Cloudflare, a key provider of internet infrastructure, experienced a critical software system crash that led to widespread disruptions, affecting major services like X, Spotify, and OpenAI. The incident has raised concerns about the reliability of critical internet services.
The company’s headquarters in San Francisco, a hub for tech innovation, has seen similar outages in the past, underscoring the fragility of digital infrastructure. Cloudflare has since acknowledged the issue and is working to resolve the problem, although the exact cause of the crash remains under investigation.