Off-Prem Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
Networks Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about
AI + ML Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed
Devops Cloudflare revamps CLI as agents take over the internet What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human?
AI + ML Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots
AI + ML Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in
Security DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling
Networks Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages
Security Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild Where the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality
Patches Cloudflare whacks WAF bypass bug that opened side door for attackers ACME validation had a challenge-request hole
Legal Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech
Legal Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’
Networks Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action
Networks Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts
Cyber-crime Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks
Databases Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix
Networks Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along
Networks ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors
Networks Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity
Networks Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder Dashboard loop caused API outage that was hard to troubleshoot
Cyber-crime Microsoft blocks bait for ‘fastest-growing’ 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed
Cyber-crime How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?
Networks Power cuts, cable damage, and government shutdowns behind Q2 internet outages Loads of unexplained ones, too. Maybe normalize providing a freaking reason for multi-hour outages, mmm?
Networks Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three
AI + ML Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down
Cyber-crime Sneaky Serpentine#Cloud slithers through Cloudflare tunnels to inject orgs with Python-based malware Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my
PaaS + IaaS Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain
AI + ML Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
Software Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass
Networks Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements
Networks Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users Plus: 'Largest-ever' duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps
Legal What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This... Ex-politician in UK claims he's been defamed – and goes to court in US for answers
Off-Prem 2024 according to Cloudflare: Global traffic up, Google still king, US churning out bots Same old same old really
Cyber-crime The only thing worse than being fired is scammers fooling you into thinking you're fired Scumbags play on victims' worst fears in phishing campaign referencing UK Employment Tribunal
Off-Prem Cloudflare broke its logging-as-a-service service, causing customer data loss Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up
Networks Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP
AI + ML Cloudflare tightens screws on site-gobbling AI bots When robots.txt just ain't cutting the mustard
Security Uniting the brightest minds in security, network and cloud Immerse is Cloudflare’s premier annual conference in Southeast Asia
Off-Prem Cloudflare calls for regulatory harmonization amid rising internet challenges Removing security services not always the best way to tackle problematic content
Security Navigating the future of cybersecurity Take a deep dive into the world of emerging cyber threats and defense strategies with Cloudflare
Security Understanding escalating cyber threats Explore the latest trends in cybersecurity with expert insight from Cloudflare
Security Polyfill.io claims reveal new cracks in supply chain, but how deep do they go? There will always be bad actors in the system. We can always learn from the drama they create
Research Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown No supply-chain attacks to see over here!
Security Time to zero in on Zero Trust? Recently discovered vulnerabilities in VPN services should push ASEAN organizations to rethink their perimeter security approach
Cyber-crime FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn't like that one bit
Research ASEAN organizations dealing with growing cyber menace Cloudflare’s Everywhere Security platform offers unified protection for on and off-premise applications
Bootnotes Cloudflare CEO sues over free-roaming fidos at his ski resort paradise Who let the dogs out?
Off-Prem Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed
Security Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage
Networks Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss
Security The ever-present state of cyber security alert Should you be paying more attention to securing your AI models from attack?
Off-Prem Cloudflare joins the 'we found ways to run our kit for longer' club Finds modest savings, but isn't modest about ability to land big customers or sell AI
CSO Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion
On-Prem Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain It's certainly not a layoff, net-taming biz insists
Networks Cloudflare dishes up the stats on internet traffic in 2023 Web's growing, Google's gloating, and US bots are roaming
On-Prem Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain
Off-Prem Cloudflare dashboard, API service feeling poorly due to datacenter power snafu Right on time for results day
Cyber-crime 1Password confirms attacker tried to pull list of admin users after Okta intrusion Says logins are safe, as high-profile customers complain they knew about the breach before Okta
Systems Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo
CSO HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second
AI + ML Cloudflare loosens AI from the network edge using GPU-accelerated Workers Isn't that how Skynet took over?
