2025-10-28 13:00
🚀 In October 2025, Cloudflare achieved a significant milestone: over half of human-initiated traffic is now protected by post-quantum encryption. This development counters the harvest-now/decrypt-later threat. 🔍 The article discusses the ongoing migration to post-quantum cryptography, highlighting advancements like NIST standards and new cryptographic proposals. 🖥️ Quantum computers pose risks to traditional encryption methods like RSA, prompting the shift to more secure options. While...
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Bas Westerbaan
2025-10-28 12:00
🚀 Exciting news for Cloudflare Workers users! Automatic tracing is now in open beta. This feature allows you to gain deeper application observability without any code changes. Traces can be explored in the Cloudflare dashboard and exported to OpenTelemetry-compatible providers. Identify performance bottlenecks and resolve errors with detailed metadata and timing information on every operation your Worker performs. Enhance your application's performance with this new capability! #Cloudflare...
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Jeremy Morrell
2025-10-28 12:00
🌍 In Q3 2025, global Internet disruptions were reported due to various factors. Government-directed shutdowns occurred in Sudan, Syria, and Iraq, particularly affecting exam periods. Additionally, outages were caused by cable cuts, power outages, a cyberattack, and natural disasters, including an earthquake and a fire. Traffic anomalies were detected, highlighting the impact of these events. For more detailed insights, check the Cloudflare Radar Outage Center. #InternetOutages #Q32025...
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David Belson
2025-10-27 13:00
Measuring the Internet poses unique challenges due to its complex, multi-entity structure. 🌐 Many networks operate independently, creating an opaque environment for measurement. The article discusses the importance of rigorous scientific practices in Internet measurement, highlighting methodology, ethics, and representation. 📊 An example from Cloudflare illustrates how high-quality data can inform our understanding, yet isolated observations without context can lead to misleading conclusions....
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Marwan Fayed
2025-10-27 12:00
Cloudflare plans to hire 1,111 interns by 2026, representing about 25% of its workforce. This initiative will create opportunities for interns to contribute to meaningful projects and gain hands-on experience in data analysis. Despite having vast amounts of data, measurement remains complex due to noise and the challenge of establishing ground truth. Insights from past interns, like Ram Sundara Raman, highlight the importance of applying academic research to real-world problems. Prospective...
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Ram Sundara Raman (Guest author)
2025-10-27 12:00
🌐 Cloudflare Radar has introduced a new Top-Level Domain (TLD) page. This resource offers insights into TLD popularity, traffic, and security. The TLD landscape has evolved significantly since the early 2000s. With over 1,400 entries recognized by ICANN, types now include country code domains and brand-specific TLDs. The new Radar page aggregates data from various Cloudflare services, enhancing user access to domain registration and providing security insights, including metrics on the most...
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David Belson
2025-10-27 12:00
Curious about how Cloudflare measures Internet quality? 🌐 Their speed test focuses on more than just peak bandwidth. It evaluates your connection's real-world performance, including metrics like latency and packet loss, which can impact your online experience. The blog explains the variability in speed tests, such as server locations and testing methodologies, which can affect results. 📊 Cloudflare aims to enhance Internet measurement tools for everyone, promoting a better online experience....
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Carlos Rodrigues
2025-10-27 12:00
🌐 This week, Cloudflare Research is sharing insights on building a more measurable, resilient, and transparent Internet. 📝 Coinciding with the ACM's Internet Measurement Conference, they will explore foundational concepts in Internet measurement, resilience, and cryptography. 🔍 Expect posts on Internet speed testing, connection tampering, and frameworks for assessing Internet resilience. Stay tuned for valuable updates! #Cloudflare #InternetResearch #InternetResilience #Cybersecurity #TechUpdate
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Mari Galicer
2025-10-27 12:00
🌐 Cloudflare Radar has significantly evolved since its 2020 launch, enhancing our understanding of Internet security, traffic, and routing. Key components include Radar Internet Insights, Domain Insights, and IP Insights, all aimed at providing deeper visibility into online activities. The platform now offers comprehensive data on security threats, traffic disruptions, and more, while maintaining user-friendly access. With the rise of new protocols and security challenges, Cloudflare Radar is...
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David Belson
2025-10-24 17:10
In September 2025, a phishing attack compromised 18 popular npm packages, risking over 2 billion weekly downloads. This breach allowed hackers to steal crypto assets and modify other packages. Cloudflare's Page Shield, utilizing a graph-based machine learning model, detected these threats in real-time, analyzing 3.5 billion scripts daily. This proactive approach prevents future attacks by identifying malicious code patterns effectively. Stay informed and secure your applications! 🔒💻...
