Cloudflare has open-sourced a debugger for privacy protocols used by Apple and Microsoft, designed with AI agents in mind. The tool aims to help developers verify that privacy-preserving systems like …
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is promoting agentic finance as the company's x402 payment protocol has processed over 100 million machine-to-machine transactions in nine months, with 30-day volumes reac…
A developer discovered that their Sentry monitoring integration for a Cloudflare Worker fleet was silently failing. Despite deploying Sentry.withMonitor() without errors, the cron monitor never regist…
A developer building workers-monitor, a Cloudflare Worker that monitors a fleet of Workers, discovered two bugs where code compiled and ran without errors but failed to perform its intended function. …
A developer scanned 671,693 domains with MX records and found that DMARC enforcement dropped 0.42 percentage points despite 9,173 new DMARC domains, with 117,384 domains publishing inert 'p=none' reco…
GoodWebTools, a set of privacy-first web tools that run entirely in the browser using WebAssembly, canvas, and on-device machine learning, has been launched at goodwebtools.com. The tools process file…
Cloudflare launched granular AI traffic controls this month, replacing its single 'block AI bots' toggle with three independently configurable categories—Search, Agent, and Training—available to all c…
A security service blocked access to a page about an Edge AI traffic counter using YOLO11 and RK3576, triggered by a potential online attack. The site owner can be contacted for resolution, with the C…
Cloudflare replaced its one-click AI bot block with three per-purpose controls — Search, Agent, and Training — available on every plan starting July 1, and announced that from September 15, pages disp…
Cloudflare announced new crawler rules on July 1 that classify all automated traffic into Search, Agent, or Training behaviors, with mixed-use crawlers subject to the most restrictive rule, directly t…
The Numbers, a film industry data website founded in 1997, was forced offline for months after a surge of automated bot traffic, primarily from LLM-related crawlers and prediction markets like Polymar…
Systems engineer Farid Zakaria published a command-line client on July 9 that bypasses Xe Iaso's Anubis proof-of-work bot wall, demonstrating that the defense primarily stops low-effort scrapers unabl…
Cloudflare has deployed AI traffic management at the edge, offloading provider switching and load balancing from application code to the network level. The deployment involves configuring the AI Gatew…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic options for its customers, allowing them to control how AI bots and crawlers access their content. The options include blocking all AI bots, allowing only specific …
Cloudflare and AWS now let website owners charge AI crawlers per request using HTTP 402, turning a dormant 1997 status code into a toll booth for machines. Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl in July 20…
Major online publishers including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are debating whether to block Google's crawlers as the tech giant's AI summaries reduce traffic and reuse cont…
An experiment by The New York Times found that AI agents, using Anthropic's Claude Cowork app, could perform some office tasks but struggled with nuanced human language and user interfaces. The agents…
A developer who posted 31 articles on DEV found that a post with 300 views and zero reactions attracted search traffic as a technical manual, while a post with only 47 views and five comments sparked …
Code mode, which prompts LLMs to generate executable code instead of structured tool-call signatures, can help smaller models perform tool calling more reliably without additional training, according …
Storyblok's free Community plan caps at 10,000 CDN calls per month, which a small site with 1,000 visitors making 10 API calls per session can exhaust, according to a pricing guide. The Starter plan (…