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We love seeing @radar.cloudflare.com data cited in research papers and other publications. In support of that, shareable widgets on Radar now contain a "generate citation" icon in the action bar, featuring BibTeX, APA, MLA, Chicago, and RIS styles.

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Seeing some additional traffic from Iran on @radar.cloudflare.com since around that same time on April 8: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir

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A recent target of airstrikes, Sharif University of Technology (AS12660) went offline at 23:12 UTC (2:42am local) today.

apnews.com/video/ict-bu...

@ioda.live view:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/12660-IR...

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It is a teeny increase, but in recent weeks Cloudflare Radar now shows #IPv6 crossing the 40% proportion threshold in traffic. It has been hovering at 39% for awhile. We'll just have to wait and see if that is the new floor.

radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage

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We've also extended bot traffic visibility on Radar to support sub-national filters.

Radar now shows bot traffic trends and which networks generate the most bot traffic from your state/region.

Examples: radar.cloudflare.com/bots/2267056
radar.cloudflare.com/bots/5549030

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Cloudflare Radar is a rich source of BGP and routing insights and data.

To recognize its importance, we've broken out "Routing" into its own section, featuring Overview, RPKI, and Anomalies pages, with more to come very soon.

Explore for yourself at radar.cloudflare.com/routing

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Looking a little rough there.

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Flong Time, No See: Forgotten Stories of Printing and Labor Collected essays and reporting on the intersection of type, printing, culture, and labor by journalist Glenn Fleishman

Last 24 hours to pledge for a copy of “Flong Time, No See,” my new book, or get unique letterpress and printing artifacts! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

The book is about printing history through the lens of technology and often-forgotten people who did the work.

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Internet and Airstrikes: Tracking Iran's Extended Communication Blackout In this post, we use Kentik’s traffic statistics to dig into the ongoing internet shutdown in Iran, which began within hours of American and Israeli airstrikes on February 28. This is the second shutd...

Iran is currently enduring its longest-ever internet shutdown, which began shortly after the Feb-28 airstrikes.

My latest post covers all of 2026, outages within the whitelisted traffic, and other observations from our data. #DigitalBlackOutIran

www.kentik.com/blog/interne...

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🌍 Small i18n improvement: If you are using Radar in a language other than English, we now display translated geolocations (geonames alternate names) where available. For example, see radar.cloudflare.com/pt-pt/traffi... or radar.cloudflare.com/ja-jp/traffi...

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Speed test results are now shared between speed.cloudflare.com and radar.cloudflare.com/speedtest.

Detailed results are shown on Speed, while summary and country/network comparisons are shown on Radar, and users can now easily switch between the two views.

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Now I’ll have to check out the new location.

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Seen on the banner at the top of the page at www.cafeluna-centralsq.com

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The latest #Internet shutdown in #Iran has now entered its 7th day. Traffic remains well under 1% of previous levels.
The distribution of remaining traffic by ASN has shifted significantly since the shutdown was implemented.

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir
radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dat...

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I got there in 1995, as they were shifting the business towards the Internet, but it was definitely a unique place. Lots of firsts, but they often didn't do the greatest job around commercialization...

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There's an x-BBN mailing list -- I may share your Kickstarter update there to see if anyone has more information about the acquisition.

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Having started my career at BBN, and being a big fan of @glennf.com's work, this discovery is 🤯

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🆕 on Cloudflare Radar: a lightweight network quality test measuring upload/download speeds and idle/loaded latency.
📈 It also shows how your results compare to the averages for your your country/region and ISP.
➡️Try it out at radar.cloudflare.com/speedtest

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Learn more about the new security insights available on Cloudflare Radar in our latest blog post.

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65% of client HTTPS request traffic is post-quantum encypted. But what does server-side PQ support look like? A new Radar graph tracks PQ support across customer origins, and a new tool enables users to test any Web server for PQ support.

Learn more at radar.cloudflare.com/post-quantum

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We're now publishing Key Transparency audit data for E2EE messaging apps on Cloudflare Radar, showcasing the Key Transparency logs that Cloudflare audits, providing a window into the health and activity of these critical systems.

Learn more at radar.cloudflare.com/key-transpar...

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#ASPA is an emerging standard intended to help further improve routing security. You can now track ASPA deployment at a global, country/region, and ASN level on Cloudflare Radar, including real-time searching for ASPA entries.

Explore it at radar.cloudflare.com/routing#rpki...

#RPKI

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Bringing more transparency to post-quantum usage, encrypted messaging, and routing security We are launching several new security-related data sets and tools on Radar

Cloudflare Radar has added new tools for monitoring PQ adoption, KT logs for messaging, and ASPA routing records to track the Internet's migration toward more secure encryption and routing standards. https://cfl.re/4tY6GB0

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My conversation with @henrihelvetica.bsky.social is now available for on-demand viewing. We covered a broad range of Internet-related topics, including the
@radar.cloudflare.com Year in Review. Check out SPDY STREAM 023 at youtube.com/watch?v=K58J...

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Q&A with David Belson of Cloudflare Cloudflare’s David Belson discusses internet resilience, outages, AI traffic, and the challenge of turning real-time data into true understanding.

Nice interview w/ @dbelson.com about what the internet is all about in 2026, and how complicated it has grown:
from growth, to geo-political realities, to wondering whether you're dealing with humans or not.

nexttechtoday.com/people/qa-wi...

2 months ago 1 1 0 0

In which I discuss Internet resilience, outages, AI traffic, and the challenge of turning real-time data into true understanding: Cloudflare’s Data Chief on the Internet’s Fragile Future nexttechtoday.com/people/qa-wi... via NextTech Today

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I love those "I could have walked there and picked it up more efficiently" types of deliveries....

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Is the problem that you don't have catridges for it?

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