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George Yoxall
2025-10-24 13:00
Cloudflare is partnering with Visa and Mastercard to enhance security in agentic commerce. 🤝 As AI agents increasingly handle transactions, it's crucial for merchants to differentiate between legitimate agents and malicious bots. The Trusted Agent Protocol and Agent Pay are key developments aimed at addressing these security challenges. These protocols use Web Bot Auth for authenticating agent traffic, ensuring safe and reliable interactions during both product browsing and payment processes....
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Will Allen
2025-10-21 13:00
🚀 A recent article delves into the performance of BPF LPM tries, crucial for IP matching in network routing. It began with a soft lockup issue, highlighting performance bottlenecks in BPF LPM trie maps, including slow entry lookups and CPU lockups. These problems have impacted services like Cloudflare’s Magic Firewall, causing packet loss for users. The article also explains trie structures and their efficiency in storing and searching data, making them ideal for tasks like longest prefix...
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Jesper Brouer
2025-10-17 06:00
🚀 Cloudflare Load Balancing introduces Monitor Groups! This new feature allows users to combine multiple health monitors into one assessment, enhancing application reliability. With Monitor Groups, you can determine endpoint health by aggregating results from various monitors, ensuring all critical services are functioning before routing traffic. Available now via API for Enterprise customers, it will soon be accessible in the Dashboard for all users. #Cloudflare #LoadBalancing #MonitorGroups...
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Cole Bennett
2025-10-16 14:00
🔐 The web's power comes with challenges, especially in client-side cryptography. Current JavaScript practices make cryptography hard to trust, as sites can change code without auditability. A new specification, WAICT, aims to enhance web security by ensuring integrity, consistency, and transparency for web applications. This effort involves collaboration among browser vendors, cloud providers, and developers to protect various uses of in-browser cryptography. #WebSecurity #JavaScript...
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Michael Rosenberg
2025-10-14 20:00
Cloudflare has addressed CPU performance issues in its Workers platform following benchmarks by developer Theo Browne. The initial results showed Cloudflare Workers lagging behind Vercel in CPU-intensive tasks. Investigations revealed various small problems in infrastructure and JavaScript libraries contributing to this disparity. Recent changes have improved performance, bringing Cloudflare in line with Vercel in most benchmark cases. Future enhancements aim to close remaining gaps,...
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Kenton Varda
2025-10-09 14:00
🌐 Exciting news from Cloudforce One! We're launching the REACT team, designed to bridge the gap between perimeter defense and internal incident response. With over 190 billion cyber threats blocked daily, we know that stopping attacks at the edge is just the beginning. Our new suite of incident response services includes proactive advisory support and real-time crisis management. REACT aims to eliminate delays in incident handling, ensuring a unified defense for organizations. Learn how we...
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Trevor Lyness
2025-10-08 14:00
Cloudflare recently uncovered a race condition in Go's arm64 compiler, triggered by their high volume of HTTP requests—84 million per second. The investigation began after sporadic panics were detected in their services, which indicated potential stack corruption. Despite initial mitigation efforts, fatal panics persisted, prompting a deeper analysis. This situation highlights the complexities of maintaining software at scale. ⚙️🔍 #GoLang #Cloudflare #SoftwareEngineering #Debugging #CompilerBug
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Thea Heinen
2025-09-30 15:50
Discover how Payload, the open-source CMS with over 35,000 stars on GitHub, has been successfully ported to run entirely on Cloudflare's platform! 🚀 This new deployment allows users to set up a fully-configured CMS in just one click, offering serverless functionality. No more constant server maintenance or costs during inactive hours. The integration supports various use cases, making it easy for non-technical users to manage content effectively. Explore the possibilities! 💻✨ #PayloadCMS...
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Ricardo Tavares
2025-09-30 10:05
On September 29, 2025, Afghanistan experienced a nationwide Internet shutdown, impacting various sectors like business and education. 📉 The disruption began with a brief service interruption for wired providers, followed by a complete shutdown around 12:30 UTC. This has significant implications for banking, customs, and emergency communications. 📅 Television and radio networks are also expected to face challenges due to this outage. The situation remains uncertain as the shutdown is reported...
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David Belson
2025-09-29 14:00
🎉 Celebrating 15 years of Cloudflare's mission to build a better Internet! This year's Birthday Week highlighted key themes: promoting new monetization models and enhancing community engagement. Major announcements included plans to hire 1,111 interns in 2026 and support for open-source projects like Ladybird and Omarchy. Cloudflare also opened collaboration hubs in major cities and extended free access to developer tools for non-profits. For more details, check out the blog! #Cloudflare...
