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Vercel Connect adds observability support
Vercel Connect now gives teams line-level visibility into the token lifecycle. See who created a token, what app or project used it, when, and whether it is still active.Every connector's detail page includes a new Observability…
Read original →Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available
Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) gives organizations full control over the Vercel accounts tied to their verified domains. It makes the organization's identity provider the single source of truth for authentication and account lifecycle, so accounts on…
Read original →Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
You can now integrate 100+ services through Vercel Connect from the CLI. Previously, vercel connect create completed setup in the terminal for some services, and opened the dashboard for everything else.Pass the service name to create…
Read original →Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical…
Read original →Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie…
Read original →Your tokenmaxxing is not valuemaxxing
Ryan is joined by Coder’s Rob Whiteley to chat about why tokenmaxxing isn’t proving real value and just triggering Goodhart’s Law, how release speed and PR merges can help you measure agentic outcomes with or without…
Read original →Everything hackable will get hacked
Over the past year, AI models have become much more capable of performing cybersecurity work. These changes are reshaping both the threats facing the web and the tools available to defend it. Right now, defenders have…
Read original →DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
AI Gateway Production Index — August 2026Every month, AI Gateway routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs. That traffic gives us a view of what AI usage actually looks like in…
Read original →A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
Running untrusted code safely requires more than separating it from the host. You also have to control what that code can reach.This matters more as AI agents gain the ability to read files, execute commands, install…
Read original →Everything we launched during Agents Week
Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made, from Wallets to Radar.
Read original →Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images
Today we are introducing Vercel Managed Images (VMI), a set of versioned, open-source base images you can use as-is or extend. The source for every image lives in the public vercel/sandbox repository.Managed images replace Sandbox runtimes,…
Read original →Animating CSS border-image
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects. Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with…
Read original →SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter…
Read original →Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.
Read original →Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint
The Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now supports Bun.serve() as a function entrypoint, including WebSocket handlers. The server you run locally with Bun deploys as-is, without being wrapped in a framework.Enable the runtime by setting "bunVersion":…
Read original →Simplified onboarding for deepsec
deepsec, the open-source security review harness from Vercel, now lets you set up a repository and run its first security review with a single command.The init command now automates the standard setup process:creates the isolated .deepsec/…
Read original →Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from xAI is now available on AI Gateway.The model follows detailed instructions closely and plans typography and layout together, so dense, multi-part visuals like infographics, posters, and title screens hold their…
Read original →Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM. Access 200+ models through AI Gateway at no markup on tokens, and every…
Read original →Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
Vercel Container Registry now lets you make a repository public, so anyone with a Vercel account can pull and use its images.Sharing already granted read access to up to 100 teams, and making a repository public…
Read original →Using and Styling the Dialog Element
There's a lot of nuance to the element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it. Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and published with love on…
Read original →Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try…
Read original →How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
Read original →Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building…
Read original →Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.
Read original →Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.
Read original →How to be fearlessly AI native
Ryan welcomes McLaren Stanley, Senior Principal Engineer for Amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic engineering is shifting code bottlenecks downstream to testing and deployment, and why robust…
Read original →Audit Log Drains now support Datadog, Splunk, and Panther
Audit Log Drains now stream your team's audit events into Datadog, Splunk, and Panther, joining the existing custom HTTPS endpoint and Amazon S3 destinations. An Audit Log Drain forwards every event from your team's Activity Log,…
Read original →Free domain now included with new Pro subscriptions
New Pro subscriptions now include a domain free for the first year. The offer covers six TLDs:.online .site .space .store .tech .websiteEach team has 30 days after subscribing to claim one domain, either at checkout or…
Read original →2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys
A few notes and takeaways from the 2026 State of CSS survey results, including a nice CSS-Tricks cameo! 2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get…
Read original →Give any website a WebMCP interface
Today we're launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. With one switch, any site becomes usable by browser AI agents — no new APIs, no origin changes — while the human stays in control and…
Read original →The next generation of MCP
The next version of MCP has a rewritten, stateless core that just works on Workers. We cover upgrades to the protocol, the new feature lifecycle and SDK migration path, and hear from early adopters already running…
Read original →Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was…
Read original →Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable
Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools…
Read original →From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
More than half of requests now come from machines, not people. Agent Readiness shows how well agents can discover and read your site, while Answer Engine Optimization tracks how often AI assistants recommend you.
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