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Microsoft CEO says PHP flaw crisis unlike anything in years

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Thursday that the global scramble over flaws in the PHP programming language had no recent parallel. "I've not seen anything like this in a long, long time," he said at a company event in Cologne,…

Amazon says PHP2Shell attacks began days before patches

Attackers have made millions of attempts to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, two critical flaws in the PHP programming language. Amazon says the first attempt it saw came four days before patches were released. Even so, European cyber officials say hackers…

Cloudflare sees millions of PHP2Shell exploit attempts

Cloudflare tracked a fast rise in attacks after critical flaws in the PHP programming language became public. CEO Matthew Prince said attempts went from thousands to millions within hours. Government websites in Europe and Asia went offline as precautions while…

Cloudflare leads cyber stock rally as PHP flaws hit sites

Cybersecurity and software stocks rallied on Wednesday, October 21, after two critical flaws in the PHP programming language led governments, hospitals and businesses across Europe to take their websites offline. Cloudflare climbed more than 6%. Datadog, Okta, Zscaler and CrowdStrike…

Amazon, Cloudflare open-source decision model rivals to TypeSafe’s Jev

Barely two weeks after TypeSafe AI introduced Jev, OpenAI, Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare have each put out their own decision models. These systems don't write text. They pick an answer from a fixed list and attach a probability to…

Cloudflare says most internet traffic is now automated

Cloudflare used its 16th Birthday Week to unveil a suite of products designed for what it calls the Internet's "second audience" — AI agents — revealing that daily requests from agents on its network have grown by more than 1,700%…

Cloudflare launches tool to block AI training without losing search visibility

Cloudflare on Tuesday rolled out new tools that let website owners block AI companies from training on their content without sacrificing visibility in search engines — resolving a tension that has plagued publishers since generative AI reshaped the economics of…

Cloudflare begins blocking AI bots by default on millions of websites

Cloudflare began enforcing new default rules on Tuesday that automatically block AI training and agent bots on millions of websites, marking one of the largest shifts yet in how publishers manage their relationship with the AI industry.

Cloudflare says AI agents now generate 60% of its traffic

Traffic generated by artificial intelligence agents on Cloudflare's network has surged more than 1,700% over the past year, now accounting for roughly 60% of total traffic, the company's Asia-Pacific leadership disclosed Tuesday at a media briefing in Seoul.

Google tests global AI opt-out for publishers after UK order and Cloudflare ultimatum

Google Alphabet Inc. is confronting a growing revolt from publishers, regulators, and infrastructure providers over its practice of using a single web crawler to serve both traditional search and its AI products — a strategy critics say gives the company…

Bot traffic overtakes humans on Cloudflare’s network

Non-human internet traffic has officially surpassed human activity on Cloudflare's network, the company revealed during its second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, with executives predicting that machine-generated packets could exceed human traffic by a factor of 1,000 within five years.

Cloudflare releases Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents instead of humans

Cloudflare on Wednesday released Kitesurf, a web browser built from scratch for AI agents rather than humans, running entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers with no Chromium underneath. The browser is available free while in beta through the company's…

Cloudflare open-sources its AI agent workspace for any organization to deploy

Cloudflare on Wednesday released Cloudflare OS, an open-source AI workspace designed to give every enterprise employee access to AI agents, internal company tools, and custom micro-applications through a browser — without requiring developer expertise.

WordPress patches critical flaw letting anyone hijack sites

WordPress released emergency security updates on Friday, closing a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability that allows an anonymous attacker to take full control of any default WordPress installation with a single HTTP request.

Cloudflare outage knocks X, Reddit, Zoom offline worldwide

A widespread internet disruption rippled across some of the world's most-used platforms on Monday, June 22, after Cloudflare, the infrastructure provider whose network carries roughly 20 percent of global web traffic, reported increased error rates and latency across multiple services.