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For 96 years, the World Cup has been a global phenomenon, uniting nations and communities through a shared love of sportsmanship. While its popularity is nothing new, what is novel today is how rare a truly collective global experience has become. In an era defined by microtrend…
Starting today, Cloudflare Internal DNS is generally available. Cloudflare Internal DNS provides authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks on the same global network and control plane customers already use for public DNS, Zero Trust, networking, and application servic…
Cloudflare has deployed new Web Application Firewall (WAF) protections for two critical vulnerabilities affecting WordPress. The protections address an Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in WordPress's REST API and a related SQL Injection vulnerability. Th…
A broken DNSSEC rollover took down .AL. Now 1.1.1.1 tells you when validation is bypassed 2026-07-14 Sebastiaan Neuteboom On July 3, 2026, the Albanian communications authority (AKEP), the operator of the .AL country-code top-level domain (TLD) of Albania, attempted a DNSSEC key…
Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals 2026-07-13 Marina Elmore Benedikt Wolters Bot mitigation is an adversarial game: attackers adapt, defenders respond, and the cycle continues. At Cloudflare, we stay ahead by combining visibilit…
Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions 2026-07-10 Chenxi Zhang In 2021, we shipped Smart Tiered Cache. The idea: for each origin behind your site, Cloudflare picks the single best upper-tier data center to route through, based on real-time latency. Flip one switch…
Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms 2026-07-09 Bas Westerbaan Christopher Patton RSA and ECC, cryptographic algorithms that we’ve all relied on for decades, are vulnerable to the attack of sufficiently advanced quantum computers. Such quantum computer…
Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus 2026-07-08 James Larisch Bob Halley João Pedro Leite Many internal services at Cloudflare need to read and modify the same control-plane state from across our 330+ global data centers. They need guarantees that different rea…
Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge 2026-07-07 Katie Visser Ling Wu Today, the UK government launched the Cyber Resilience Pledge: a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cybersecurity governance, board-level accoun…
Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it 2026-07-06 Dan Lapid Connor Harwood Today we are launching Workers Cache: a tiered cache that sits in front of your Worker, configured by a single line of Wrangler config and the same Cache-Control headers you already know. W…
Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet 2026-07-01 Arielle Weiss Zach Albertson Emily Lanfear One year ago, we declared Content Independence Day. At the time, we could see what many in the industry were beginning to sense: the…
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 2026-07-01 Rohin Lohe Justin Ridgely Will Papper Today, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asse…
Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers 2026-07-01 Jin-Hee Lee Bryan Becker One year ago, we declared the first Content Independence Day, and we gave website owners the means to take back control of their content. The deal between crawlers and website own…
Making AI search smarter 2026-07-01 Matthew Conroy Search drives most experiences on the web. It's how we get things done, and how nearly everything on the web gets found — the creators, the merchants, the answer to whatever you just typed into a box. For nearly 30 years, that d…
Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights 2026-07-01 Jin-Hee Lee Oliver Payne Original content is the lifeblood of conversations and curiosities. Imagine a world without it: we could find a thousand ways to regurgitate the same material that’s already been created,…