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OpenAI is temporarily relaxing GPT-5.6 Sol usage after demand for the company's most powerful model surged over the past 48 hours. [...]
Everyone’s least favorite alert: nothing changed, everything is on fire. No new deploys, no database failovers, no spike in client query load or inbound requests. Yet suddenly, the database CPU has jumped from 20% utilization to 100% and queries are starting to fail. This is precisely what a customer of ours faced last Thursday. Turns out the root cause is the fickle PostgreSQL query planner, and the solution is Database Traffic Control®. Let’s dig in. An elusive issue When our customer notif
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Agents connected to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with addMcpServer can now handle elicitation requests. Elicitation lets an MCP server request user input while it handles a tool call. Form mode collects structured, non-sensitive data. URL mode asks for consent before opening an out-of-band flow, such as third-party authorization or payment. sequenceDiagram participant User participant Agent as Agent (MCP client) participant Server as MCP server participant Browser Se
Precursor is rolling out to all customers starting today. Precursor is client-side JavaScript that enables session-based bot detection. You can read the announcement blog for background on why we built Precursor and how session-level behavioral detection works. With Precursor enabled, Cloudflare can: Continuously evaluate behavioral signals across a session Re-validate challenge clearance as behavior changes Update bot scores with session context Provide client-side visibility where none previou
Markdown for Agents now preserves security- and cache-relevant response headers from your origin when converting HTML to Markdown: Markdown for Agents preserves security headers such as Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS), Content-Security-Policy (CSP), X-Frame-Options, Set-Cookie, and CORS headers (for example, Access-Control-Allow-Origin) on the converted response. Caching headers (Cache-Control, Expires, Age) continue to pass through. Your origin's Content Signals policy is now authoritative. If
R2 Data Catalog now accepts read-only API tokens, so query engines and clients that only read data no longer need a read-write token. Previously, every catalog operation required an Admin Read & Write token, which meant read-only clients were granted more access than they needed. You can now authenticate your Iceberg engine based on your workload: Read-only operations (such as listing namespaces, loading tables, and querying data) work with an Admin Read only token (R2 Data Catalog read and R2 s
R2 Data Catalog, a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built into R2, now automatically optimizes manifest files as part of compaction. Manifest files track the data files that make up an Iceberg table. As a table accumulates many small or fragmented manifests, query engines must read more metadata during query planning, which slows down queries even before any data is scanned. When compaction runs, R2 Data Catalog now rewrites and clusters manifest files by partition as a best-effort pre-step. This
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