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Korinne Alpers
2025-09-26 14:00
🌐 Cloudflare has launched the private beta of AI Index, designed to enhance content discoverability for websites. With this new feature, an AI-optimized search index will be created automatically for your domain. 🛠️ This includes standard APIs like MCP server and search API, empowering content creators and AI builders alike. Site owners will control their index and can monetize access through new integrations. AI builders can subscribe to specific sites for updates, ensuring fair...
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Anni Wang
2025-09-26 14:00
🚀 Cloudflare has upgraded its core system, replacing NGINX with a new Rust-based proxy. This change enhances both speed and security across its network. The update cuts median response times by 10ms and boosts performance by 25%, ensuring faster service for millions of customers. Over the past year, major components were rebuilt, reducing latency and improving product release times. 🔒 This transformation celebrates 15 years of Cloudflare’s journey, enhancing its capabilities while maintaining...
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Matthew Bullock
2025-09-26 14:00
🌐 Cloudflare has launched two new tools to enhance website performance: Observatory and Smart Shield. Observatory, now in open beta, combines monitoring and actionable insights to help users improve application speed and resilience. This tool integrates real-user data, synthetic testing, error rates, and more for a comprehensive view of performance. 📊 Smart Shield complements Observatory by allowing users to quickly fix common performance issues with just a few clicks. Both tools are...
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Noah Maxwell Kennedy
2025-09-26 14:00
🌐 Understanding AS-SETs is crucial for network operators. These Internet Routing Registry objects allow the grouping of related networks, helping manage BGP routing effectively. 📊 Cloudflare Radar now provides a public listing to assist operators in monitoring AS-SET memberships. This ensures better route filtering and communication between networks. 🔍 AS-SETs play a vital role in BGP policies, helping define what networks should accept from providers. #Networking #BGP #ASSET #Cloudflare...
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Bryton Herdes
2025-09-26 13:00
🔍 Recent insights reveal a better way to utilize Model Context Protocol (MCP). Many agents currently expose tools directly to LLMs, but converting these tools into a TypeScript API yields better results. This method allows LLMs to manage more complex tools efficiently. When agents string multiple calls, this API approach simplifies the process and enhances performance. For more on MCP’s impact on AI capabilities, check the full article! #AI #MCP #TechInnovation #TypeScript #LLM
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Sunil Pai
2025-09-26 13:00
Cloudflare has made significant strides in reducing cold starts for Workers, achieving a 10x improvement. The new technique, called "Worker sharding," utilizes a consistent hash ring to enhance routing efficiency across their global network. This builds on the previous method of pre-warming Workers during TLS handshakes. Cold starts, the time taken to initiate a Worker, can now be minimized, ensuring requests are handled more swiftly. Learn more about these advancements! 🚀🌐 #Cloudflare...
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Harris Hancock
2025-09-26 13:00
🌐 Cloudflare Radar has introduced new features for enhanced Internet monitoring. 🔍 The updated platform now includes regional traffic insights, allowing users to view data on a more localized level. This means you can track Internet trends based on specific regions, rather than just at a national scale. 📜 Additionally, a Certificate Transparency dashboard has been added, providing detailed monitoring of TLS certificate activity. This builds on Cloudflare's ongoing efforts in this area since...
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Luke Valenta
2025-09-26 13:00
🌐 Cloudflare is dedicated to being the fastest network globally, as demonstrated in their latest performance update for Birthday Week 2025. 📊 They measure network speed by analyzing TCP connection times from major networks, ensuring the results reflect real user experiences. Currently, Cloudflare ranks as the fastest in 40% of the top 1,000 networks. 🔍 The company continuously collects data through Real User Measurements, allowing them to identify areas for improvement. #Cloudflare...
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Lai Yi Ohlsen
2025-09-26 06:00
Cloudflare has announced enhancements to its global network performance. By analyzing extensive traffic data, they are optimizing their congestion control system to handle Internet-scale congestion more efficiently. 🌐 Early results show an average speed increase of 10% across their network. This improvement is driven by new algorithmic methods that leverage insights from their vast Free Plan user base. 🚀 These updates aim to ensure faster and more reliable connections for all customers. 📈...
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Richard Boulton
2025-09-25 14:00
🚀 Cloudflare has launched the private beta of its Email Service, allowing developers to send and receive emails directly from Workers without needing API keys. This service simplifies transactional email workflows, enhancing user communication for applications. It integrates email sending with Cloudflare's existing Email Routing, ensuring reliability and speed in email delivery. Key features include automatic DNS configuration for better deliverability, ease of use in development, and...
