Cloudflare outage easing after impacting thousands of internet users

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A global outage at web infrastructure firm Cloudflare began to ease on Tuesday (Nov 18) after preventing thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around 6.40am ET (7.40pm, Singapore time). It has deployed a fix but some customers might still be impacted as it recovers service. The incident marked the latest hit to major online