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Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack

Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new...

Cloudflare Blog·1 min read·Today·Networking / Security
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MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
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Dropbox14h ago

Testing cookie behavior across hundreds of web surfaces with our in-house auditor

Our cookie auditor acts like a privacy-conscious user by visiting web pages and checking that they only load cookies consistent with that user’s preferences.

InfrastructureScale
1 min
Cloudflare18h ago

Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack

Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new...

NetworkingSecurity
1 min
Netflix3d ago

MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

By Emma Yanyang Kong, Aditya Deshpande, Asad Abbasi, Bowei Yan, David Fagnan, Ashish Rastogi, Dhaval Patel, Ray ZhangIntroductionThe Netflix experience is a...

StreamingScale
17 min
Cloudflare3d ago

BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents

Bot operators now have a home in the Cloudflare dashboard to manage submissions. This update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a...

NetworkingSecurity
1 min
The4d ago

The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI

Asana migrated off testing framework Enzyme in two weeks: without AI, this work would surely have been kicked down the road. Airbnb and Uber share similar...

CareerIndustry
1 min
Cloudflare4d ago

How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache

Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across...

NetworkingSecurity
1 min
The4d ago

Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)

This email is a response to the 50+ podcast pitches that arrived in my inbox just last month, and keep arriving in growing numbers, from PR agencies and...

CareerIndustry
1 min
AWS5d ago

Gallup scales real-time coaching for thousands with Amazon Bedrock

Gallup transformed 90 years of workplace science into Gallup AI, a generative AI assistant powered by Amazon Bedrock that delivers real-time, personalized...

CloudArchitecture
1 min
AWS5d ago

Closing the AI agent trust gap with graduated autonomy

Most teams give AI agents either full access or read-only, leaving value unused or risk unmanaged. This post describes graduated autonomy, an architectural...

CloudArchitecture
1 min
Kiro5d ago

Are AI coding agents actually getting better?

Six months of diagnostics data say yes, with caveats

AIDevTools
1 min
Pinterest5d ago

Scaling Conditional Learned Retrieval for Pinterest Home Feed

Devin Kreuzer | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Yichi Wang | Machine Learning Engineer I; Sujan Reddy Ale | Machine Learning Engineer I; Zelun Wang | Sr....

Machine LearningData
13 min
All5d ago

DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement...

Distributed SystemsArchitectureCloud
1 min
Airbnb6d ago

Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize

Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymizeThe data in Project Lighthouse is powered by privacy-preserving anonymization code. We’ve...

FrontendData Science
5 min
GitHub7d ago

Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here's how it works. The post Your alt text passes...

DevToolsPlatform
1 min
Cloudflare7d ago

The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash

We migrated the Cloudflare Blog to EmDash to prove our stack at massive scale. Here is how we stress-tested performance, safely routed production traffic, and...

NetworkingSecurity
1 min
Engineering7d ago

MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet

Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge...

SocialScale
1 min
Engineering7d ago

MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines

MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. We’re sharing...

SocialScale
1 min
AWS7d ago

How a global payment processor preserved AWS RAM shares and Lake Formation permissions during an AWS Organizations migration

When AWS accounts move between organizations, organization-bound AWS RAM resource shares break and control-plane access is lost. Learn how a global payment...

CloudArchitecture
1 min
Cloudflare10d ago

Say it once: introducing Bot Preference SynC

Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which...

NetworkingSecurity
1 min
Kiro10d ago

Continuous Prompt Evaluation: How We Use LLM Judges and Live Signals to Improve Kiro Agent Quality

Prompt behavior is difficult to validate exhaustively. A system prompt operates across combinations of models, tools, codebases, tasks, and users that no test...

AIDevTools
1 min