NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week's major Internet outage and the world's reliance on a handful of web services companies.
On Tuesday morning, a big chunk of the internet went down or was not working properly, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and more due to an outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.
A Cloudflare outage disrupted major websites, including X and ChatGPT, for several hours on Tuesday. Cloudflare apologized, with CTO Dane Knecht saying it had "failed" its customers. The company said ...