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Cloudflare Outage Halts Warp, X, OpenAI – Config Glitch

6/29/2026

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Cloudflare suffered a global outage reported at 11.48 am London time on Tuesday.
The outage disabled Warp encryption in London and blocked access to X and OpenAI.
Engineers identified an oversized automatically generated configuration file that overwhelmed traffic-management software.
Cloudflare restored service and declared the incident resolved by 2.48 pm.
A spokesperson apologized while Professor Alan Woodward warned that few firms control core internet infrastructure.

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Cloudflare suffered a global outage reported at 11.48 am London time on Tuesday.
The outage disabled Warp encryption in London and blocked access to X and OpenAI.
Engineers identified an oversized automatically generated configuration file that overwhelmed traffic-management software.
Cloudflare restored service and declared the incident resolved by 2.48 pm.
A spokesperson apologized while Professor Alan Woodward warned that few firms control core internet infrastructure.