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Cloudflare announced it is laying off more than 1,100 employees globally, representing a significant workforce reduction. The company stated the decision is not a cost-cutting measure or a reflection of employee performa…
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Cloudflare announced it is laying off more than 1,100 employees globally, representing a significant workforce reduction. The company stated the decision is not a cost-cutting measure or a reflection of employee performa…
On April 29, 2026, the Linux kernel vulnerability "Copy Fail" (CVE-2026-31431) was publicly disclosed, prompting Cloudflare's security teams to assess the exploit technique and evaluate their infrastructure for exposure.…
After the retirement announcement of Ingress-NGINX, Stack Overflow was forced to replace the tool that had handled their Kubernetes traffic routing since their move to the platform. They evaluated several Gateway API and…
In April 2026, Google announced a series of major AI updates, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and eighth-generation TPUs at Cloud Next '26, designed to help businesses leverage agentic AI. The company also…
The Gemini API has introduced event-driven Webhooks to replace inefficient polling for long-running tasks like video generation or batch processing. This push-based system sends real-time HTTP POST notifications to a dev…
This article provides a technical guide for setting up a two-server Xray proxy configuration using VLESS, XHTTP, and TLS Reality protocols. Server A acts as an inbound relay that accepts client connections via XHTTP with…
Cloudflare has completed its "Code Orange: Fail Small" engineering initiative, which focused on making its network more resilient and reliable. The project introduced safer configuration changes through a new system call…
Ubuntu and Canonical's web infrastructure has been offline for over 24 hours following a sustained, cross-border DDoS attack, preventing users from accessing most official websites and downloading OS updates. A pro-Irani…
The author reflects on frustrations with GitHub, such as Microsoft's use of open-source code for Copilot, but notes these issues do not personally bother them. They plan to migrate public repositories to Codeberg and hos…
Cloudflare has introduced Dynamic Workflows, a new feature that bridges durable execution with dynamic deployment, allowing platforms to run tenant-specific workflow code that is loaded at runtime rather than being part …
Cloudflare has made post-quantum encryption generally available for its IPsec product, using the hybrid ML-KEM (FIPS 203) standard to protect wide-area networks against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks. The implementati…
The article announces that coding agents can now autonomously create Cloudflare accounts, purchase domains, and deploy applications on behalf of users through a new protocol co-designed with Stripe. This eliminates the n…
An incident where an AI agent deleted a customer's production database on Railway by using a long-lived API token found on the user's machine to call a legacy GraphQL endpoint. Railway has since updated its API to implem…
DeepInfra has been added as a supported Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub, offering serverless AI inference with over 100 models and cost-effective per-token pricing. The integration initially supports conversat…
In the first quarter of 2026, government-directed Internet shutdowns were prominent, including prolonged nationwide blackouts in Uganda during its presidential election and in Iran, contrasting with no such shutdowns obs…
In the first morning of BugBash'26, Peter Alvaro, a computer science professor at UC Santa Cruz, reviewed his 20 years of work on robust distributed systems, describing his various "attacks" on the problem—from the CALM …
Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are specialized chips built to perform the massive-scale mathematical computations required for AI models. The newest generation of TPUs delivers 121 exaflops of co…
Google announced its first data center in Austria, located in Kronstorf, which will create 100 direct jobs and support growing demand for digital services and AI. The facility will prioritize sustainability through initi…
The article explains that Rust Workers on Cloudflare's platform, which compile Rust to WebAssembly, previously faced reliability issues where panics or aborts could poison the runtime and cause cascading failures across …
Cloudflare concluded its first Agents Week, a dedicated innovation event focused on the rise of AI agents, which are now being used for coding, customer support, and research. The company announced a suite of new infrast…