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November 18 started like any other day. I was up early to finish some articles to meet a deadline. I was in the middle of doing so and needed some information to finish them. I figured that information would be easy and quick to get from ChatGPT so I had procrastinated doing the work. Just what I needed: when I opened ChatGPT on my laptop, I got some strange message about my credentials being invalid.

The outage is already being discussed on various forums. Reports are also flooding in on Downdetector. In a short period of time, 5,000 reports appeared that Cloudflare was unavailable. Because the company enables connections to countless websites, many reports of problems with sites operated by Cloudflare clients will be the result of the ongoing outage.

"The great patron of the internet for the last 27 years was Google. The great villain of the internet today is also Google," Prince said. He claimed that in the past, for every two pages that Google crawled to inform its search engine, it would, on average, send one visitor to those sites-traffic that publishers can monetise with advertising.

Microsoft has announced a significant takedown of RaccoonO365, a popular tool used by hackers to seize Microsoft 365 credentials via phishing. The tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) seized 338 domains linked to RaccoonO365, which form the backbone of its phishing as a service (PhaaS) offering used in thousands of attacks worldwide.

Because of this breach, someone outside Cloudflare got access to our Salesforce instance, which we use for customer support and internal customer case management, and some of the data it contains,

The default and most commonly used table engine in ClickHouse, MergeTree, is optimized for high-throughput batch inserts. It writes each insert as a separate partition, then runs background merges to keep data manageable. This makes writes very fast, but not when they arrive in lots of tiny batches, which was exactly our case with millions of individual devices uploading one log event every 2 minutes.

Publishers must tolerate the Google AI scraper bot because it comes under the same consent checkbox as Google's Search crawler.

Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare's chief strategy officer, stated, 'The change in traffic patterns has been rapid, and something needed to change. This is just the beginning of a new model for the internet.'

Without ongoing contributions from content creators, AI systems risk becoming outdated, biased, or less reliable-ultimately diminishing user trust and the value of AI products.

The use of a disposable infrastructure and staged delivery payloads implies the actor is prioritizing stealth and operational agility.