Open AI’s Astra model is on the way—and very good at breaking into computer systems
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
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FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
FTC says firm replaces actual ad-auction results "with higher prices set by Amazon."
Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns
Flock's searchable network of 130,000 license plate cameras around the U.S. have sparked bipartisan privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed
New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff
Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf
August 27 update reportedly scrambles cursor customizations as bogus antivirus alerts spread
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325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species is possible with sustained effort. — Andrew Digby, providing the bes
Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes
Director Dave Green's live action/animated hybrid captures smart, subversive weirdness of the classic cartoons.
Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage
A milestone in expanding access to AI
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
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Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns
Flock's searchable network of 130,000 license plate cameras around the U.S. have sparked bipartisan privacy and civil liberties concerns.
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed
New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it, and found two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping OTC.
How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal
Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026.
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat lands
Meet our new IETF NOC Lead
Joe Clarke has been appointed as the new IETF Network Operations Center (NOC) Lead and in this post Joe introduces himself and sets out his priorities for the IETF Network.
Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how
Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.
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