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Cloudflare says 1.1.1.1 outage not caused by attack or BGP hijack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-26 16:49:29

To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal misconfiguration. The outage occurred on July 14 and impacted most users of the service all over the world, rendering internet services unavailable in many cases. “The root cause was an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack,” Cloudflare says in the announcement. T

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Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 08:33:55

Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK. Users attempting to access certain pirate sites are greeted with 'Error 451 - Unavailable for Legal Reasons'. In theory, ISP blocking should prevent UK users from even seeing this notice, but a combination of Cloudflare's blocking mechanism and choices made by some VPN users results in a piracy dead end. Internet service providers BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, EE, a

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It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-30 03:44:54

Update 7:57 p.m. ET: The issue has been solved, and Cloudflare’s status page says that all systems are operational. If you’ve noticed some internet slowdowns or trouble reaching websites tonight, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has confirmed an issue affecting its popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, which many people rely on for fast and private internet browsing. What’s going on? The company first acknowledged the problem at 22:13 UTC, and began rolling out a fix just minutes later. According

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It’s not just you: a Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-30 08:44:54

If you’ve noticed some internet slowdowns or trouble reaching websites tonight, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has confirmed an issue affecting its popular 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, which many people rely on for fast and private internet browsing. What’s going on? The company first acknowledged the problem at 22:13 UTC, and began rolling out a fix just minutes later. According to Cloudflare, the issue only affects users relying on 1.1.1.1. Their Gateway and Authoritative DNS services are stil

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Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Erisa A 2025-07-28 13:08:34

There are lots of ways to host a web service. You might want to rent a VPS, Dedicated Server, or embrace full serverless and write your application for a service like Cloudflare Workers You might want to use Docker, k8s, LXD, or any other manner of deploying your services. You might have a complex setup to proxy and serve traffic through your IP. But sometimes you might not have it all figured out. You might want to run your service in your home on that one old laptop you have lying around,

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The New Internet Sheriff Takes a Shot at Google

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-05 17:43:02

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince didn’t make his biggest AI announcement in a press release or earnings call. He made it one X reply at a time. Earlier this month, Cloudflare launched what it called “Content Independence Day,” a policy change that blocks AI companies from scraping the websites it protects unless they compensate content creators. The move challenges the decades-old web economy where companies like Google could freely index content in exchange for traffic, and replaces it with a new

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Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-06 04:00:00

After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the plan. In particular, website owners and SEO experts wanted to know how Cloudflare planned to block Google's bot from scraping sites to fuel AI overviews without risking blocking the same bot from crawling for valuable search engine placements. Last week, a travel blogger raised questions about the bl

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Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-15 20:01:56

The foundational deal of the modern web, a handshake agreement that powered two decades of search and content, is officially dead. Cloudflare just put a price on scraping the internet, and it’s coming for artificial intelligence’s free lunch. Almost 30 years ago, two Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built Google on a simple bargain: content creators would let them copy the entire web in exchange for traffic. For years, that traffic powered ad revenue, subscriptions, and the g

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Pay Up, AI Bot: That's the Message From a Key Company in How the Internet Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-16 11:08:00

AI companies might find it harder to access the entire web to train their large language models after the internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare said this week it would block AI data crawlers by default. It's the latest front to open in an ongoing fight between the creators of content and the AI developers who use that content to train generative AI models. In court, authors and content creators are suing major AI companies for compensation, saying copyrighted content was used without perm

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‘Death Wish’ Planet Actively Triggers Destructive Flares From Its Host Star

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-18 12:00:29

A young, energetic star has had just about enough of its clingy planet. The pair are mired in a toxic relationship, with the planet sending waves of energy toward the star—and the host star is responding with violent explosions that are destroying its planet over time. Using the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cheops mission, a team of astronomers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy gathered evidence for the first known exoplanet with an apparent death wish. In a paper published We

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Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

news.ycombinator.com Natallie Rocha 2025-08-18 20:28:56

Cloudflare, a tech company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, said on Tuesday that it had rolled out a new permission-based setting that allows customers to automatically block artificial intelligence companies from collecting their digital data, a move that has implications for publishers and the race to build A.I. With Cloudflare’s new setting, websites can block — by default — online bots that scrape their data, requiring the website owner to grant access for a bot

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Cloudflare just changed the internet, and it's bad news for the AI giants

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-19 00:23:00

iStock / Getty Images Plus The major internet Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloudflare, has declared war on AI companies. Starting July 1, Cloudflare now blocks by default AI web crawlers accessing content from your websites without permission or compensation. The change addresses a real problem. My own small site, where I track all my stories, Practical Technology, has been slowed dramatically at times by AI crawlers. It's not just me. Numerous website owners have reported that AI crawlers,

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Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers - and the stakes couldn't be higher

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-20 00:11:37

D-Keine/Getty The major Internet Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloudflare, has declared war on AI companies. Starting July 1, Cloudflare now blocks by default AI web crawlers accessing content from your websites without permission or compensation. The change addresses a real problem. My own small site, where I track all my stories, Practical Technology, has been slowed dramatically at times by AI crawlers. It's not just me. Numerous website owners have reported that AI crawlers, such as Open

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Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-20 20:15:29

Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker 45 minutes ago Share Save Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Millions of websites - including Sky News, The Associated Press and Buzzfeed - will now be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) bots from accessing their content without permission. The new system is being rolled out by internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare, which hosts around a fifth of the internet. Eventually, sites will be able to

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Cloudflare experiment will block AI bot scrapers unless they pay a fee

