We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found
We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed test...
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Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates
As post-quantum signatures threaten to inflate TLS handshakes and certificate transparency logs, Merkle Tree Certificates offer a path to compact, auditable authentication. Cloudflare’s new certificate authority...
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Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks
Cloudflare introduces an adaptive security framework connecting risk discovery, agent governance, runtime protection, and AI-powered response in a continuous learning loop.
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Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an ACME-first approach, and Merkle Tree Certificates,...
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Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration
We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029....
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Mexican lawmakers join the fight for digital games ownership with a new consumer rights initiative
Another country has entered the fray as ongoing debates around digital video game ownership ignite across the world. Read more
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Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do...
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The Tower of Zeldaga is a free retro mash-up of Zelda and Druaga in which you rescue Ganondorf from some evil blonde queen
The recent screening of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has proven a thing of existential horror for many grey-haired Zeldenthusiasts. Is that...
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Silicon is starting to design silicon — how AI is being used in chipmaking, from EDA tools to OpenAI's Jalapeño and beyond
How close is AI to designing the very same chips it runs on? We explore how artificial intelligence is being used in modern chip design today.
Read moreMesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows
Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since...
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California Signs 3D Printer Gun-Blocking Bill Into Law
California’s 3D printer firearm-blocking bill is now law. But the version signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is quite different from the bill introduced earlier this year....
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Konami has a Silent Hill lore bible and no, you can't see it
The two great commandments of the Silent Hill lore bible are probably: has fog, has creepies.
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