Major websites such as X and ChatGPT have stopped working due to an
outage at Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare on Tuesday. A
popular tool for checking whether a site is down, downdetector.com, has
also been affected.
Issues with infrastructure provider Cloudflare have caused outages across popular websites worldwide
In a message on its status page just before noon UTC, the company said that it “is experiencing an internal service degradation,” and investigating the issue.
Cloudflare’s servers act as “reverse proxy,”
routing internet traffic through its network to protect against
potential cyberthreats to its customers. It protects nearly a fifth of
all sites around the world.
Major websites that use its protection have faced intermittent outages.
Cloudflare has reported that it believes the problem has been fixed.
“A
fix has been implemented, and we believe the incident is now resolved.
We will continue to monitor for any errors to ensure all services are
operating normally,” the company said on its status page.
14:49 GMT
Service to major websites such as X and Spotify appears to have returned.
14:45 GMT
Cloudflare has blamed the outage on a surge in “unusual traffic.”
“We
saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services
beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through
Cloudflare’s network to experience errors,” CBS news cited a company spokesperson as saying.
“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic.”
14:35 GMT
Cloudflare
has not yet given an estimate as to how long a solution would take.
While the company reported that it found and was implementing a fix at
around 13:00 GMT, its latest statement more than an hour later said it
was “continuing to work” on the issue.
14:26 GMT
The website belonging to Moody’s, one of the biggest financial ratings agencies, has similarly been affected.
14:18 GMT
Open
AI's ChatGPT, the world's most popular chatbot website, and
Downdetector, the go-to platform for checking website status
information, have also been affected.
13:52 GMT
Cloudflare has reported that it has restored access to its secure internet traffic service for its London servers.
“We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover... We have re-enabled WARP access in London,” the company said on its status page.
Video Credit: HaĂÉ«zaqv Wolf and Biodiversity Project
Video
of a wolf hauling a crab trap out of the water and then raiding its
bait has sparked a debate over whether this is the first evidence of
tool use in wild canids, or just clever puzzle-solving. Researchers
describe the unusual feat November 17 in Ecology and Evolution.
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"One damp spring evening last year, a wolf hauled a crab trap ashore
off the central Pacific coast of British Columbia. The rangy animal made
a delectable meal of the bait inside, and unknowingly launched a
healthy debate about her feat.
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) had been recorded on a motion-triggered camera installed by environmental wardens — known as Guardians — from the HaĂÉ«zaqv Nation Indigenous community.
To Kyle Artelle, an ecologist who coleads the HaĂÉ«zaqv Wolf and Biodiversity Project, the footage was “completely revelatory.”
“The amount of confidence she shows, and the efficiency of that
behavior — it certainly suggests this is not her first rodeo,” says
Artelle, of the State University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Wily wolf
Video of a wolf hauling a crab trap out of the water and then raiding
its bait has sparked a debate over whether this is the first evidence
of tool use in wild canids, or just clever puzzle-solving.
Video of a wolf hauling a
crab trap out of the water and then raiding its bait has sparked a
debate over whether this is the first evidence of tool use in wild
canids, or just clever puzzle-solving.
Tool use, broadly defined as the deliberate manipulation of an object to achieve a goal, has been seen in domestic dogs, captive dingoes and manywildanimals. Not so in free-living wolves, though they move mostly at twilight, making close observation rare.
HaĂÉ«zaqv Guardians had noticed many crab traps dragged onto the
beach, their netting mangled and bait missing. The wardens initially
thought marine mammals might be to blame. Or maybe bears. Remote cameras
not only revealed the real culprit, but also later captured similar,
less conclusive glimpses of the same behavior in additional wolves.
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