Morning traffic surge sends major sites into a tailspin

A sudden Cloudflare meltdown on Tuesday morning left large chunks of the internet wheezing as sites from social media to retail and transport threw up baffling error messages.

IoT junk kit gangs up for the biggest cloud-crunching flood yet.

Microsoft engineers said the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps distributed denial-of-service barrage against Azure and sprayed more than 3.6 billion packets per second at one unlucky Australian endpoint.

A 25 per cent performance bump

Interweb bouncer Cloudflare has spent the past year ripping out the guts of its global traffic system and replacing them with something Rusty. 

Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives

Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.

More than 200 pirate domains blocked

A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally seen as a neutral web infrastructure provider, is now showing “Error 451 – Unavailable for Legal Reasons” to users trying to access dozens of domains linked to streaming and download piracy.

From absurd copyright overkill to outright national security risk

Italy’s Piracy Shield is already a digital farce — now it’s teetering on the edge of becoming a full-blown national disaster. 

Halloween 2024 was the worst ever

Cloudflare’s autonomous DDoS defence systems thwarted approximately 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a significant 53 per cent increase from 2023.

Cloudflare sees 17.2 per cent growth

Cloudflare’s 2024 Internet Traffic Report reveals a notable 17.2 per cent global surge in internet traffic, underscoring the continued expansion of the digital world.

Patent war over 

Cloudflare has beaten Sable networks in a court battle over patents owned by the defunct “flow-based router” firm, Caspian Networks. 

Peaked under 2 Tbps

Cloudflare claims to have blocked a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at just under 2 Tbps.