Software No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret
Cyber-crime Pulling the strings The critical rise of generative AI use in ransomware attacks on applications
Networks Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks Prefers open peering – from which it profits
Security Record-breaking number of record-breaking DDoS attacks confirmed And growing abuse of cloud – because using hijacked Brazilian cable modems to down sites is so 2013
Off-Prem Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle Those who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this
Security Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money Also, TLC gets schooled by Karakurt, and Cloudflare is offering free zero trust stuff to some small companies
SaaS Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants Cash flow is king, even in the cloud
Security Cloudflare finds a way through China's network defences Teams with locals to allow consistent security policy to make it through the Great Firewall
Software Azure extends DDoS attack protection down to small business users, for a fee Microsoft moves IP Protection into public preview
Research Robin Banks crooks back at the table with fresh phish from Russia Phishing-as-a-service group's toolset now includes ways to get around MFA
Security It's 2058. A quantum computer is just another decade away. Still, you curse Cloudflare Assuming this Kyber TLS stuff works as expected
Software Cloudflare's invisible CAPTCHA works by probing browsers with JavaScript Beta-grade widget respects your privacy, we're promised
PaaS + IaaS Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site Escalation of targeted threats is an 'emergency' that required 'dangerous' decision 'we are not comfortable with,' says CEO
Security Cloudflare: Someone tried to pull the Twilio phishing tactic on us too Attack was foiled by content delivery network's hardware security keys
Research Student crashes Cloudflare beta party, redirects email, bags a bug bounty Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000
Cyber-crime Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days
Off-Prem Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg?
Cyber-crime Meet Mantis – the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack
Virtualization Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions
PaaS + IaaS Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back
Off-Prem Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet 'Network engineers walked over each other's changes'
Security Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg
Off-Prem AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage
PaaS + IaaS Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement
Networks Cloudflare offers $100,000 for prior art to nuke networking patents a troll has accused it of ripping off
Networks In the old days, coups started by seizing TV and radio stations. Now they crimp the internet at 3am
Personal Tech Cloudflare, Dropbox, Reddit and friends launch Section 230 compromise coalition as change seems inevitable
Security Oblivious DoH, OPAQUE passwords, Encrypted Client Hello: Cloudflare's protocol proposals to protect privacy
Networks QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare
Networks Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact
SaaS Cloudflare's new serverless platform lets its Workers run for 15 minutes before giving them the boot
Networks Finally, made it to the weekend, time to breathe, relax, and... Cloudflare's taken down a chunk of the web
Networks QUIC, dig in: Microsoft open-sources MsQuic, its implementation of Google-spawned TCP-killer QUIC
SaaS Cloudflare goes retro with COBOL delivery service. Older coders: Who's laughing now? Turns out we're still vital
Security Cloudflare dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, moves to hCaptcha as free ride ends (and something about privacy)
Security Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'
Networks Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG
Networks Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet
Software Cloudflare buys browser isolation biz S2 Systems in bid to realize Sun's network computing vision at long last
Networks Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings
SaaS Cloudflare comes clean on crashing a chunk of the web: How small errors and one tiny bit of code led to a huge mess
SaaS Cloudflare gave everyone a 30-minute break from a chunk of the internet yesterday: Here's how they did it
Networks This major internet routing blunder took A WEEK to fix. Why so long? It was IPv6 – and no one really noticed
SaaS I got 502 problems, and Cloudflare sure is one: Outage interrupts your El Reg-reading pleasure for almost half an hour
SaaS Cloudflare hits the deck, websites sink from sight after the internet springs yet another BGP leak
SaaS 23. 712. 3. 608. 45. 89. 11. 332. 841. 255. You want more? Cloudflare and pals are streaming 'em live from new RNG API
Networks Cloudflare invites folk to dabble in the 'distributed web' with InterPlanetary File System gateway
Networks Cloudflare touts privacy-friendly 1.1.1.1 public DNS service. Hmm, let's take a closer look at that
Security Citrix patches Netscaler hole, ARM TrustZone twisted, Android Dirty COW exploited – and more security fails
Legal Cloudflare: We dumped Daily Stormer not because they're Nazis but because they said we love Nazis
Legal Cloudflare goes berserk on next-gen patent troll, vows to utterly destroy it using prior-art bounties
