This week, we’re sharing a few trending news stories for the tech community.

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A major outage at Cloudflare yesterday morning knocked a broad slice of the internet offline. The incident disrupted services for many notable platforms, including Canva, which this author independently verified earlier today. Cloudflare’s own status page recorded a spike in “unusual traffic” around 11:20 UTC that led to widespread HTTP 500 errors across parts of its global network.

The blast radius was global and cut across consumer apps, business tools, and even transport and payments infrastructure. TechRadar’s liveblog lists X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Spotify, Discord, Canva, Perplexity, and multiple gaming titles among the affected services. That aligns with our experience, and it calls to mind the recent AWS outage that affected so many sites.

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