Cloudflare and VoidZero announced they are collaborating with Max Schwenk of Owner.com on tsrs, a Rust implementation of the TypeScript compiler, built in coordination with the TypeScript team and incubated inside the Oxc JavaScript compiler toolchain. The group says tsrs is not a fork, and early benchmarks show it running up to 8x faster and using about 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0 under matched worker configurations.
blog.cloudflare.com
· 2026-10-20
Estonia-based web security firm Blackwall announced a $100 million Series C round led by AVP, with existing investors Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures also participating. Executive chairman Roi Carthy said the raise quadruples the company's valuation to $2.2 billion since its 2025 round. Blackwall sells bot- and traffic-security tools to hosting and cloud providers, who rebrand and resell them to their own customers.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-20
A developer published 'whatsapp-mcp,' an open-source project that lets AI assistants like Claude search and read a user's WhatsApp messages. Users link their phone like WhatsApp Web, and the server stores message data in a SQLite database inside a Cloudflare Durable Object under their own account. The tool can read, search and recall contact names but cannot send messages, and requires a Cloudflare Workers Paid plan to run.
github.com
· 2026-10-18
Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company founded by Ryan Dahl behind the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime of the same name. Cloudflare will maintain the open-source Deno runtime for one more year before ending development, while Deno Deploy will shut down in six months with migration support offered to paying customers moving to Cloudflare Workers. The team's focus shifts to a new project called celld, built on the Cloudflare Workers programming model, and the JSR package registry will keep running under Cloudflare's infrastructure.
developers.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-17
Ukraine has carried out drone attacks over the past week targeting several of Yandex's major data centers, disrupting Russian consumer apps including shopping and taxi services in major cities. A Cloudflare report found that while the attacks caused real service outages, Russian bot-driven disinformation traffic was not eliminated but instead shifted to other hosting providers.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-16
Ryan Dahl announced the Deno team is moving to Cloudflare, with the Deno runtime being wound down over the next 12 months. JSR will keep running on Cloudflare's infrastructure, and the team will now work on merging Deno's celld component into Cloudflare's workerd runtime. The move follows Bun's team joining Anthropic ten months earlier.
vlt.io
· 2026-10-16
Cloudflare's analysis found that after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers cut Yandex Search and Yandex.Cloud traffic to 10-15% of normal levels, malicious bot activity largely migrated to other hosting providers such as Radist and Selectel rather than disappearing. Gambling-sector bot traffic rose slightly overall (167.7 million to 170.1 million requests, +1.4%), and Russian-origin social media bot activity fell only marginally, by 0.6% to 5.7% depending on the metric.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-15
Following reported Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex facilities between October 7-11, traffic on Yandex's two autonomous systems collapsed by up to 99%. Cloudflare's analysis found the drop on Yandex Search mostly reflected legitimate search crawlers going offline, while on Yandex.Cloud, malicious automated traffic such as vulnerability scanning largely relocated to other hosting providers rather than disappearing.
blog.cloudflare.com
· 2026-10-14
Following Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers, a Cloudflare chart showing a drop in Yandex-related bot traffic spread widely on social media, with many assuming it showed Russian disinformation bots going offline. Researcher antibot4navalny says the data actually reflects a decline in Yandex's own web crawler activity, not social media bot farms, and that broader Russian bot traffic was largely unaffected. A separate chart claiming to show a drop in pro-AfD online activity, shared by EU lawmaker Tomáš Zdechovský, has been flagged by computer scientist Raphael Wimmer as possibly AI-generated.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-12
Varonis Threat Labs discovered AvisLoader, a new Windows malware loader found on an exposed staging server alongside a ClickFix phishing lure and its control panel. The malware is delivered via a fake DocuSign verification page hosted on Cloudflare Workers that tricks victims into pasting and running a malicious command, which then fetches code from a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel address.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-12
Cloudflare data shows bot traffic from Yandex's network has collapsed to just 0.4% of its two-week peak following a third Ukrainian drone strike on the company's data centers. Earlier strikes hit a Sasovo facility housing two supercomputers and a larger campus in Kaluga, while Yandex Cloud's status page lists at least 84 services currently offline. NetBlocks reports Yandex Cloud traffic down to 30% and Yandex LLC traffic down to 63%.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-11
Cloudflare announced on Friday that it is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the Deno JavaScript runtime co-founded by Bert Belder and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. Cloudflare principal engineer Kenton Varda said the deal will help improve the programming model behind Cloudflare Workers, its platform for building and running software on its network. Financial terms were not disclosed; Deno had previously raised $26 million, including a Series A led by Sequoia.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-10
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