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Cloudflare outage knocks out X, ChatGPT and major websites worldwide
MUMBAI: A sweeping internet hiccup rattled the digital world on Tuesday as Cloudflare, the heavyweight behind much of the modern web’s plumbing, faltered and dragged scores of popular platforms down with it. Users across continents were slapped with 500 errors, frozen dashboards and stalled apps, as sites from X to ChatGPT buckled at once.
Cloudflare said it was aware of an issue affecting multiple customers and was investigating the cause. Early checks pointed to widespread failures across its dashboard and API. The company said it was working to understand the full impact and mitigate the problem, promising further updates.
Later in the day, the firm said services were beginning to recover but warned that customers might still see higher-than-normal error rates while remediation continued. Engineers, meanwhile, kept digging into the source of the disruption.
The scale of the outage showed just how deeply Cloudflare sits under the global internet. Its DNS, CDN and security tools keep thousands of businesses online, meaning a wobble at its end cascades across the web. By 4.30pm IST, the impact was visible everywhere: users struggled to load posts on X, generate designs on Canva or run AI tools like ChatGPT. Even online games such as League of Legends saw players locked out.
Among the worst-hit services were:
Twitter (X)
Spotify
Canva
Shopify
OpenAI
Garmin
Claude
Verizon
Discord
TMobile
AT&T
League of Legends
For now, the web is largely back on its feet, though engineers are still elbow-deep in diagnostics. The internet may be vast, but when one pillar shakes, the whole structure feels the tremor. Today it did. And how.
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Paisabazaar launches Credit Premier League 2.0
Nationwide campaign rewards highest credit scores with Rs 1 lakh top prize.
MUMBAI: When credit scores become a national league, even your CIBIL report starts feeling like it’s playing in the IPL and Paisabazaar has just kicked off the second season. Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for financial products and the country’s largest free credit score platform, has announced the return of the Credit Premier League (CPL) 2.0, a fun, nationwide initiative to recognise and reward individuals with the highest credit scores.
Building on the success of the first edition, CPL 2.0 introduces higher rewards and broader participation. The individual(s) with the highest credit score in the country will win Rs 1 lakh, while state champions will each receive Rs 10,000. Additionally, all participants from the winning state, the one with the highest average credit score will also be rewarded.
All winnings will be credited directly to winners’ PB Wallet, allowing them to pay credit card bills, recharge mobiles, or settle utility bills seamlessly on the Paisabazaar platform.
Paisabazaar CEO Santosh Agarwal said the campaign aims to make credit awareness more engaging and mainstream. “With CPL, we are bringing together engagement, gamification and rewards to make conversations around credit scores more mainstream,” he noted. “Our focus remains on building a financially aware and credit-healthy Bharat.”
The first edition of CPL saw over 5.5 million participants, with the highest individual score touching 861. Delhi recorded the highest average credit score of 746.
Consumers can participate simply by checking their free credit score on the Paisabazaar platform or app. The CPL leaderboard and rankings will be available exclusively on the Paisabazaar App.
In a country where financial dreams are serious business, Paisabazaar has found a smart way to turn credit scores into an exciting game – because when your financial health gets rewarded, everyone wants to play.
