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Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

For years, we’ve written that CAPTCHAs drive us crazy. Humans give up on CAPTCHA puzzles approximately 15% of the time and, maddeningly, CAPTCHAs are significantly easier for bots to solve than they are for humans. We’ve spent the past three and a half years working to build a better experience for humans that’s just as effective at stopping bots. As of this month, we’ve finished replacing every CAPTCHA issued by Cloudflare with Turnstile, our new CAPTCHA replacement (pictured below). Cloudflare will never issue another visual puzzle to anyone, for any reason.

Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to make it easy for anyone to do the same, even if they don’t use other Cloudflare services. We’ve decoupled Turnstile from our platform so that any website operator on any platform can use it just by adding a few lines of code. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is now generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.

Easy on humans, hard on bots, private for everyone

There’s a lot that goes into Turnstile’s simple checkbox to ensure that it’s easy for everyone, preserves user privacy, and does its job stopping bots. Continue reading

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Easily manage AI crawlers with our new bot categories

Today, we’re excited to announce that any Cloudflare user, on any plan, can choose specific categories of bots that they want to allow or block, including AI crawlers.

As the popularity of generative AI has grown, content creators and policymakers around the world have started to ask questions about what data AI companies are using to train their models without permission. As with all new innovative technologies, laws will likely need to evolve to address different parties' interests and what’s best for society at large. While we don’t know how it will shake out, we believe that website operators should have an easy way to block unwanted AI crawlers and to also let AI bots know when they are permitted to crawl their websites.

The good news is that Cloudflare already automatically stops scraper bots today. But we want to make it even easier for customers to be sure they are protected, see how frequently AI scrapers might be visiting their sites, and respond to them in more targeted ways. We also recognize that not all AI crawlers are the same and that some AI companies are looking for clear instructions for when they should not crawl a public website.

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Nvidia’s French offices raided for anticompetitive practices: Report

France’s competition watchdog has raided the local offices of chipmaker Nvidia while investigating anticompetitive practices in the graphics cards sector with a focus on cloud computing.While the competition watchdog did not confirm the identity of the entity being investigated or the practice in question, a report from The Wall Street Journal cited sources saying that the raids targeted Nvidia.The watchdog, however, confirmed that the operation was a result of it trying to investigate the graphics cards sector as part of an expanded study to understand anticompetitive practices in the cloud computing sector. The study, according to the watchdog, was started in January 2022.To read this article in full, please click here

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Nvidia’s French offices raided for anti-competitive practices: Report

France’s competition watchdog has raided the local offices of chipmaker Nvidia while investigating anti-competitive practices in the graphics cards sector with a focus on cloud computing.While the competition watchdog did not confirm the identity of the entity being investigated or the practice in question, a report from The Wall Street Journal cited sources saying that the raids conducted targeted Nvidia.The watchdog, however, confirmed that the operation was a result of it trying to investigate the graphics cards sector as part of an expanded study to understand anti-competitive practices in the cloud computing sector. The study, according to the watchdog, was started in January 2022.To read this article in full, please click here

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Ansible Contributor Summit, Durham 2023

Ansible Contributor Summit, Durham 2023

The Ansible Contributor Summit is a full day working session for community contributors to interact with one another and meet with the Ansible development teams behind the projects like AWX, Galaxy NG, Molecule, Ansible Lint and Event-Driven Ansible. We will discuss important issues affecting the Ansible Community and help shape the future of collaboration.

We are happy to have the opportunity to do a second Contributor Summit this year, and this time it will be part of DjangoCon US 2023 in Durham, NC. Our previous experience co-locating the Contributor Summit with another related event was in February in Ghent, Belgium as part of CfgMgmtCamp 2023. It was so successful, we wanted to do it again with another great match.

Hello, Durham!

We will be meeting in the "Bull City", the home of Ansible itself and the inspiration for our beloved mascot, Ansibull. In case you didn't know, the Ansible office overlooks the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and this mixed with Ansible word play is why you might see mentions of bulls and Ansibulls in Ansible land.

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China APT Cracks Cisco Firmware in Attacks Against the US and Japan

Sophisticated hackers are rewriting router firmware in real time and hiding their footprints, leaving defenders with hardly a fighting chance.

