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A major outage affecting Cloudflare’s Global Network has led to widespread internet disruptions, impacting popular platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT,and even Downdetector, the first place people look to understand internet outages. Cloudflare, the world’s leading web infrastructure and security company, confirmed that it was experiencing a significant issue with its Global Network in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing widespread outages across the internet. The problem has affected various services, including social media platform X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the outage monitoring site Downdetector among many other sites and apps experiencing problems. Even some news sites, including Axios, appear...

In the last few minutes Cloudflare has confirmed it is aware of a major issue affecting its Global Network, which is causing widespread internet outages ranging from platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to ChatGPT, and, ironically, Downdetector. A wave of other websites and services are also experiencing outages. November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM Windscribe Cloudflare outage (Image credit: Windscribe) Is the Windscribe VPN another victim of the Cloudflare outage? We don't know because the status page is also down. Stewart is not having a good day, he uses it to check our deals. November 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM...

Citizen Free Press, The Liberty Daily, SciTech Daily, Not The Bee, Gateway Pundit, several others, all currently unavailable due to "Cloudflare Error" . Anybody else having the same problem?.........

Apple is in for a big shake-up with its iPhone release cycle, it seems — the upcoming iPhone Air and the mainstream iPhone 18 are now rumored to be arriving in a spring slot rather than the usual fall slot. The pivot, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and echoed in supply-chain chatter picked up by The Information, indicates that Apple is heading for a two-wave annual cycle that could be the new normal. A split iPhone release calendar begins to take shape Gurman also says Apple plans to divide iPhone introductions between spring and fall for years, with perhaps five...

Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab is stepping up its succession planning efforts as it prepares for Tim Cook to step down as chief executive of the tech giant as soon as next year, the Financial Times reported on Friday. John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, is widely seen as Cook's most likely successor, the FT reported, citing several people familiar with discussions. Make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments with the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter. Sign up here. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Thousands of posts on Biblical subjects by the grace of God. · 15h · Google AI claims when asked that it was written by people with diverse political opinions. How many of its developers were on the political right versus the left?I cannot say how many of AI claims were written by people with diverse political opinions, but based upon a 2020 report by CNBC[1] on “The most liberal and conservative tech companies, ranked by employees’ political donations,” then, as with most tech companies, we see Google as overwhelming liberal:Alphabet (Google) Democrats - $5,437,048 (88%), Republicans - $766,920 (12%)Some others...

A Texas mother’s viral TikTok is sparking outrage after she shared footage of her daughter, Karrie Jones, in visible agony while waiting to be admitted for labor at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas. The video, posted by Jones’ mother Kash (@kashman2814), has now been viewed more than 23 million times. In the clip, Jones is seen doubled over in a wheelchair as a nurse asks admission questions. Her mother wrote in the text overlay that the staff kept her daughter in the waiting area for “more than 30 mins,” and that Jones’ son was born just “12 min...

Vertiv Chairman Dave Cote joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss why he expects AI-driven data-center growth to remain positive for at least five years, how machine-to-machine AI is beginning to reshape business operations, and much more. Vertiv chairman Dave Cote: AI data-center demand 'very positive' for at least the next five years | 4:40 CNBC Television | 3.29M subscribers | 12,152 views | November 14, 2025 Vertiv search

The controversy surrounding the sexual assault claim leveled against the company DoorDash has taken a dramatic turn, after the man at the forefront of the viral outrage was arrested on charges of a felony offense. According to the authorities, the woman’s story did not align with the evidence, while what began as a call for justice has escalated to a criminal case. Internet users are still grappling to understand the twist in the story. The controversy began when a TikTok user named ‘irlmonsterhighdoll’ posted a clip on the platform TikTok on October 12, stating that she was the victim of...

The British actress Tilly Norwood began appearing in viral videos and short films across the internet earlier this year. She is young, fresh-faced, with girl-next-door vibes. She will be signed by a major talent agency soon. But Tilly Norwood is not real. She is an artificial-intelligence synthetic. She is not in the real world, not embodied. She is not a person or an actress. She is a digital Frankenstein’s monster of video software and ChatGPT. Tilly was created by Particle6 Productions, an AI studio founded by Dutch comedian and actress Eline Van der Velden. Tilly is her project. Van der...

