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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed new rules for Google concerning its use of publisher content for generative AI. This article examines why these proposals, while a step in the right direction, may not fully address Google’s significant AI advantage. It argues that requiring Google to separate its search and AI crawlers is crucial for empowering publishers and ensuring fair competition in the digital market.

The fourth quarter of 2025 witnessed unprecedented DDoS activity, highlighted by the Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet’s “The Night Before Christmas” campaign, which launched hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks exceeding 200 million requests per second. This period also saw a record-breaking 31.4 Terabits per second attack. Overall, 2025 experienced a 121% surge in DDoS attacks, with Hong Kong and the United Kingdom seeing significant increases in targeting.

Cloudflare Radar has enhanced its DNS insights, now offering detailed visibility into aggregated traffic and usage trends observed by the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. This expansion includes new API endpoints for analyzing DNS query volume, distribution across various dimensions like protocol usage, query types, and DNSSEC status.

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model is now rolling out for GitHub Copilot users. This advanced model demonstrates strong capabilities in agentic coding, particularly for complex tasks requiring detailed planning and tool utilization. It is accessible across various GitHub Copilot plans and platforms, with administrators needing to enable access for business and enterprise accounts.

Cloudflare operates data centers in over 330 cities globally, necessitating meticulous planning for disruptive maintenance. Manual coordination became unmanageable as the network expanded, leading to the development of an automated maintenance scheduler built on Cloudflare Workers. This system ensures network reliability by programmatically enforcing safety constraints, preventing simultaneous outages and conflicts with customer-specific routing rules. The article details the system’s architecture, including graph processing for constraints, an efficient fetch pipeline, and real-time data analysis with Thanos and Parquet for historical insights.

GitHub Mobile now allows users to comment on any line within a pull request’s changed files, including unchanged code. This feature enhances code review by enabling broader feedback and ensuring comments from the web interface are visible on mobile devices.

Many organizations require message processing systems capable of prioritizing critical business operations while efficiently handling routine tasks. This article outlines how to construct a priority-based message processing system using Amazon MQ for queuing, Amazon DynamoDB for data persistence, and AWS App Runner for serverless compute, addressing challenges like configurable delays, priority routing, and real-time user feedback.

Cloudflare’s Configuration Rules now support WebP image optimization via Polish, allowing for precise control over image delivery based on specific routes, user agents, or A/B tests, without affecting the entire zone.

Cloudflare Logs now include additional fields for Gateway HTTP and Gateway Network datasets, providing more detailed information such as application IDs, names, category details, IP continent/country codes, proxy endpoints, virtual network IDs, and names.

The global real-time payments market is rapidly expanding, necessitating modernization of payment processing infrastructure. Traditional monolithic systems face latency, scalability, and cost challenges. This article explores an event-driven architecture leveraging AWS serverless services to enhance resilience, efficiency, and scalability for real-time payments, supporting high transaction volumes with low latency and improved sustainability.