected. The outage began recently and has been acknowledged by Cloudflare, which is actively working on fixes, including scheduled maintenance across several data centers to restore normal operation...
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Perplexity Is Using Stealth Bots and Breaking Website Directives to Fetch Data, Says Cloudflare
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from t...
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'Does Tim Cook Get Them?' Cloudflare CEO On Spam $54 Million Buyout Offer
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of IT service management company Cloudflare, was stunned after receiving a random email offering to buy his $54 million company.
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Cloudflare Introduces AI Audit Tool to Block Data Scraping AI Bots from Accessing Websites
Cloudflare announced a new suite of tools dubbed AI Audit which will offer website owners and bloggers more control over their content. The security tool will enable users to block or allow artificial intelligence (AI) bots which often crawl websites to scape data. The company is offering this tool to all of its existing users without any extra cha...
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Cloudflare CEO Responds To Viral Video Of Employee Getting Fired
A video of an employee of US-based IT services company Couldflare being fired over a conference call had gone viral on the Internet. The video, posted by Brittany Pietsch, is titled "POV: You're about to get laid off".
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Davos 2023: What Silicon Valley CEO's Are Saying About ChatGPT-Style AI at the World Economic Forum
ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm ever since developer OpenAI decided to allow users to try out the service. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the chatbot is set to receive a lot of attention, especially from CEOs of firms including Microsoft, Sony, Cloudflare, Palantir, and CarMax.
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Kiwi Farms Hacked After Cloudflare, DDoS-Guard Drop Protection; Usernames Passwords Stolen
Kiwi Farms, the online forum used as a hub for organising harassment campaigns, particularly targeting women or people in the LGBTQ community, announced that it was affected by a data breach. In the blog post, the forum stated that it was hacked and users should assume that usernames and passwords were stolen.
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Kiwi Farms' Services Terminated by DDoS-Guard Over Hate Forum’s Violation of Acceptable Use Policy
DDoS-Guard revealed on Monday that it terminated its protection services for Kiwi Farms. This hate forum has gained notoriety for organising hate campaigns against trans activists and feminists. It was previously blocked by Cloudflare on Sunday.
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Cloudflare Blocks Kiwi Farms Citing Threat to Human Life, Website Resurfaces Via Russian Domain: Report
Cloudflare pulled its support for Kiwi Farms on Sunday citing "imminent threats to human life." The development came as Kiwi Farms was linked to a campaign of harassment and violent threats targeting a transgender YouTuber and activist named Clara Sorrenti.
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Google and ChatGPT Remain the Most Popular Services as Internet Traffic Grows by 19 Percent: Cloudflare
Cloudflare’s 2025 Internet report shows global web traffic grew 19 percent, with growth accelerating in the second half of the year. Google remained the most visited destination online, while ChatGPT led the generative AI space. The report also highlights a sharp rise in AI bot activity, with non-human traffic now accounting for over four percent...
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CEO Matthew Prince In Focus As Cloudflare Recovers From Global Disruption
According to Matthew Prince the era dominated by search engines is ending, suggesting the next 30 years will be shaped by artificial intelligence.
-
Cloudflare Restores Services After Outage That Impacted Several Websites Including BookMyShow, SpaceX, Coinbase
Various websites hosted on Cloudflare have become inaccessible for the second time in three weeks. While the last outage caught the company off guard, this time its website mentions that a "scheduled maintenance is currently in progress". As part of the outage, Canva, BookMyShow, LinkedIn, Notion, Groww, Coinbase, and a number of websites are curre...
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Cloudflare Explains How Configuration Change Took Down 20 Percent of the Internet
Cloudflare suffered a major outage after an internal permissions change caused its Bot Management system to generate an oversized feature file that repeatedly broke proxy services. The faulty file was circulated across the network, triggering hours of failures that initially resembled a DDoS attack. Cloudflare halted the bad file, restored a stable...
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Cloudflare Outage Took Down X, ChatGPT: All About The Company
Cloudflare Outage: The company has resolved the issue and is monitoring for errors to ensure all services are back to normal
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Cloudflare Outage That Impacted ChatGPT, X, Dropbox Users Resolved
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up "it results in massive digital gridlock" for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.
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Cloudflare Restores Services After Outage Knocks X, ChatGPT, Canva and Downtime Trackers Offline
Cloudflare’s global network is facing disruptions, causing multiple websites and services to go offline. Platforms like X and downtime trackers are affected. The outage began recently and has been acknowledged by Cloudflare, which is actively working on fixes, including scheduled maintenance across several data centers to restore normal operation...
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Perplexity Is Using Stealth Bots and Breaking Website Directives to Fetch Data, Says Cloudflare
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from t...
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'Does Tim Cook Get Them?' Cloudflare CEO On Spam $54 Million Buyout Offer
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of IT service management company Cloudflare, was stunned after receiving a random email offering to buy his $54 million company.
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Cloudflare Introduces AI Audit Tool to Block Data Scraping AI Bots from Accessing Websites
Cloudflare announced a new suite of tools dubbed AI Audit which will offer website owners and bloggers more control over their content. The security tool will enable users to block or allow artificial intelligence (AI) bots which often crawl websites to scape data. The company is offering this tool to all of its existing users without any extra cha...
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Cloudflare CEO Responds To Viral Video Of Employee Getting Fired
A video of an employee of US-based IT services company Couldflare being fired over a conference call had gone viral on the Internet. The video, posted by Brittany Pietsch, is titled "POV: You're about to get laid off".
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Davos 2023: What Silicon Valley CEO's Are Saying About ChatGPT-Style AI at the World Economic Forum
ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm ever since developer OpenAI decided to allow users to try out the service. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the chatbot is set to receive a lot of attention, especially from CEOs of firms including Microsoft, Sony, Cloudflare, Palantir, and CarMax.
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Kiwi Farms Hacked After Cloudflare, DDoS-Guard Drop Protection; Usernames Passwords Stolen
Kiwi Farms, the online forum used as a hub for organising harassment campaigns, particularly targeting women or people in the LGBTQ community, announced that it was affected by a data breach. In the blog post, the forum stated that it was hacked and users should assume that usernames and passwords were stolen.
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Kiwi Farms' Services Terminated by DDoS-Guard Over Hate Forum’s Violation of Acceptable Use Policy
DDoS-Guard revealed on Monday that it terminated its protection services for Kiwi Farms. This hate forum has gained notoriety for organising hate campaigns against trans activists and feminists. It was previously blocked by Cloudflare on Sunday.
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Cloudflare Blocks Kiwi Farms Citing Threat to Human Life, Website Resurfaces Via Russian Domain: Report
Cloudflare pulled its support for Kiwi Farms on Sunday citing "imminent threats to human life." The development came as Kiwi Farms was linked to a campaign of harassment and violent threats targeting a transgender YouTuber and activist named Clara Sorrenti.
