Cloudflare has a long blog post summarizing the root cause of the outages today.
It was triggered by a change to a database systems' permissions which caused it to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by their Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size.
The software that read this file "panic'd" since the file contained more objects than a predefined limit of 200.
"Don't panic" should be a reqment for real-time sw!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
4/n
When faced with unexpected conditions in your software, handle them in some rational way, scrub the data, spit out some alarm messages, email the developer and continue processing, but Don't Panic!
5/n
Epstein survivor Jess Michaels delivered the line People across the nation need to hear:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
👏
https://bsky.app/profile/newscurrentnow.com/post/3m5wbcf5pgk24
#UsPol
3/n
Chuck Schumer was on fire today.
🔥
🤔
#UsPol
4/n
Things did not go according to plan for Republicans today.
Is there a Plan Z?
#UsPol
2/n
Epstein survivor Jess Michaels delivered the line People across the nation need to hear:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
👏
https://bsky.app/profile/newscurrentnow.com/post/3m5wbcf5pgk24
#UsPol
3/n
'Speaker Mike Johnson said he voted for the Jeffrey Epstein disclosure bill Tuesday based on his hope that the Senate would make changes he’s been demanding. Senate Majority Leader John Thune shot that down.
“I talked with the speaker a bit, and we’ve been in consultation obviously with the White House on this for some time,” Thune told reporters. “The conclusion was when it came out of the House 427-1 that, you know, it was going to pass in the Senate.”
'
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/18/congress/johnson-thune-epstein-files-gop-00658475
#UsPol
1/n
Things did not go according to plan for Republicans today.
Is there a Plan Z?
#UsPol
2/n
'Speaker Mike Johnson said he voted for the Jeffrey Epstein disclosure bill Tuesday based on his hope that the Senate would make changes he’s been demanding. Senate Majority Leader John Thune shot that down.
“I talked with the speaker a bit, and we’ve been in consultation obviously with the White House on this for some time,” Thune told reporters. “The conclusion was when it came out of the House 427-1 that, you know, it was going to pass in the Senate.”
'
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/18/congress/johnson-thune-epstein-files-gop-00658475
#UsPol
1/n
Downdetector is up now (for me at least). It shows outage reports spiking up again at X, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Spotify, AWS, ...
https://downdetector.com/
3/n
Cloudflare has a long blog post summarizing the root cause of the outages today.
It was triggered by a change to a database systems' permissions which caused it to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by their Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size.
The software that read this file "panic'd" since the file contained more objects than a predefined limit of 200.
"Don't panic" should be a reqment for real-time sw!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
4/n
engadget is reporting that Downdetector is showing X, Spotify and other sites as returning to normal.
Cloudflare posted at 8:13 ET that "the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates."
I still cannot access Downdetector or X.
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/cloudflare-hit-by-outage-causing-widespread-errors-124208302.html
2/n
Downdetector is up now (for me at least). It shows outage reports spiking up again at X, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Spotify, AWS, ...
https://downdetector.com/
3/n
Outages at web infrastructure provider Cloudflare this morning are affecting services such as Twitter/X, OpenAI and Downdetector (!).
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
1/n
engadget is reporting that Downdetector is showing X, Spotify and other sites as returning to normal.
Cloudflare posted at 8:13 ET that "the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates."
I still cannot access Downdetector or X.
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/cloudflare-hit-by-outage-causing-widespread-errors-124208302.html
2/n
Outages at web infrastructure provider Cloudflare this morning are affecting services such as Twitter/X, OpenAI and Downdetector (!).
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
1/n
Overview of the ocean monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B from NASA/JPL
"These observations will help build an accurate picture of local and global sea levels to support weather and storm forecasting, secure coastal property and infrastructure, and help optimize commercial activities such as shipping and undersea pipeline operations."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTmIUypawcs
2/n
Here is a graphic from ESA showing the 2 main contributors to the rise in sea levels -
Meltwater from land ice and
Ocean thermal expansion
both caused by Climate Change.
https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/Sentinel-6_Mission_kit_251113.pdf
3/n
AkaSci 🛰
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