New Delhi, Nov. 18 -- A technical issue with Cloudflare rocked the tech world on Tuesday as a number of popular platforms including X, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and others came crashing down. However, this isn't the first such incident where reliance on a major company led to other popular platforms going down, and there have been plenty of such instances this year alone.

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht apologised for the outage and confirmed that it was not linked to an attack. Knecht explained that the outage was triggered by a hidden software bug inside one of its core systems that handles bot related checks.

Given that this system is linked to other parts of Cloudflare's network, the issue quickly spread and led to widespread errors ac...