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 08:15:23

Cloudflare has rolled out a couple of new measures meant to keep AI bot crawlers at bay. To start with, every new domain customer that signs up with the company to manage their website traffic will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers or to block them altogether. The company released a free tool in 2024 to block AI bots, but with this change, users can block them by default without having to tinker with their settings. Several big publishers, including Condé Nast, TIME and The Associat

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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-08-21 16:07:10

In this article NET Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly impact AI developers' ability to train their models. Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, effectively giving them

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Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-08-21 16:00:57

However, such systems don’t provide the same opportunities for monetization and credit as search engines historically have. AI models draw from a great deal of data on the web to generate their outputs, but these data sources are often not credited, limiting the creators’ ability to make money from their work. Search engines that feature AI-generated answers may include links to original sources, but they may also reduce people’s interest in clicking through to other sites and could even usher i

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Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 16:00:44

Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its "pay-per-crawl" feature is currently in a private beta. A small number of publishers—including AdWeek, The Associated Press, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Fortune, Gannett, and Ars Technica owner Condé Nast—will participate in the experiment. Each publisher will be able to set their own prices that bots must pay before sc

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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-08-21 16:00:00

Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites. Web crawlers have trawled the internet for information for decades. Without them, people would lose vitally i

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Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-21 16:00:00

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement a “Pay Per Crawl” fee. The Pay Per Crawl program will let publishers set a price for AI scrapers to access their content. AI companie

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Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-21 16:00:00

Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — ideally giving publishers greater control over their content. For the last year, Cloudflare has launched tools for publishers to address the rampant rise of AI crawlers, including a one-click solution to block all AI bots, as well as a dashboard to view how AI crawlers are visiting their site. In a 20

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Cloudflare open-sources Orange Meets with End-to-End encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-23 19:11:21

Cloudflare has implemented end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its video calling app Orange Meets and open-sourced the solution for transparency. The application has been available since last year when the internet giant launched it as a demo for Cloudflare Calls (now Realtime). With the introduction of E2EE and the resolution of various trust and verification issues, users interested in strong cryptographic assurances can explore Orange Meets as a foundation for secure video calling in research o

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Cloudflare blocks largest DDoS attack - here's how to protect yourself

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-24 08:23:39

oxygen/Getty Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack in internet history. This assault peaked at a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). That's a data deluge, equivalent to streaming nearly 10,000 high-definition movies in under a minute. The attack targeted an unnamed hosting provider using Cloudflare's Magic Transit DDoS pro

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How to turn on Android's Private DNS mode - and why turning it off is a big mistake

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-24 20:10:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Nearly everything you do on your desktop, laptop, phone, and tablet begins with a Domain Name System (DNS) query. Essentially, DNS turns domain names (such as ZDNET.com) into an IP address so web browsers and apps know where to get the information you want. Also: The best Android phones to buy in 2025 Without DNS, you'd have to type 34.149.132.124 every time you wanted to go to ZDNET.com or 74.125.21.102 to go to Google.com. Even by simply running a

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Russia’s throttling of Cloudflare makes sites inaccessible

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-25 04:47:15

Starting June 9, 2025, Russian internet service providers (ISPs) began throttling access to websites and services protected by Cloudflare, making sites inaccessible from the country. The throttling is so aggressive, reportedly only allowing users to download the first 16 KB of any web asset, that it effectively breaks most Cloudflare-backed sites for Russian netizens. Cloudflare maintains that it has not received formal communication about this from the Russian state but considers this action

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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 07:34:21

9 min read This post is also available in Français ไทย and Deutsch In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). This comes shortly after the publication of our DDoS threat report for 2025 Q1 on April 27, 2025, where we highlighted attacks reaching 6.5 Tbps and 4.8 billion packets per second (pps). The 7.3 Tbps attack is 12% larger than our previous record and 1 Tbps greater than a recent attack reported by cyber securit

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How to turn on Android's Private DNS mode - and why it's an absolute must for security

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-03 08:08:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Nearly everything you do on your desktop, laptop, phone, and tablet begins with a Domain Name System (DNS) query. Essentially, DNS turns domain names (such as ZDNET.com) into an IP address so web browsers and apps know where to get the information you want. Also: How to enable earthquake alerts on your Android phone (including these Samsung models) Without DNS, you'd have to type 34.149.132.124 every time you wanted to go to ZDNET.com or 74.125.21.10

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Cloudflare CEO warns AI crawlers and summaries are eroding the internet's business model

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-04 01:15:00

In context: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently reiterated his warning that generative AI crawlers and summaries threaten the foundations of the internet's business model. To protect publishers from a flood of artificial AI traffic that offers virtually no authentic site visits in return, the company is devising methods to combat AI scrapers. Speaking at an Axios event in Cannes last week, Prince explained that search engines and chatbots using generative AI to summarize web content have sig

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Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-05 12:54:10

Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in May 2025 that peaked at 7.3 Tbps, targeting a hosting provider. DDoS attacks flood targets with massive amounts of traffic with the sole aim to overwhelm servers and create service slowdowns, disruptions, or outages. This new attack, which is 12% larger than the previous record, delivered a massive data volume of 37.4 TB in just 45 seconds. This is the equivalent of about 7,500 hours of HD streaming o

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This ‘Large and Unstable’ Sunspot Just Slammed Earth With Its Strongest Flare Yet

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-10 00:35:32

An Earth-facing sunspot region has been raging with massive eruptions of hot gas that have caused disruptions to our communications systems—and there’s still more to come. On Tuesday at 5:49 p.m. ET, sunspot region 4114 released an X.12 class solar flare that caused a radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. This was the strongest flare released by this specific sunspot thus far.

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