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OpenAI and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen collaboration on AI and advanced computing in support of scientific discovery. The agreement builds on ongoing work with national laboratories and helps establish a framework for applying AI to high-impact research across the DOE ecosystem.
The Overview tab is now the default view in AI Crawl Control. The previous default view with controls for individual AI crawlers is available in the Crawlers tab. What's new Executive summary — Monitor total requests, volume change, most common status code, most popular path, and high-volume activity Operator grouping — Track crawlers by their operating companies (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, ByteDance, Anthropic, Meta) Customizable filters — Filter your snapshot by date range, crawler, operator,
The cached/uncached classification logic used in Zone Overview analytics has been updated to improve accuracy. Previously, requests were classified as "cached" based on an overly broad condition that included blocked 403 responses, Snippets requests, and other non-cache request types. This caused inflated cache hit ratios — in some cases showing near-100% cached — and affected approximately 15% of requests classified as cached in rollups. The condition has been removed from the Zone Overview pag
R2 Data Catalog now supports automatic snapshot expiration for Apache Iceberg tables. In Apache Iceberg, a snapshot is metadata that represents the state of a table at a given point in time. Every mutation creates a new snapshot which enable powerful features like time travel queries and rollback capabilities but will accumulate over time. Without regular cleanup, these accumulated snapshots can lead to: Metadata overhead Slower table operations Increased storage costs. Snapshot expiration in R2
This week's release focuses on improvements to existing detections to enhance coverage. Key Findings Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage. RulesetRule IDLegacy Rule IDDescriptionPrevious ActionNew ActionComments Cloudflare Managed Ruleset6429f7386b1546cf9dfce631be5ec20c N/AAtlassian Confluence - Code Injection - CVE:CVE-2021-26084 - BetaLogBlockThis rule is merged into the orig
Workers for Platforms lets you build multi-tenant platforms on Cloudflare Workers, allowing your end users to deploy and run their own code on your platform. It's designed for anyone building an AI vibe coding platform, e-commerce platform, website builder, or any product that needs to securely execute user-generated code at scale. Previously, setting up Workers for Platforms required using the API. Now, the Workers for Platforms UI supports namespace creation, dispatch worker templates, and tag
We've published build image policies for Workers Builds and Cloudflare Pages, which establish: Minor version updates: We typically update preinstalled software to the latest available minor version without notice. For tools that don't follow semantic versioning (e.g., Bun or Hugo), we provide 3 months’ notice. Major version updates: Before preinstalled software reaches end-of-life, we update to the next stable LTS version with 3 months’ notice. Build image version deprecation (Pages only): We pr
Wrangler now includes a new wrangler auth token command that retrieves your current authentication token or credentials for use with other tools and scripts. wrangler auth token The command returns whichever authentication method is currently configured, in priority order: API token from CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN, or OAuth token from wrangler login (automatically refreshed if expired). Use the --json flag to get structured output including the token type: wrangler auth token --json The JS
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