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Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' (techcrunch.com)
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Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.

“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 135 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

thanks for illustrating the corpo speak

I hope the bug is fine

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Nobody ever asks if the bug is ok

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact time:

That’s why they’re called computer bugs.

In 1947, the Harvard Mark II computer was malfunctioning. Engineers eventually found a dead moth wedged between two relay points, causing a short. Removing it fixed the problem. They saved the moth and it’s on display at a museum to this day.

The moth was not okay.

And to be fair, the word bug had been used to describe little problems and glitches before that incident, but this was the first case of a computer bug.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The moth was not okay.

They didn't tell us this part when they taught it in school #RIP Bug, the OG bug who died to the OG pull request.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Poor guy :(