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Cloudflare says its Sunday morning problems were due to CenturyLink outage

Cloudflare said its Sunday morning outage affecting numerous websites was due to an IP outage by internet service provider CenturyLink. “Today we saw a widespread Internet outage online that impacted many multiple providers,” a Cloudflare representative said “This was not a Cloudflare-specific outage. Level 3/CenturyLink was responsible for an outage that affected many Internet services, […]

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Cloudflare cuts off extremist site 8chan after multiple shootings

Cloudflare, an online infrastructure service that helps websites mitigate DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has announced that it will no longer provide security services to the far-right site 8chan following the deadly, mass shooting by a white nationalist in El Paso, Texas. Cloudflare has been reluctant to pull its services from extremist websites, citing free speech issues. […]

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Cloudflare wants to protect the internet from quantum computing

Quantum computing is threatening to blow up the encryption that protects internet communications and lets you do things like shop online without thieves stealing your credit card number. Now internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has joined an effort to come up with new “post-quantum” algorithms that’ll extend today’s security protections. Cloudflare has begun testing new encryption […]