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LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix
Tiny Little Office
We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
OpenCode 2.0
Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle
The road we were told not to take
Show HN: Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript
Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It
WAF - WAF Release - 2026-10-14 - Emergency
This emergency release adds a new managed rule to block active exploitation of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability found in popular web frameworks. Key Findings Key Findings Generic Rules - Remote Code Execution: Attackers…
Read original →Workers - Workers Builds tooling defaults updated
Workers Builds now uses updated default versions of supported runtimes and package managers: Tool Previous version New version Node.js 24.18.0 24.21.0 Yarn 4.9.1 4.18.1 Bun 1.2.15 1.4.3 Python 3.13.3 3.14.8 Ruby 3.4.7 3.4.11 Go 1.24.3 1.27.2…
Read original →Rules - Remove surrounding bytes with trim functions
Cloudflare Rules supports three new functions for removing surrounding bytes. Use them to remove whitespace before comparing request values. All HTTP products support these functions on all plans: trim() removes bytes from both ends. trim_start() removes…
Read original →DNS - Configure Advanced Custom Nameservers with nameserver sets (beta)
Nameserver sets are now available in beta to Enterprise accounts. A nameserver set groups two to five custom nameserver names with Cloudflare-assigned IP addresses. You can assign the set to zones in the same account. Enterprise…
Read original →Cloudflare One, Access - Infrastructure applications support a configurable session duration
Infrastructure applications now have a configurable session duration with a default value of 24 hours. You can set the session duration when creating or editing an infrastructure application in the dashboard or via the API. When…
Read original →PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery
OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add
The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web
Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev
DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?
Flydubai FZ1073 saga: Iran theorizes it was an Israeli false-flag operation
Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
Workers, BYOIP, Bots - Workers subrequests now preserve context for BYOIP destinations
Cloudflare now preserves Workers context when a subrequest targets a Cloudflare-proxied hostname using Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP). These requests are identified as Cloudflare-to-Cloudflare traffic instead of external Internet traffic. Previously, some BYOIP subrequests could lose…
Read original →Cloudflare Web Analytics - Deeper Core Web Vitals Diagnostics: LCP & INP Sub-Part Metrics in Real User Monitoring
The Core Web Vitals tell you whether a page is slow but beyond perceived load time, layout instability, or responsiveness they do not guide you to the problematic area directly. To help you with this, Real…
Read original →Agents - New persistent browser tool in the Agents SDK, with tabs and logins that last between turns
The Cloudflare Agents SDK now provides a browserTool that gives your agent a Browser Run browser it can return to on later turns. Your agent can open a website, inspect a page, and come back to…
Read original →Agents, Workers - Cloudflare API MCP server sends Workers Issues as MCP Events
Workers Issues provides built-in error monitoring for Cloudflare Workers. It detects production failures and groups related failures into issues without an SDK or application wrapper. The Cloudflare API MCP server now sends these issues as MCP…
Read original →Gateway, Cloudflare One - Request Gateway DNS64 through DNS locations and EDNS
You can now request DNS64 through Cloudflare Gateway DNS location settings or Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) options. DNS64 synthesizes AAAA records from A records for IPv6-only networks. These networks require network address translation from IPv6…
Read original →Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Client for Windows (version 2026.8.2110.0)
A new GA release for the Windows Cloudflare One Client is now available on the stable releases downloads page. This hotfix resolves an issue where the client could repeatedly disconnect and reconnect when a split tunnel…
Read original →Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Client for macOS (version 2026.8.2110.0)
A new GA release for the macOS Cloudflare One Client is now available on the stable releases downloads page. This hotfix resolves an issue where the client could repeatedly disconnect and reconnect when a split tunnel…
Read original →Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Client for Linux (version 2026.8.2110.0)
A new GA release for the Linux Cloudflare One Client is now available on the stable releases downloads page. This hotfix resolves an issue where the client could repeatedly disconnect and reconnect when a split tunnel…
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