Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

Today, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare: web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools. 

It will provide a single control plane to manage payment policies and access controls across your applications, while also protecting your origin from high payment volumes by handling payment verification and enforcement at the edge. At launch, payments will settle in stablecoins over x402, the open protocol we are building with a coalition of more than 25 industry leaders via the x402 Foundation. 

The evolving business model of the web

For 30 years, the web has run on a simple economic bargain: trading content for human attention. That attention has been monetized through advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce. This bargain funded the Internet as we know it. 

But as agents become the dominant Internet users, the model is breaking. An agent does not look at ads or need to maintain a monthly subscription to all the tools it wants to access. It reads a page or consumes a data feed once, takes what it needs, and moves on. Across the web, AI crawlers already request Continue reading

Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet

One year ago, we declared Content Independence Day. At the time, we could see what many in the industry were beginning to sense: the fundamental economics of the Internet were shifting. AI adoption was accelerating, publishers were experiencing rapid declines in referral traffic, and AI companies were crawling the web at unprecedented scale, often without clearly declaring intent, and almost always without compensation.

We changed the defaults. For all new domains on Cloudflare, AI training crawlers would be blocked by default unless domain owners chose otherwise. We didn't do this to wall off the web. We did it because we believed a healthier ecosystem required transparency, control, scarcity, and ultimately, a market where high-quality content could be valued and exchanged fairly.

A year later, that market has emerged. But the transformation of the Internet has happened even faster than we anticipated. In this report, we share key data points that illustrate how quickly the business model of the Internet has shifted – and what this new content market means for publishers and site owners.

Part I: The Internet has changed – faster than anyone expected

The vertical adoption curve

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Making AI search smarter

Search drives most experiences on the web. It's how we get things done, and how nearly everything on the web gets found — the creators, the merchants, the answer to whatever you just typed into a box. For nearly 30 years, that discovery journey ran on a simple bargain: let a search engine crawl your content, and it sends you visitors. You turned those visitors into a business — through ads, subscriptions, or just the audience itself. Being discoverable and getting paid were the same thing. A year ago, on the first Content Independence Day, we drew a line to defend that bargain in the AI era. But a line in the sand was only a first step. Since then, the prevalence of AI search in consumers’ lives has only accelerated as more than 50% of traffic online is non-human. The threat is no longer a handful of training crawlers you can block; it's search itself being rebuilt around AI answers.

Today's answer engines read your page and hand the user a summary, so the visit — and the revenue that depended on it — isn’t needed. We see it firsthand, and independent research backs it up: a 2025 Continue reading

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

One year ago, we declared the first Content Independence Day, and we gave website owners the means to take back control of their content. The deal between crawlers and website owners that had held up for 30 years — we crawl you, and you get referrals — was no longer true. AI was taking everything and sending back nothing, presenting an existential threat to website owners. And so we launched a one-click "Block AI Bots" option, along with a Pay-Per-Crawl marketplace.

A lot has changed in a year. Last July, conversations around “AI bots” centered around blocking AI training without compensation, pointing to the win–lose deal where content was used for model training with no value driven back to the website owner. But a desire for more nuance has emerged: Content owners still want to be able to protect their content, and they should be compensated for the original content that they work hard to create, curate, and share. We also know that locking down content isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution; website owners want more options than resorting to “block all automation, every time.”

If you run a small site, the problem isn’t just that someone could train models Continue reading

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A better, more nuanced understanding of tasks in recommender systems can help minimize user costs across the entire recommendation process.

 


The current estimate of the world’s population is 8.264 billion people, so the share price of SpaceX is currently at a phenomenal USD $261 per head.

 


The analysis from space monitoring firm LeoLabs, provided to Breaking Defense, found that from January 2021 to January 2025 China has abandoned 51 spent rocket bodies in LEO above 650 kilometers (about 404 miles) in altitude, more than doubling the number for the previous five years to bring the total to 96.

 


A big problem, Pauzauskie said, revolves around reproducibility. So far, labs haven’t been able to show that they can consistently cool semiconductors.

 


This article recounts the evolution of modern computing systems to provide an analysis of security risks and their evolution, with a past and present look at key cyber-defense innovations as well as a perspective on future cybersecurity hard problems.

Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights

Original content is the lifeblood of conversations and curiosities. Imagine a world without it: we could find a thousand ways to regurgitate the same material that’s already been created, but we would witness the decline of fresh ideas and arguments.

Website owners fuel the ecosystem of ideas, news, and interesting tidbits, but they face the increasingly complex challenge of managing traffic to their websites and being paid for their content. While some bot traffic is clearly malicious, it isn’t always obvious when a particular AI crawler is helping or harming your business. To answer this, site owners need granular, reliable data to differentiate between traffic that provides value, and traffic that strains resources while eroding the foundation of their business model: actual humans consuming their content. 

At Cloudflare, we hold a core belief: website owners have the right to control access to their content. We want to help website owners maintain their high-quality content and regulate AI traffic.

To provide much-needed clarity and help website owners take control, we’re excited to announce the new Attribution Business Insights dashboard — designed with business decision-makers and publishers in mind.

The new economics of the Internet

For decades, the business model of Continue reading

PP116: News Roundup—FortiBleed Reveals Password Cracking Is Alive and Kicking, Accenture Goes All-In on OT, and More

Looks like it’s going to be a long, hot cybersec summer. The latest news roundup covers how Microsoft 365 Copilot got turned into a data exfiltration tool, why the FortiBleed attack is about much more than compromised firewalls, and how North Korea exploited a single npm maintainer account to poison more than a hundred software... Read more »

HS137: Did AI Turn “Everybody Codes” into “Nobody Codes”?

