Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on June 27, 2024
IntroductionOn June 27, 2024, a small number of users globally may have noticed that 1.1.1.1 was unreachable or degraded. The root cause was a mix of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a...
First Round of French Election: Party Attacks and a Modest Traffic Dip
This post is also available in Français. France is currently electing a new government through early legislative elections that began on Sunday, June 30, 2024, with a second round scheduled for J...
Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click
This post is also available in Português. To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all custome...
How the First 2024 US Presidential Debate Influenced Internet Traffic and Security Trends
Key findings:The Biden vs. Trump debate influenced Internet traffic at the state level in the US, with drops in traffic as high as 17% (in Vermont) during the debate.Microblogging and video strea...
Supporting Postgres Named Prepared Statements in Hyperdrive
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for Postgres protocol-level named prepared statements across pooled connections. Named prepar...
Embedded Function Calling in Workers AI: Easier, Smarter, Faster
Introducing embedded function calling and a new ai-utils packageToday, we’re excited to announce a novel way to do function calling that co-locates LLM inference with function execution, and a ne...
Automatically Replacing polyfill.io Links With Cloudflare’s Mirror for a Safer Internet
polyfill.io, a popular JavaScript library service, can no longer be trusted and should be removed from websites.Multiple reports, corroborated with data seen by our own client-side security syste...
Cloudflare Incident on June 20, 2024
On Thursday, June 20, 2024, two independent events caused an increase in latency and error rates for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 114 minutes. During the 30-minute peak...
Helping Keep Customers Safe With Leaked Password Notification
Password reuse is a real problem. When people use the same password across multiple services, it creates a risk that a breach of one service will give attackers access to a different, apparently ...
Using Machine Learning to Detect Bot Attacks That Leverage Residential Proxies
Bots using residential proxies are a major source of frustration for security engineers trying to fight online abuse. These engineers often see a similar pattern of abuse when well-funded, modern...
How the UEFA Euro 2024 Football Games Are Impacting Local Internet Traffic
Football (“soccer” in the US) is considered the most popular sport in the world, with around 3.5 billion fans spread across the world. European football is central to its popularity. The UEFA Eur...
Exam-Ining Recent Internet Shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria
The practice of cheating on exams (or at least attempting to) is presumably as old as the concept of exams itself, especially when the results of the exam can have significant consequences for on...
Patrick Finn: Why I Joined Cloudflare as VP Sales for the Americas
I’m delighted to be joining Cloudflare as Vice President of Sales in the US, Canada, and Latin America.I’ve had the privilege of leading sales for some of the world’s most iconic tech companies, ...
Introducing Stream Generated Captions, Powered by Workers AI
This post is also available in 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語 and 한국어. With one click, customers can now generate video captions effortlessly using Stream’s newest feature: AI-generated captions for on-demand v...
Celebrating 10 Years of Project Galileo
This post is also available in 繁體中文 and 한국어. One of the great benefits of the Internet has been its ability to empower activists and journalists in repressive societies to organize, communicate, ...