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We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make the web faster and more reliable for all.
The new JMAP email protocol provides a modern, efficient, easy-to-use API, built on many years of experience and field testing.
We’ve learned of suspicious Git activity on GitLab. Affected users have been notified.
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Twilio's CEO talks about trusted communications, reputation, robocalling, and making it safe to pick up your phone again.
Building a community-owned and -operated internet network for all New Yorkers
This image shows the far side of the Moon, as well as our own planet Earth. It was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver on board the Chinese DSLWP-B / Longjiang-2 satellite (call sign BJ1SN), currently in orbit around the Moon, and transmitted back to Earth where it was received with the…
Guest Post: Content providers are increasingly investing in new submarine cables. Are they forming a cartel?
MQTT is a pub/sub network protocol especially built to enable efficient communication to and from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
This investigates the connections between organizations and people involved with policy making at ICANN focused around the effort to remove price caps from the .ORG domain registry
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called ETS (or...
Category 6 cables -- and to a lesser extent, Category 6a cables -- are widely available from a variety of vendors, including variety stores, office supply stores, consumer electronics stores, and online shops. While a great many people are content to run wireless networks in their homes, the fact is that if you need…
News and announcements from Namebase.
Today we are thrilled to announce the initial OSS preview release of Envoy Mobile, an iOS and Android client network library that brings…
Using the Blurhash algorithm in Mastodon 2.8.1 to generate prettier previews for sensitive media
“What is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?” If you want our answer, it’s Nebula, but I recommend that you read the rest of this short post before clicking that shiny link. At Slack, we asked ourselves…
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them.
We're thrilled to be so invested in QUIC, a new transport protocol that is more responsive, secure, and flexible than what the internet uses today. Learn why, straight from our very own Jana Iyengar, one of the editors of the core document.
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience.
Last year Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project teamed up with ICANN’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer to research the economic factors affecting the decisions of network operators to deploy Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The study was commissioned because we both believe that the Internet community…
Gmail's end-to-end encryption project seemed dead in 2017. Now it's back, but only for key account customers.
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.
Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows
