Cloudflare down latest: Websites such as Twitter not working amid technical problems with the internet

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline...

Parts of the web appear to have stopped working amid a technical problem at Cloudflare.
Visitors to websites such as X, formerly known as Twitter, and film reviewing site Letterboxd saw an error message that indicated that Cloudflare problems meant that the page could not show.
Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure that offers many of the core technologies that power today’s online experiences. That includes tools that protect websites from cyber attacks and ensure that they stay online amid heavy traffic, for instance.

“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company said in a new update. “Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.”
Tracking website Down Detector, which monitors outage, was also hit by the technical problems itself. But when it loaded it showed a dramatic spike in problems.

Affected users saw a message indicating there was an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network”. It asked users to “please try again in a few minutes”.

Potential handover of nuclear arms by US to Kyiv ‘act of treason’, says US congresswoman

The Biden administration potentially giving nuclear weapons to Ukraine can be considered an act of treason, member of the US House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene said. "This is insane and completely unconstitutional, possibly an act of treason. This must be stopped immediately!!" she wrote on her page on X, commenting on a remark by one of the users that, according to US media outlets, "Biden officials are reportedly seriously considering giving nuclear weapons to Ukraine."

Taylor Greene suggested that the Biden administration is "trying to start a nuclear war and use it as the reason to stop the transfer of power to Trump."
#TRUMP2024

‘Incoherent pandering’: Joe Biden roasted online following graduation

#Biden was blasted online following “incoherent pandering” at a #graduation ceremony on Sunday at Morehouse College in Atlanta. The 81-year-old received an honorary degree from the college located in Atlanta and conducted a speech.

X users roasted The oldest-ever sitting president after his early exit from Morehouse’s ceremony.
“Biden bails on the rest of the ceremony after he finishes his incoherent pandering at Morehouse College,” wrote RNC Research.

University students protested Biden’s appearance during the graduation ceremony as many turned their backs on him.
One of the students at the ceremony, DeAngelo Fletcher, believed the President's appearance was to appeal to young black voters. “I think it's kind of insulting that our star alumnus is Dr. King, but Biden has been on a tirade in the Middle East. Bringing him here, especially during an election year to get the young Black vote especially, it's kind of insulting,” he said.
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Tucker #Carlson Interview with Vladimir #Putin

[Update- Feb. 9-23:00Z] It has been viewed over 150 mln times in over 23 hours since it was posted on the social network X. The video was "liked" by more than 860,000 users. It has been reposted 269,000 times.
On Carlson’s YouTube channel, it has been viewed over 8.3 mln times.

The majority of U.S. adults will turn off cookies to manage privacy online

Key stat: 67% of US adults turn off cookies or website tracking to protect their privacy, putting it second only to changing social media privacy settings, according to a May 2023 Pew Research Center survey.

Beyond the chart:

This data is particularly relevant as cookies are being phased out. The start of 2024 marked the deprecation of third-party cookies for 1% of Google Chrome users, with cookies scheduled to go away completely by the end of the year.

As third-party cookies fade, advertisers need to find ways to reach users without making them feel violated online, like incentivizing users to share first-party data.