“Everybody codes” was an enterprise buzzword. In this era of AI vibe-coding and single-use coding, should everyone code? Should anyone code? John and Johna talk about enterprise strategies with respect to coding in the AI era, including what expertise to look for in employees. AdSpot Sponsor: Meter Meter delivers full-stack networking—wired, wireless, and cellular—to leading... Read more »

The Exonomics of SpaceX

The share price of SpaceX is some USD $164 per share, and if you multiply that price by the total number of shares in the company you get a market capitalisation of USD $2.163 trillion. The current estimate of the world's population is 8.264 billion people, so the share price of SpaceX is currently at a phenomenal USD $261 per head. Is this a rational valuation of SpaceX? Or do we have a classic bubble on our hands?

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It’s no longer just about your IP address or the specific endpoint you think you’re connecting to, it’s about your location and which intermediary services can most effectively handle your request.

 


Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted,” the court held that the AI’s summaries are reflections of the company and “above all an expression of Google’s business activities.”

 


The distribution of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), cloud and content provider capacity across Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) provides a fascinating lens into the physical infrastructure of the Internet and public peering.

 


The memory market – by which we mean dynamic main memory as well as flash persistent memory – has been utterly and perhaps forever changed by the GenAI boom.

 


These days you could be excused by suspecting that the world has gone AI-mad, and if you were at the NANOG meeting your suspicions would’ve only been confirmed!

Cara Mengatasi Layanan Konsumen Situs Slot yang Lambat Merespon

Dalam era digital yang semakin maju saat ini, keberadaan layanan konsumen (CS) menjadi aspek vital terutama bagi bisnis online, termasuk pada situs slot yang semakin diminati oleh masyarakat. Layanan konsumen yang responsif menjadi kunci utama dalam menjaga loyalitas pengguna dan membangun reputasi positif. Namun, tidak jarang pengguna mengalami kendala ketika CS lambat merespon, sehingga menimbulkan kekecewaan dan ketidaknyamanan. Artikel ini akan mengulas secara mendalam langkah-langkah terbaik yang dapat dilakukan ketika Anda menghadapi situasi layanan konsumen yang lambat merespon, khususnya dalam konteks situs slot.

Mengapa Layanan Konsumen Lambat Merespon Terjadi pada Situs Slot?

Lambatnya respons layanan konsumen pada situs slot dapat disebabkan oleh sejumlah faktor yang kerap terjadi pada periode terbaru. Pertama, tingginya volume pengguna yang menghubungi CS dalam waktu bersamaan dapat membebani sistem pelayanan. Situs slot populer saat ini seringkali mengalami lonjakan kunjungan dan transaksi sehingga beban kerja tim CS meningkat drastis.

Selain itu, beberapa situs slot masih mengandalkan sistem manual pada layanan pelanggan tanpa mengintegrasikan teknologi chatbot atau sistem otomatis yang dapat mempercepat respon awal. Kurangnya sumber daya manusia yang memadai juga menjadi faktor penyebab keterlambatan ini. Terakhir, masalah komunikasi internal atau teknis pada platform juga dapat memengaruhi kecepatan merespon pelanggan.

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Python Pre and Post-Change Validation

Python Pre and Post-Change Validation

If you have made a change on a network device, you have probably done the pre and post check dance at some point. You SSH into the device, run a few show commands, save the output somewhere, apply the change, then run the same commands again and compare the two by eye. It works, but it is slow and easy to get wrong. I have missed things this way, and I know most of you have too.

Once you get comfortable with Python, this is one of the first tasks you will want to automate. Instead of copy-pasting output into a text file and squinting at it, you can pull the data with a script, save it to a JSON file, and then run another script that tells you exactly what changed.

In this chapter, we will build a small pre and post check for BGP. I will show you how to grab BGP neighbor state from a device using NAPALM, save it to a JSON file as the pre snapshot, and then do the same again after the change to get the post snapshot. Once we have both, we will compare them with a library called deepdiff, which Continue reading

Ares del Maestrat Spanyol: Desa Pegunungan dan Wisata Sejarah Menarik

Terletak di puncak pegunungan yang menawan, Ares del Maestrat adalah sebuah desa pegunungan di Spanyol yang kaya akan sejarah dan budaya. Kota kecil ini menjadi destinasi menarik bagi para wisatawan yang ingin merasakan pesona alam sekaligus menyelami wisata sejarah yang mendalam. Dengan pemandangan alam yang memesona dan situs-situs bersejarah yang terawat baik, Ares del Maestrat menawarkan pengalaman unik bagi siapa saja yang mengunjunginya.

Lokasi dan Keindahan Alam Ares del Maestrat

Ares del Maestrat berlokasi di wilayah pegunungan Maestrazgo, sebuah kawasan yang dikenal dengan lanskap alamnya yang dramatis dan udara yang segar. Desa kecil ini memiliki ketinggian yang cukup tinggi sehingga memungkinkan pengunjung menikmati pemandangan panorama yang menakjubkan di sekelilingnya.

  • Pegunungan yang luas dan beragam flora.
  • Udara pegunungan yang segar dan menyejukkan.
  • Banyak jalur hiking dan trekking untuk petualangan alam.

Keindahan alam tersebut menjadikan Ares del Maestrat sebagai pilihan tepat bagi para pencinta alam dan aktivitas luar ruangan.

Jejak Peradaban Menawan di Ares del Maestrat

Selain keindahan alamnya, desa pegunungan ini terkenal dengan warisan sejarah yang kaya. Banyak bangunan dan situs peninggalan zaman dahulu yang masih berdiri kokoh, menjadi saksi bisu masa lalu yang gemilang. Wisata sejarah di Ares del Maestrat sangat cocok bagi mereka yang tertarik dengan arsitektur klasik dan Continue reading

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