This is Donald Trump’s world—we’re all just living in it. The disruptor-in-chief was the biggest factor shaping global affairs in 2025, and that will be the case for as long as he remains in the White House. His norm-shattering approach has caused turmoil in some areas (as in trade) but has also delivered diplomatic results (as in Gaza) and forced necessary change (as with European defence spending). As the Trumpnado spins on in 2026, here are ten trends and themes to watch in the coming year. 1. America’s 250th.Expect to hear wildly diverging accounts of America’s past, present and future,...

Western automotive and green energy executives who visit China are returning humbled — and even terrified.As The Telegraph reports, the executives are warning that the country’s heavily automated manufacturing industry could quickly leave Western nations behind, especially when it comes to electric vehicles.“We are in a global competition with China, and it’s not just EVs,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told The Verge last month. “And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford.”“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number...

Over the past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students.Gothamist spoke to students about their experience with the ban, and the number one takeaway didn’t have to do with anything to do with hot-button topics like social media addiction or cyberbullying. Instead, it was that kiboshing phones is forcing kids to actually talk to each other in meatspace again — and it’s making schools way noisier, for better or worse.“Sometimes I would take naps in the lunchroom, but now I can’t because of the...

Microsoft has agreed to end its discriminatory practices against pro-life and conservative faith-based organizations The computer business reportedly discriminated against pro-life groups by refusing them proper discounts on software that every other customer qualified received. Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life conservative legal group said that Microsoft had applied a litmus test to deny discounts to nonprofits holding traditional religious views on life and sexuality. Alliance Defending Freedom alleged that Microsoft withheld discounts from the group itself, as well as from pro-life pregnancy resource centers and other nonprofits that decline to hire LGBTQ individuals for religious reasons. Investors backed by ADF...

Now that the older members of the Generation Z cohort have reached their mid-20s, stark differences in their mental health, resilience, and socioemotional development are evident when compared with their Millennial counterparts. Many troubling trends have been measured, including:• A 188 percent increase in emergency room visits for self-harm by girls, and 48 percent for boys, since 2010.• A 167 percent increase in suicide rates for adolescent girls, and a 91 percent increase for adolescent boys, since 2010, with no abatement,• A rise in depression during the 2010s so significant that it could explain nearly all suicide mortality among those...

Palantir is a software company, and its national security work has driven its stock price to remarkable heights.You won’t find the most valuable national security contractor of them all on the standard lists of defense industry stocks.That would be Palantir, a rapidly growing company inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”The S&P 500 defense and aerospace sector contains big publicly traded companies like GE Aerospace, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies). They make the weapons, ammunition and equipment that a nation needs to fight a war: missiles, bombs, tanks, rockets, aircraft, ammunition,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct the hacking campaigns, which researchers called a disturbing development that could greatly expand the reach of AI-equipped hackers.While concerns about the use of AI to drive cyber operations are not new, what is concerning about the new...

Tucker Carlson to announce his findings related to the assassination attempt of President Trump in Butler on Friday night. Here is a list of items that are still outstanding. We’ve been saying since the assassination attempt that many questions are still open. Bannon shared Tucker’s tweet on GETTR. On Twitter and X, a similar report was made. We really don’t know anything about Thomas Crooks, the alleged assassin of President Trump in Bultler, PA, on July 13, 2024. Tucker will be addressing this in a show on Friday. Wall Street Apes shares this: BREAKING: Tucker Carlson announces he is releasing...

Disney is facing substantial financial losses as its carriage dispute with YouTube TV extends into its thirteenth day, leaving millions of viewers without access to ABC, ESPN, and related networks. A Wall Street analysis released this week estimated that the impasse is costing Disney tens of millions of dollars each week. Trump's Sovereign Wealth Fund: What Could It Mean For Your Money? YouTube TV, one of the largest streaming cable replacements in the U.S., dropped Disney-owned channels earlier this month after the companies failed to reach a distribution agreement. The blackout, which began nearly two weeks ago, affects ABC, ESPN,...