Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network.

Parts of the internet were knocked offline Tuesday after a major Cloudflare outage disrupted access to platforms including X and Letterboxd.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that powers many popular websites, including Spotify, OpenAI, League of Legends, and more. Cloudflare said the outage was resolved as of 9:30 a.m. EST, and all services would return to normal over the next several hours.

The internet is down (again). A wide range of websites (including our very own gizmodo.com) were down on Tuesday morning due to an outage involving internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.

A widespread internet outage early Tuesday disrupted major websites around the world and caused local issues in Greensboro after a failure at Cloudflare.

NetBlocks, a global internet watchdog, also said that a wide range of online services were currently experiencing disruptions due to a technical issue affecting Cloudflare’s global network. It added that the incident was not related to “country-level internet disruptions or filtering”.

Comcast Xfinity users nationwide experienced widespread service disruptions on Sunday, November 17, impacting internet, TV, and phone services. Thous

Canvas is a common online blackboard used by schools and universities all over the United States. Students use Canvas to submit assignments and obtain instructions for them, as well as lecture videos and other materials. So, Canvas being down is a big deal ...