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How the 2026 World Cup affected Internet traffic
We analyzed global HTTP traffic to explore how kickoff times, streaming habits, and hydration breaks reshaped online activity worldwide. From late-night traffic surges to halftime browsing spikes, here is how the world connected during the global tournament.
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Cloudflare Internal DNS is now generally available
Cloudflare Internal DNS brings authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks to the same global network and control plane that runs Cloudflare's Zero Trust, networking, and public DNS.
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Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities
Cloudflare has deployed two WAF rules in response to high-severity vulnerabilities disclosed to us by the WordPress security team. The new rules protect all Cloudflare customers using affected WordPress versions, but customers should still update immediately to a patched release
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A broken DNSSEC rollover took down .al. Now 1.1.1.1 tells you when validation is bypassed
When a failed DNSSEC key rollover took down the .al TLD, we deployed a Negative Trust Anchor to restore resolution. This time, though, clients didn't have to take our word for it: 1.1.1.1 returned EDE 33, a new DNS error code that signals directly in the response that DNSSEC validation was bypassed.
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Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.
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Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions
Smart Tiered Cache allows for precise upper tier selection for origins hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with customer-provided cloud region hints.
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Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms
NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We look at all of them, and argue that while they are in the works and show great potential, we should use ML-DSA for now — the best one currently available.
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Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus
Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.
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Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge
The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency.
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Your Worker can now have its own cache in front of it
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
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