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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…
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…
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…
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...
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.
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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.
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.
Cloudflare’s Gateway Authorization Proxy adds support for identity-aware policies for clientless devices, securing virtual desktops, and guest networks without a device client.
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.
Cloudflare’s mandatory authentication and independent MFA protect organizations by ensuring continuous enforcement, from the moment a machine boots until sensitive resources are accessed.
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.