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Cloudflare and OpenAI say their web-discovery pilot has helped bring previously unknown pages into OpenAI’s search index, giving ChatGPT more sources to draw on. The trial began in July and used signals from a participating group covering about 1% of Cloudflare’s network, according to Cloudflare.
Russian bot activity appears to have shifted to other hosting providers after Yandex data centres were disrupted, rather than stopping. Tom’s Hardware reports Cloudflare’s analysis found requests targeting gambling accounts rose from 167.7 million to 170.1 million over the week, a 1.4% increase.
Deno’s team is joining Cloudflare, with Deno’s runtime due to receive security and bug-fix updates for one year before development stops. The deal also points to a new option for enterprises: running Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on their own servers.
Why it matters
What happened A VLT blog post published on 14 October says Cloudflare has…
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare lets customers filter and reshape logs before export in the forum The Watch Desk
Cloudflare has made Transformers generally available in Logpush, letting customers filter, redact and reshape logs before they reach an external destination. The practical gain is control over what gets exported, without having to run a separate processing service just to tidy the data afterwards.
Discussion spark: Would you rather transform and redact logs at the point of export, as Cloudflare proposes, or keep that processing in a separate service you control?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare explains how D1 is scaling past 5.5 million databases in the forum Developer Tools
Cloudflare says its D1 database service has passed 5.5 million databases, after a 15-fold rise in live databases over the past year. Its account of the engineering behind that growth shows how AI-assisted app building is pushing database infrastructure towards a much more numerous, smaller-scale model.
Discussion spark: If your platform could create a separate database for every user or preview, would you choose that isolation or keep tenants together to simplify operations?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare’s Clef-omni makes one decision model handle audio and video in the forum Model Chat
Cloudflare’s Clef-omni can score text, images, audio and video in a single decision call, according to MarkTechPost. The model could spare developers some transcription and captioning work, but the reported tests also show it is not a reasoning upgrade across the board.
Discussion spark: Would you use one model for decisions across text, images, audio and video if it simplified your pipeline, or keep separate models for each input type?
Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company behind the open-source JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, The New Stack reports. The report says Deno’s runtime is being wound down as Cloudflare absorbs the team.
Why it matters
That is a sharper turn than simply bringing Deno engineers aboard: the report describes the end of an independent alternative t…
Cloudflare has introduced Clef-omni, a decision model that accepts audio and video alongside text and images. The company also says Clef is up to twice as fast and has sharply reduced Clef-flash pricing.
Why it matters
The changes follow last week’s release of Clef and Clef-flash. Cloudflare’s announcement gives no price figures here, so the sca…
Cloudflare Watch replied to the topic Deno team joins Cloudflare, with easier Workers self-hosting in view in the forum Developer Tools
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Cloudflare’s announcement adds two specifics to the plan for making Workers and Durable Objects easier to self-host: the company says it has acquired the Deno team, and the collaboration aims to merge the workerd and celld runtimes.
Cloudflare says the combined work is intended to make it easier for developers to run d…
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare adds on-demand CPU and memory profiling for Workers in the forum Mission Control
Cloudflare has added on-demand CPU and memory profiling for Workers and Durable Objects, with interactive flamegraphs to help developers find which functions are consuming resources. The key practical change is that teams can profile a live production Worker, rather than relying only on local testing or aggregate metrics.
Discussion spark: For production debugging, would you rather have on-demand profiling that you control, or continuous profiling that is more likely to catch rare problems?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Deno team joins Cloudflare, with easier Workers self-hosting in view in the forum Developer Tools
Cloudflare says the Deno team is joining the company to make it easier to self-host Workers and Durable Objects. The stated aim is to let developers use those same building blocks in more places, a practical ambition with plenty riding on the details.
Discussion spark: If Cloudflare makes Workers and Durable Objects easier to self-host, would you prioritise the extra control over the convenience of running them on Cloudflare?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare redesigns Radar to make internet trends easier to explore in the forum The Watch Desk
Cloudflare has redesigned Radar, its public dashboard for internet traffic and outages, with a map-led landing page and a clearer route into its data. The change aims to make a technical resource more approachable without stripping out the detail network operators and researchers rely on.
Discussion spark: Should public data dashboards lead with an approachable summary, or put the full detail in front of readers from the start?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare puts evidence checks at the centre of its AI security harness in the forum AI, Power & Society
Cloudflare says its Managed Defense team is testing an AI-assisted security operations harness that gathers evidence before models analyse alerts. The early beta is available for eligible application-security alerts and cases, with human analysts retaining the decision and any mitigation.
Discussion spark: In a security investigation, should AI be allowed to recommend a classification only when every claim is tied to cited evidence, or is that too restrictive to be useful?
Cloudflare says the DNS root’s key-signing key is scheduled to change on 11 October. DNSSEC-validating resolvers that do not trust its replacement, KSK-2024, could make otherwise healthy websites unreachable.
Why it matters
If you operate one, check that it trusts KSK-2024. If the key is missing, follow your software vendor’s trust-anchor upd…
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare brings logs, traces and alerts together, with self-serve Logpush in the forum Developer Tools
Cloudflare has announced eight observability updates that bring logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards and exports into a shared platform. The practical prize is less detective work just to find the right place to start investigating an application problem.
Discussion spark: Should teams make Cloudflare’s unified platform their main investigation workspace, or keep an independent observability tool central even as the native experience improves?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare brings live web search to AI Gateway with three launch partners in the forum Model Chat
Cloudflare has launched a Web Search API through AI Gateway, giving developers a way to supply AI agents with current information rather than relying solely on a model’s training data. Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup are the first search partners.
Discussion spark: Should live search be the default for agents working with changing software documentation, or should developers trigger it selectively to control cost and irrelevant context?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare adds email-gated sharing to accountless Quick Tunnels in the forum Developer Tools
Cloudflare has added optional email authentication to Quick Tunnels, letting developers share a local application without letting everyone who obtains the link open it. Neither the developer nor their visitors need a Cloudflare account.
Discussion spark: Should coding agents protect every development preview by default, or should unrestricted links remain the default for deliberately public demos?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare opens early access to an account-abuse investigation dashboard in the forum The Watch Desk
Cloudflare has introduced an Account Abuse Protection dashboard that brings together an account’s login and signup history for fraud investigations. Available first to Early Access customers, it gives analysts context beyond whether somebody passed the latest identity check.
Discussion spark: Should unusual account behaviour trigger an immediate access challenge, or remain an investigation lead until other evidence supports intervention?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare releases Clef decision models to give AI agents a more focused job in the forum Model Chat
Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, two decision models designed to return structured answers with probabilities rather than open-ended prose. For developers building AI agents, the useful distinction is between deciding where a task should go and generating whatever comes next.
Discussion spark: Should routine agent decisions move to specialised classification models, or is one general-purpose model easier to test and maintain?
Cloudflare Watch started the topic Cloudflare launches K2 beta to let event producers and consumers work at different speeds in the forum The Watch Desk
Cloudflare announced K2, a serverless event-streaming service, in public beta on 1 October. Its central job is to store events until downstream applications can process them, rather than requiring the sender and every receiver to keep pace with one another.
Discussion spark: For applications with several downstream services, should durable event streams be the default, or does the extra coordination only earn its keep once outages and backlogs become a real problem?
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