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Advanced Terraform performance optimization
Advanced Terraform performance optimization
Codex app now available on Windows
Codex app now available on Windows
The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery
The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think Ten years ago AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI program, stunned the world by defeating the South Korean Go player Lee Sedol. And in the…
OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared
OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared
On February 28, OpenAI announced it had reached a deal that will allow the US military to use its technologies in classified settings. CEO Sam Altman said the negotiations, which the company began pursuing only after the Pentagon’s public reprimand of Anthropic, were “definitely rushed.” In its announcements, OpenAI took great pains to say that…
The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal
The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires Startup Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent catastrophic fires by stopping the lightning strikes that ignite them. So far, it hasn’t publicly…
It Wasn’t a Culture Problem: Upleveling Alert Development at Airbnb
How we changed our Observability as Code alert review process and cut development cycles from weeks to minutes.Observability as Code (OaC) — defining alerts, dashboards, and SLOs via code rather than UI — is table stakes for large engineering organizations. With OaC, observability adopts software development’s version control, code review, and testing processes, achieving the same level of discipline as a result. At Airbnb’s scale (thousands of engineers and services), this i...
Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)
Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything)
Join Senior Software Engineer Nick Krichevsky as he explains how Discord added distributed tracing to Elixir's message passing and optimized it to handle millions of concurrent users.
Measuring What Matters in Large Language Model Performance
Construct validity is foundational to strong benchmarking practices.
Always-on detections: eliminating the WAF “log versus block” trade-off
Always-on detections: eliminating the WAF “log versus block” trade-off
Cloudflare is introducing Attack Signature Detection and Full-Transaction Detection to provide continuous, high-fidelity security insights without the manual tuning of traditional WAFs. By correlating request payloads with server responses, we can now identify successful exploits and data exfiltration while minimizing false positives.
1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT
Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead
Apple Does Fusion
Apple Does Fusion
Stop reacting to breaches and start preventing them with User Risk Scoring
Stop reacting to breaches and start preventing them with User Risk Scoring
Cloudflare One now incorporates dynamic User Risk Scores into Access policies to enable automated, adaptive security responses. This update allows teams to move beyond binary "allow/deny" rules by evaluating continuous behavior signals from both internal and third-party sources.
Moving from license plates to badges: the Gateway Authorization Proxy
Moving from license plates to badges: the Gateway Authorization Proxy
Cloudflare’s Gateway Authorization Proxy adds support for identity-aware policies for clientless devices, securing virtual desktops, and guest networks without a device client.
Defeating the deepfake: stopping laptop farms and insider threats
Defeating the deepfake: stopping laptop farms and insider threats
Cloudflare One is partnering with Nametag to combat laptop farms and AI-enhanced identity fraud by requiring identity verification during employee onboarding and via continuous authentication.
Mind the gap: new tools for continuous enforcement from boot to login
Mind the gap: new tools for continuous enforcement from boot to login
Cloudflare’s mandatory authentication and independent MFA protect organizations by ensuring continuous enforcement, from the moment a machine boots until sensitive resources are accessed.
Anthropic's AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud
Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip
Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.