#downtime

#downtime

Elon Musk's social media platform experienced a global outage today, leaving millions of users unable to access the service for several hours. The disruption affected users across North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions, prompting widespread frustration and speculation about the cause. According to reports from users on other platforms, attempts to log in or refresh feeds resulted in error messages or blank screens.

About 20 percent of the web relies on Cloudflare to manage and protect traffic, a Cloudflare blog noted in July. Some intermediate fixes have been made, Cloudflare's status page said. But as of this writing, many sites remain down. According to DownDetector, Amazon, Spotify, Zoom, Uber, and Azure also experienced outages. "Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage is unacceptable," Cloudflare's spokesperson said. "We apologize to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today. We will learn from today's incident and improve." Cloudflare will continue to update the status page as fixes come in, and a blog will be posted later today discussing the issue, the spokesperson told Ars.

Practising mindfulness has significantly improved my emotional clarity and overall mental health, especially given the high-pressure environment of a competitive city like Hong Kong.

One of my biggest tips is to know when to unplug. Sometimes we get so flooded with information that it can be extremely stressful.

4chan is experiencing significant downtime, prompting speculation of a hack and highlighting the lack of tech upgrades since its sale in 2015.