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		<title>Online outages: Q3 2025 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Q3 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government directed shutdowns, power outages, cable cuts, a cyberattack, an earthquake, a fire, and technical problems, as well as several with unexplained causes.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan extends localized disruptions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On September 29, 2025, Internet connectivity was completely shut down across Afghanistan, impacting business, education, finance, and government services.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Introducing new regional Internet traffic and Certificate Transparency insights on Cloudflare Radar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare Radar now offers a Certificate Transparency dashboard for monitoring TLS certificate activity,  and new regional traffic insights for a sub-national perspective on Internet trends.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Shutdown season: the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Q2 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government-directed shutdowns, power outages, cable damage, a cyberattack, and technical problems.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocket: Cloudflare’s 2025 Q2 DDoS threat report</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2025/07/15/hyper-volumetric-ddos-attacks-skyrocket-cloudflares-2025-q2-ddos-threat-report/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omer Yoachimik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[June was the busiest month for DDoS attacks in 2025 Q2, accounting for nearly 38% of all observed activity.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>How the power outage of April 28, 2025, in Portugal and Spain impacted Internet traffic and connectivity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A massive power outage struck significant portions of Portugal and Spain at 10:34 UTC on April 28, disrupting everyday activities and services.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>New year, no shutdowns: the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Q1 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world caused by cable damage, power outages, natural disasters, fire, a cyberattack, and technical problems.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Global expansion in Generative AI: a year of growth, newcomers, and attacks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looking at which Generative AI services are more popular, new entrants into the space, how these services have grown in traffic, where that traffic originates, and others.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog examines how diverse cultural celebrations — from Western Christmas to Orthodox and Lunar New Year festivities — shape global Internet traffic.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On January 19, 2025, ByteDance suspended TikTok and related apps for US users. We examine the 14-hour traffic plunge, recovery near Donald Trump’s inauguration.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>When the world logs off: Christmas, New Year’s, and the Internet’s holiday rhythm</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Christmas Eve dinners in Europe to New Year’s Eve countdowns in Asia, Cloudflare data reveals how global festivities have typically shaped Internet usage and cultural rhythms]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>From ChatGPT to Temu: ranking top Internet services in 2024</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2024 popular Internet services landscape highlights rising generative AI, e-commerce shifts, and the continued dominance of platforms like Google and Facebook, as revealed by Cloudflare’s rankings.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2024/12/09/cloudflare-2024-year-in-review/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>From deals to DDoS: exploring Cyber Week 2024 Internet trends</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How significant are Cyber Week shopping days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does E-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time? We try to answer these questions and more.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from multiple cable cuts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2024/11/06/exploring-internet-traffic-shifts-and-cyber-attacks-during-the-2024-us-election/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as well Internet traffic increases across the US and other key trends.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet Quality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more.]]></description>
		
		
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