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Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.
The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS, which is being sunsetted on 28 January 2025.
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.
It's probably old news for most, but I've recently started using Tailscale and wanted to share my experience with it.
By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to…
Spoiler: it doesn’t. But it should.
Who owns the major VPN companies like Express, Nord, and Surfshark? We take you through an interactive map of the murky world of VPNs.
Personal website talking about some stuff I've made and technology
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s resilience against future quantum computing threats while maintaining our existing security guar...
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“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!”
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage…
Thanks to war, geopolitics, and climate change, Europe will have more frequent and more severe internet disruptions in the very near future. Governments and businesses need to prepare for catastrophic loss of communications. Unfortunately, the necessary changes are risky and expensive, which means they won’t do it…
Most websites can't tell you about them. But I can.
The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other. Netscape had...
On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
Released in June 1996, Quake had to ride three technological shock-waves during its lifetime. Besides the emergence of 3D hardware accelerator cards and the growth of the Internet, an operating system shift put game developers in a tough position.
Bitchat is a new messaging app that allows users to chat securely with or without internet access. Download it today via the App Store or Google Play store to begin communicating safely, even when connectivity disappears. Why Bitchat is needed Palestinians are dependent on Israel for their access to electricity,
Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I'm trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error: cloudflare.webp Most of these sites are n...
Take your UniFi network anywhere. The UniFi Travel Router recreates your full network environment on power up, with flexible uplinks, instant policies, and seamless device connectivity.
Building a state machine for travel - tracking Schengen days, the 183-day rule for tax residency across countries, and visa thresholds when governments won't expose state.
Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devices