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Celso Martinho
2025-09-25 14:00
🌐 Exciting news from Cloudflare! The Cloudflare Data Platform has launched, offering a fully-managed suite for ingesting, storing, and querying analytical data. Key features include Cloudflare Pipelines for event processing, R2 Data Catalog for metadata management, and R2 SQL for large-scale queries. These tools are designed for ease of use and affordability, eliminating traditional cloud infrastructure challenges. You can integrate with popular query engines and platforms without worrying...
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Jérôme Schneider
2025-09-25 14:00
🌍 AI sovereignty is a key focus for governments worldwide, aiming to harness AI for national growth while addressing potential risks. Countries are exploring various strategies, from self-sufficiency to forming partnerships, to maintain control over AI technologies. Cloudflare emphasizes that true AI sovereignty means having diverse options, control over data, and avoiding vendor lock-in. Their mission supports local developers in deploying AI tools effectively. Discover how nations can...
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Michelle Chen
2025-09-25 14:00
🌐 Cloudflare continues to enhance its developer platform! Recent updates include support for more Node.js APIs, improved AI Search capabilities, and increased resources for Workers Builds. Developers can now deploy larger containers and run more concurrent headless browsers. New tools like the Cloudflare Email Service and VibeSDK are also available, making it easier to build and connect applications. Stay updated on these advancements! 🚀💻 #Cloudflare #DeveloperPlatform #WebDevelopment #AI...
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Korinne Alpers
2025-09-25 14:00
🚀 Cloudflare is making every feature accessible to all customers, regardless of account type. Starting with Single Sign-On (SSO), users can now access advanced tools without needing to engage with sales teams or sign contracts. This initiative aims to remove barriers and promote a more secure Internet. More features will be rolled out in the coming months. Stay tuned! 🌐✨ #Cloudflare #TechUpdates #InternetSecurity #Innovation #SSO
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Dane Knecht
2025-09-25 14:00
🚀 Exciting news for developers! Cloudflare has partnered with PlanetScale to simplify full-stack application deployment using Cloudflare Workers. You can now directly connect to PlanetScale databases, such as Postgres and MySQL, enhancing your app's performance and reliability. With this integration, connections are optimized through Hyperdrive, ensuring fast access to your databases. Plus, the process is secure and user-friendly, eliminating the hassle of managing API keys manually....
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Adrian Gracia
2025-09-25 14:00
🚀 Excited to introduce R2 SQL, a serverless query engine that enables quick analytics on vast datasets without the need for separate services! 🔍 This innovative tool allows retrieval SQL queries directly against your R2 Data Catalog, utilizing Apache Iceberg for efficient data management. 🌐 R2 SQL tackles challenges in data I/O and compute by intelligently pruning data and distributing tasks globally, ensuring efficiency and speed. #Cloudflare #R2SQL #DataAnalytics #Serverless #ApacheIceberg
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Jérôme Schneider
2025-09-25 14:00
Cloudflare Workers is enhancing security with new software and hardware features. We utilize defense-in-depth strategies, including V8 sandboxes and memory protection keys, to safeguard your data while running third-party code on our infrastructure. The V8 JavaScript runtime is key to our approach, designed to run safely under adversarial conditions. Our ongoing updates focus on leveraging the latest advancements to keep Workers secure. 🔒💻 #Cloudflare #CyberSecurity #Serverless...
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Ketan Gupta
2025-09-25 13:00
🌐 Cloudflare Workers has made significant strides in Node.js compatibility over the past year. Hundreds of new Node.js APIs are now available, enabling developers to run existing Node.js code effortlessly. This includes support for popular npm modules and frameworks like Express. Key libraries like console, crypto, and http have been carefully implemented to match Node.js behavior closely. For more details on the expanded compatibility, check the documentation. #Cloudflare #Nodejs...
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James M Snell
2025-09-24 14:00
Cloudflare has updated its CSAM Scanning Tool to enhance accessibility for all customers. Previously, a requirement for credentials from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) created barriers for smaller site owners. Now, this requirement has been removed, leading to a significant increase in tool adoption. The updated tool uses fuzzy hashing to identify modified images with high accuracy. The process is now simpler: activate the tool, scan for potential CSAM, and...
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Rachael Truong
2025-09-24 14:00
🚀 Exciting updates on Internet security! Cloudflare has upgraded over 6 million domains to Automatic SSL/TLS for enhanced protection. This service automatically scans and strengthens security without any action from users. As we prepare for future advancements, the focus is on evolving TLS protocols and integrating post-quantum cryptography to safeguard data against emerging threats. Learn more about these important developments! 🔒🌐 #InternetSecurity #Cloudflare #TLS #Cybersecurity...
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Yawar Jamal