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IDC: SD-WAN adoption gets a boost from cloud connectivity requirements, SASE appeal

SD-WAN deployments continue to grow at an impressive clip, and the leading adoption drivers include cloud connectivity requirements, interest in SASE packages, the promise of simpler WAN management, and cost savings potential, according to IDC.The research firm evaluated 12 SD-WAN vendors for its newly published IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure 2023 Vendor Assessment, which found the SD-WAN infrastructure market grew 25% in 2022. Looking ahead, IDC is forecasting a compound annual growth rate of 10% and expects the market to reach $7.5 billion by 2027. To read this article in full, please click here

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BrandPost: Securing AWS cloud environments

The benefits of moving workloads into a cloud-based environment cannot be overstated. AWS, for instance, is designed for flexibility, allowing users to select the operating system, programming language, web application platform, database, and other services to suit their own specific needs. This adaptability not only simplifies the migration process for existing applications but also provides a strong foundation for building new solutions.However, there is a flip side. With this flexibility comes the potential for an AWS customer to unknowingly introduce risks into their cloud environment. One of the most significant risks is the formation of attack paths, which can be used by malicious actors to infiltrate and compromise cloud resources. These exposed paths emerge through a combination of factors that are often easy to overlook in a complex and fast-moving cloud environment. They are best summarized in three distinct categories:To read this article in full, please click here

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Internet Use by Farms Edges Forward, But Precision Agriculture is Lagging

The United States Department of Agriculture Farm Survey examines use of the Internet and potential advanced technologies to enable precision agriculture.

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AI Will Soon Transform Network Management and Monitoring

AI will be integrated into network operations sooner rather than later. Here’s how that transformation process will likely happen.

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The Legacy Systems Lurch

From infrastructure to app delivery, from data to applications, it’s past time to modernize your practices, processes, and providers to ensure you’re able to take advantage of AI and whatever comes next.

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5 Takeaways from the Fortinet Security Summit

The recent Fortinet security summit highlighted emerging trends such as the growing role of AI in cyber security, the melding of networking and security, and more. .

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Day Two Cloud 213: Get Application Visibility And Governance For Your K8s Clusters With Lens AppIQ (Sponsored)

Welcome to Day Two Cloud! Today we talk with sponsor Mirantis about Lens AppIQ. If you've started using Kuberentes and you've got multiple clusters supporting many applications, Lens AppIQ help you get visibility into what's going on. Lens AppIQ is a SaaS service that provides app-centric visibility, policy management, and governance. It's targeted at developers and DevOps teams.

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Day Two Cloud 213: Get Application Visibility And Governance For Your K8s Clusters With Lens AppIQ (Sponsored)

Welcome to Day Two Cloud! Today we talk with sponsor Mirantis about Lens AppIQ. If you've started using Kuberentes and you've got multiple clusters supporting many applications, Lens AppIQ help you get visibility into what's going on. Lens AppIQ is a SaaS service that provides app-centric visibility, policy management, and governance. It's targeted at developers and DevOps teams.

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VPC: The Secure Bridge Between Application and Infrastructure Teams

The Cloud operating model is all about simplicity—bringing the agility of public clouds together with the security and control that enterprises have traditionally placed importance on. The fundamental expectation is to deploy applications with “one-click”—or one-API call.

In embracing this model, application developers expect to move at warp speed but are often hampered by necessary guardrails imposed by the infrastructure and security teams. For the Modern Enterprise so beholden to rapid software development as part of their innovation lifecycle, this can be frustrating.

The challenge traditionally lies in the complexity of setting up and provisioning infrastructure and security. These problems are compounded in hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, and where multiple teams are involved. Network teams are responsible for configuring and making the network operational. Security teams then take over the definition and implementation of firewall and advanced security policies. This can be multi-layered. Likewise, the application load balancing teams are responsible for ensuring the application performance.

While well intentioned, these teams produce several tickets that can take days to weeks to resolve. As a result, a simple application can take weeks, if not months, months to be deployed.

Application owners and the lines of business owners, want true agility, with Continue reading

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Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems

There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today. …

The post Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems first appeared on The Next Platform.

Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Geek is back! Everything you missed at the Intel Innovation Conference

SPONSORED POST: Intel’s flagship technology event – Intel Innovation – took place at the San Jose Convention Center in California earlier this month, with select content available on demand from September 27th for those who were unable to attend in-person. …

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The Geek is back! Everything you missed at the Intel Innovation Conference was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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Hyperdrive : donner aux bases de données l'impression d'être mondiales

Hyperdrive vous permet d'accéder très rapidement à vos bases de données existantes à partir de Cloudflare Workers, quel que soit leur lieu d'exécution. Il vous suffit de connecter Hyperdrive à votre base de données, de modifier une ligne de code pour vous connecter via Hyperdrive, et voilà : les connexions et les requêtes sont accélérées (et spoiler : vous pouvez l'utiliser dès aujourd'hui).

En un mot, Hyperdrive s'appuie sur notre réseau mondial pour accélérer les requêtes vers vos bases de données existantes, qu'elles se situent chez un fournisseur de cloud traditionnel ou chez votre fournisseur de base de données serverless préféré. La solution réduit considérablement la latence induite par l'établissement répété de nouvelles connexions avec la base de données. En outre, elle met en cache les requêtes de lecture les plus populaires adressées à votre base de données, une opération qui évite souvent d'avoir à s'adresser à nouveau à votre base de données.

Sans Hyperdrive, l'accès à votre base de données principale (celle qui contient les profils de vos utilisateurs, votre stock de produits ou qui exécute votre application web essentielle) hébergée dans la région us-east1 d'un fournisseur de cloud traditionnel se révèlera très lent pour les utilisateurs situés Continue reading

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Hyperdrive: Damit Datenbanken global wirken

Hyperdrive macht den Zugriff auf Ihre bestehenden Datenbanken von Cloudflare Workers aus hyperschnell, egal wo sie laufen. Sie verbinden Hyperdrive mit Ihrer Datenbank, ändern eine Codezeile, um eine Verbindung über Hyperdrive herzustellen, und voilà: Verbindungen und Abfragen werden schneller (und Spoiler: Sie können es schon heute nutzen).

Kurz gesagt: Hyperdrive nutzt unser globales Netzwerk, um Abfragen an Ihre bestehenden Datenbanken zu beschleunigen, unabhängig davon, ob sich diese bei einem alten Cloud-Provider oder bei Ihrem bevorzugten Provider für Serverless-Datenbanken befinden. Die Latenz, die durch das wiederholte Einrichten neuer Datenbankverbindungen entsteht, wird drastisch reduziert, und die beliebtesten Leseabfragen an Ihre Datenbank werden zwischengespeichert, sodass Sie oft gar nicht mehr zu Ihrer Datenbank zurückkehren müssen.

Wenn Ihre Kerndatenbank – mit Ihren Nutzerprofilen, Ihrem Produktbestand oder Ihrer wichtigen Web-App – in der us-east1-Region eines veralteten Cloud-Anbieters angesiedelt ist, wird der Zugriff für Nutzende in Paris, Singapur und Dubai ohne Hyperdrive sehr langsam sein und selbst für Nutzende in Los Angeles oder Vancouver langsamer, als er sein sollte. Da jeder Roundtrip bis zu 200 ms dauert, können die mehrfachen Roundtrips, die allein für den Verbindungsaufbau erforderlich sind, leicht bis zu einer Sekunde (oder mehr!) in Anspruch nehmen; und das, bevor Sie überhaupt eine Continue reading

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Hyperdrive: cómo hacer que las bases de datos parezcan globales

Hyperdrive te permite un acceso ultrarrápido a tus bases de datos existentes desde Cloudflare Workers, dondequiera que se ejecuten. Conectas Hyperdrive a tu base de datos, modificas una línea de código para conectarte a través de Hyperdrive, y listo: las conexiones y las consultas son más rápidas (spoiler: puedes utilizarlo hoy mismo).

En pocas palabras, Hyperdrive utiliza nuestra red global para acelerar las consultas a tus bases de datos existentes, tanto si se encuentran en un proveedor de nube heredado como en tu proveedor favorito de bases de datos sin servidor; reduce drásticamente la latencia que implica configurar repetidamente nuevas conexiones a la base de datos; y almacena en caché las consultas de lectura a tu base de datos más populares, lo que a menudo evita incluso la necesidad de volver a tu base de datos.

Sin Hyperdrive, esa base de datos principal (la que contiene tus perfiles de usuario, tu inventario de productos o que ejecuta tus aplicaciones web críticas), ubicada en la región us-east1 de tu proveedor de nube heredado, ofrecerá un acceso muy lento a los usuarios en París, Singapur y Dubái, y más lento de lo que debería ser para los usuarios en Los Ángeles Continue reading