Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials
Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
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.
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers
https://arstechnica.com/... Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand. See also Mediagazer
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers
It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions …
The UK CMA designates Google with “strategic market status” in search and ads, but excludes Gemini; Google has warned such oversight could slow product launches
Update Natasha Lomas Euractiv / Euractiv : Google's search and ads business to face tougher rules in the UK Holly Williams / The Standard : Google may be forced to loosen control of search engine in U...
Cloudflare announces plans to launch NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed to support payments for the “agentic web”
(i) In general.—A public company that is not predominantly engaged in 1 or more financial activities, and its Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : Crypto is the financial system for AI. Serpin Taxt ...
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more
Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better …
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
It's a total reshaping of how people make money on the internet. Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com : “Deeply concerned that the incentives for content creatio...
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 18:1; for OpenAI, it's 1,500:1
Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly compensated for their content …
A profile of Brian Krebs, who in the past 20 years has probed and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged hackers of Snowflake clients
In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @nixonnixoff@infosec.exchange . X: @ea...