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Cloudflare Reports Issues Amid OpenAI, Claude, And Grok Glitch Summary: Cloudflare's status page is reporting two active issues Downdetector Reports Outages Across OpenAI, Claude, Grok Cloudflare Problems There are concerns that the outages and service disruptions reported by Downdetector users across major AI platforms, including OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Cursor, could be linked to an issue at Cloudflare. Cloudflare's status page is reporting two active issues: HTTP/3 issue affecting R2 custom domains: Some websites or applications using custom domains connected to Cloudflare's R2 storage may experience failed or degraded requests over HTTP/3. “Monitoring” means Cloudflare has...

Bitcoin Mining & The Electricity Grid: A Quiet Savior Authored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, With all eyes on the winter storm raging through America last month, a silent hero was working in the background to keep the lights on. And I don’t primarily mean the emergency workers or the teams of electricians, foresters, and engineers that keep the power lines up and ice-free; these guys operate very much in the foreground, the public well aware of their critical work. Before and during winter storms, the electricity supply becomes strained and household demand...

Navy Abandons USS Boise Overhaul After 11 Years And $800 Million Spent The U.S. Navy has finally thrown in the towel on the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Boise (SSN-764). After more than eleven years pierside and roughly $800 million poured into a repair effort that never really started, the service announced that the 34-year-old boat will be inactivated rather than returned to the fleet. The decision comes as the Navy shifts focus to Virginia- and Columbia-class construction, yet one has to wonder why those same priorities could not have been...