Tom Warren

Cloudflare has just recovered from an outage that briefly took down LinkedIn, Fortnite, Coinbase, and even Downdetector. Thankfully it was only a 20-minute outage this time, but it’s the second major one in a mater of weeks after Cloudflare problems in November took down X, ChatGPT, and many other sites. It’s not been a good month for internet outages.

I knew RAM was being sold at market prices just like a catch-of-the-day at a seafood restaurant, but in the UK they must love really expensive lobster or something. One retailer, Curry’s Business, is selling 8GB of DDR4 for £120,000 ($159,000). If you add the UK’s VAT tax on it’s £144,000 ($190,000). I’ll take two, please.