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A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Linguistic humor, Foreign hotel signs
Factorio that you can touch
Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot
Allow Carriers on Planes
First Principles Thinking
The Test
Workers - Workers tracing — new getActiveSpan(), recordException(), startSpan(), and setAttributes() APIs
Custom spans in Workers now support more of the OpenTelemetry span API, so you can instrument more of your code and record errors directly on your spans. tracing.startSpan(name) creates a span without making it the active…
Read original →WAF - WAF Release - 2026-09-25 - Emergency
This update provides immediate defense against critical vulnerabilities affecting WordPress and JFrog Artifactory, including path traversal, local file inclusion (LFI), cross-site scripting (XSS), and authentication bypass exploits. Key Findings CVE-2026-87902: A high-severity Path Traversal and Local…
Read original →Workers - See every release and gradual deployment on Workers Metrics charts
Workers Metrics charts now show every release in the selected time range, including the full progression of gradual deployments. This makes it easier to correlate changes in memory, CPU time, errors, or latency with the code…
Read original →Email Service - Suppress recipients for one sending domain
Email Sending suppressions now have a scope: account: The suppression applies to every sending domain and subdomain in your account. This is the default. sending_domain: The suppression applies to one sending domain only. A suppression for…
Read original →Cloudflare Network Firewall, Magic Transit, Cloudflare WAN - Managed Rulesets supported in Unified Routing
Cloudflare Advanced Network Firewall Managed Rulesets are now supported for accounts using Unified Routing mode. For the full list of feature availability, refer to Check feature availability before upgrading.
Read original →Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
California is chasing wealth that has feet
Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi
Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different Protection
Nokia Design Archive (2025)
R2 - R2 bandwidth usage metrics
New R2 product-level Metrics page in the Cloudflare dashboard shows bandwidth usage. You can view usage across all buckets or per bucket. Go to R2 Metrics ↗ Bandwidth throughput is split by object upload and download. The…
Read original →1.1.1.1 - RFC 8509 root key trust anchor sentinel support
1.1.1.1 now supports RFC 8509 ↗ root key trust anchor sentinels. They let you check whether the responding resolver trusts a DNSSEC root key ahead of a key rollover. To check for KSK-2024 (key tag 38696),…
Read original →Access, Cloudflare One - MCP server portals are now generally available
MCP server portals are now generally available to all Cloudflare customers. A portal gives users one endpoint for approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Cloudflare Access logs tool, prompt, and resource activity. Since the open beta,…
Read original →Measuring the back/forward cache with Application Metrics
A bfcache hit leaves no trace in ordinary metrics. Here's how Sentry's bfcacheMetricsIntegration makes back/forward cache health measurable.
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