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Cloudflare analyzed AI bot and crawler traffic to fine-tune automatic bot detection models.
Network and security giant Cloudflare and password manager maker 1Password said hackers briefly targeted their systems following a recent breach of Okta’s support unit. Both Cloudflare and 1Password said their…
Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models
Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run…
Organizations increasingly see observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic, more…
Cloudflare reaches $1B run rate, promises $5B in 5 years. Investors? Not impressed
Cloudflare announced a $1 billion run rate and a five-year goal of $5 billion, but Wall Street still treated it shabbily the following day.
Cloudflare recently announced a $1.25 billion funding program for startups that use its Workers software with VCs footing the bill.
Ahead of its Connect conference in October, Cloudflare this week announced an ambitious new project called Turnstile, which seeks to do away with the CAPTCHAs used throughout the web to…
Cloudflare takes aim at AWS with promise of $1.25 billion to startups that use its own platform
Cloudflare, the security, performance and reliability company that went public three years ago, said this morning that it will help connect startups that use its serverless computing platform to dozens…
Are smartphones ever entirely secure? It depends on one’s definition of “secure,” particularly when dealing with corporate environments. Most companies with bring-your-own-device policies install apps or agents on workers’ smartphones…
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How do you stop another Uber hack?
As cyberattacks get more sophisticated, some of the strongest security features — like MFA — are being defeated, thanks to weaknesses in human behavior.
Twilio hackers breached over 130 organizations during months-long hacking spree
The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised more than 130 organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. Twilio’s recent network…
The ruling against Juuling?
Hello and welcome back to Week in Review, your one-stop spot for the biggest stories from the week. Greg Kumparak is off enjoying the beginning of summer and has entrusted…
Daily Crunch: With $153M Series C, LeadSquared becomes India’s newest unicorn
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Apple is introducing new tech in iOS 16 to let you skip CAPTCHAs
It’s pretty annoying to go through CAPTCHA verification where you have to identify weird squiggly letters or click on images of the boat till there are none left — just…
A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday knocked out numerous popular web services, including major crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and OKX, raising questions about the security of centralized crypto platforms. The CEO…
Cloudflare fixes outage that knocked popular services offline
Cloudflare said on Tuesday it resolved a “wide-spread” outage earlier in the day that affected a large number of services including FTX, Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN and Feedly. The…
Cloudflare outage hit Discord, other services in India
A Cloudflare outage in the India region that began earlier Wednesday caused several services including Discord, online insurer Acko, GitLab and SaaS platform OSlash to face performance issues in the…
Metrics alone don’t help you build a business. They can help you set targets, but they do little to help you hit those targets.
With new serverless database, Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services
When AWS launched its storage offering in 2006, it began a march to offer compute, storage and database services in the cloud. Google, Microsoft, Alibaba and IBM, among others, would…
Daily Crunch: PayPal Ventures leads $50M Series B for Egyptian fintech Paymob
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Cloudflare heads effort to make JavaScript environments interoperable
Cloudflare today announced that it’s collaborating with Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, and individual contributors of the Node.js open source project to create standards that enable…
The stock market is down, but these 4 tech companies prove there’s still good news out there
We took a look at earnings results from Cloudflare, Confluent, Amplitude and Appian to gauge how the market is treating even results that seem pretty darn solid.
Amazon, Microsoft and Google have suspended cloud sales in Russia
As the war in Ukraine continues, companies as varied as Exxon, Visa, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have suspended sales in Russia. Tech companies like Adobe, Apple and PayPal have joined in…
Cloudflare to acquire Area 1 Security, a startup that blocks phishing emails
Cloudflare has announced that it plans to acquire Area 1 Security, a security startup that has developed a product that stops phishing attacks before they land in an employee’s inbox.…
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Wordle founder Josh Wardle on going viral and what comes next
The internet loves an unlikely success story, and as we approached the new year, one came around the corner to delight us with a simple idea, and a short game to play it out: Wordle, where you guess a five-letter word in six tries, and then laugh and cry with…
Cloudflare says it has blocked a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at just under 2 Tbps, making it one of the largest ever recorded. The internet company said in…
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are slowly returning. Why did they disappear to begin with?
Facebook’s day-long outage is by far its longest and most extreme in years. At around 9 a.m. PDT on the U.S. West Coast — where the social giant is headquartered — Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger seemed to vanish from the internet. The outage continued through market close, with…
SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory
CEO Jeremy Johnson sees more competition coming into the global tech talent hiring space as he saw the number of Andela applicants increase 5x in the past six months.
Cloudflare to enter infrastructure services market with new R2 storage product
Cloudflare, which has a network of data centers in 250 locations around the world, announced its first dalliance with infrastructure services today, an upcoming cloud storage offering called R2. Company…
To the average person, Facebook’s monopoly seems obvious. But obviousness is not an antitrust standard. Monopoly has a clear legal meaning, and thus far Lina Khan’s FTC has failed to…
