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Apple Developer News

Introducing the 2025 Apple Design Award winners and finalists

An artistic puzzler with a wildlife twist. A translation app powered by machine learning and stickers. And a card game that’s been on quite a run. Say hello to the wildly inventive crop of 2025 Apple Design Award honorees. View this year's winners and finalists >

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Apple Developer News

Hello Developer: June 2025

WWDC25 is just days away! Here’s everything you need to get ready — and a big announcement to start things off. Say hello to the wildly inventive crop of 2025 Apple Design Award winners and finalists. Read the full article

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Vercel Blog

New firewall challenge metrics now available

You can now monitor and query outcomes using two new metrics:Vercel Firewall challenge These metrics help evaluate rule effectiveness and reduce friction when users are unnecessarily challenged (high success rates). Now available in the Firewall and in the Observability Plus' with no additional setup required.dashboardquery builder Learn more about and .custom rulesmanaged rulesets Read more – Visitor solved the challenge and was granted access (indicates a real user)challenge-solved – V

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Cloudflare Changelog

AI Gateway - AI Gateway adds OpenAI compatible endpoint

Users can now use an OpenAI Compatible endpoint in AI Gateway to easily switch between providers, while keeping the exact same request and response formats. We're launching now with the chat completions endpoint, with the embeddings endpoint coming up next. To get started, use the OpenAI compatible chat completions endpoint URL with your own account id and gateway id and switch between providers by changing the model and apiKey parameters. import OpenAI from "openai"; const client = new OpenA

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Cloudflare Changelog

DNS - Improved onboarding for Shopify merchants

Shopify merchants can now onboard to O2O automatically, without needing to contact support or community members. What's new: Automatic enablement – O2O is available for all mutual Cloudflare and Shopify customers. Branded record display – Merchants see a Shopify logo in DNS records, complete with helpful tooltips. Checkout protection – Workers and Snippets are blocked from running on the checkout path to reduce risk and improve security. For more information, refer to the provider guide.

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