Cloudflare outage cripples X, ChatGPT and swaths of the internet in latest infrastructure failure

A significant technical disruption at Cloudflare, the critical internet infrastructure firm responsible for speeding up and securing an estimated 20% of the world’s websites, triggered a major global outage on Tuesday, rendering high-profile platforms like X and OpenAI's ChatGPT inaccessible to millions.

By Soroush Saki

Deepfakes and democracy: Can we trust what we see online?

TEHRAN - In the past, the saying “seeing is believing” carried weight. A photograph or a video was considered proof of reality. But in today’s digital age, even our eyes can deceive us.