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Cloudflare

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242 articles decelerating

Cloudflare has appeared in 242 articles since 2016-03. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 12 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Google, Matthew Prince, DDoS, DNS.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-04-03
Matt Mullenweg 14 related

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization

So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.

2026-01-30
BleepingComputer 1 related

Cloudflare says it mitigated a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet in December 2025, making it the largest attack ever disclosed publicly

The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps and 200 million requests per second, setting a new record.

2025-12-06
Bloomberg 7 related

Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month

from content delivery and DDoS protection to DNS services. When Cloudflare has an outage, it doesn't just affect one company; it impacts a Dane Knecht / @dok2001 : You can read the details of what wen...

2025-12-05
Wired 4 related

CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company's efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.

2025-11-19
Cloudflare 33 related

Cloudflare says the November 18 outage was caused by a change to one of its “database systems' permissions”, not by “malicious activity of any kind”

On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic.

2025-11-18
@dok2001 3 related

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says “we failed our customers and the broader Internet” when a Cloudflare issue “impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us”

I won't mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and ...

The Independent 73 related

Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

2025-09-03
BleepingComputer 17 related

Cloudflare says attackers accessed a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management and customer support, the latest Salesloft Drift breach

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.

2025-08-04
Cloudflare 5 related

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks

We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine.  Although Perplexity initially crawls …

2025-07-08
404 Media 4 related

A look at some options for fighting AI companies' scraping, including open-source Anubis' cryptographic JavaScript math challenges and Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth

If you are a website owner you should definitely check it out! [embedded post] Brewster Kahle / @brewster.kahle.org : Interview of the new librarian of the British Library :  —  www.bloomberg.com/feat...

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Cloudflare has appeared in 229 Techmeme articles since April 2015. The biggest stories include Cloudflare CEO on why the company terminated DDoS protection service for 8chan: the site... and Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”,.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Matthew Prince, DDoS, DNS, and TechCrunch. Coverage has shifted toward regulation, developer themes and away from enterprise, research.

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2024Q2enterprise +19pts; developer -14pts; consumer +19pts
2024Q3enterprise +67pts; developer +75pts; consumer +42pts
2024Q4enterprise -71pts; developer -61pts; consumer -75pts

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