The entire internet just crashed... again

Cloudflare experienced a major global outage affecting millions of websites including ChatGPT, X (Twitter), and League of Legends. The root cause was a latent bug in their bot mitigation service triggered by a routine configuration change. An automatically generated configuration file for managing threat traffic grew beyond its expected size, causing crashes across multiple Cloudflare services. The incident highlights the internet's dependence on centralized infrastructure providers and the cascading impact when they fail.