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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels let you expose a local service via an outbound‑only connection to Cloudflare’s edge network. The service gets a public URL (anycast across 335+ cities) with automatic TLS, DDoS protection, and no inbound ports. It’s positioned for short‑lived agents, webhooks, and testing loops, with JSON health output and no config files.
OONI Probe is a free tool for measuring internet censorship, network performance, and app blocking, with results contributed to an open global dataset. The page provides download links for mobile, desktop, and CLI versions.
The author shares personal experiences encouraging conference attendees to approach speakers and give feedback, and urges speakers and organizers to facilitate those conversations. The post is a reminder that a simple compliment or chat can help speakers gauge impact and improve community connections.
A hobbyist restored a Mentec M11‑based PDP‑11/83 running 2.11BSD, exposing a live status panel that shows CPU, memory, bus, storage, and networking activity while serving this web page.
Snapdrop is a web-based tool for instantly sharing files between devices without requiring any setup or signup. Users open the web app on multiple devices to facilitate direct file transfers.
Cloudflare replaced a static assumption about origin TLS preferences with per-origin measurement, significantly reducing HelloRetryRequests (HRR) during TLS 1.3 handshakes. This optimization cut HRR from 52% to 3.7% for scanned origins and improved p90 handshake latency by over 150ms.
Google Cloud’s GA‑available M4N VM family pairs 5th‑gen Intel Xeon CPUs with Google’s custom Titanium offload to deliver up to 1 M IOPS, 25 GiB/s block‑storage throughput, 400 Gbps VM‑to‑VM bandwidth, and a 26 GB/vCPU memory ratio (up to 5.9 TiB RAM). The design targets memory‑bound, I/O‑intensive workloads (Oracle, SAP HANA, vector search, real‑time analytics) and claims >20 % TCO reduction for…
Datadog Observability Pipelines now ships pre‑built Microsoft Sentinel Packs that map logs from Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Cisco Meraki, and ExtraHop into Sentinel’s CommonSecurityLog or Syslog tables. Packs handle field extraction, severity derivation, and device‑action mapping, letting you filter or drop low‑value events before ingest, validate mappings with Live Capture, and reduce per‑GB…
Meta announced Petal, the first petabit-class transoceanic subsea cable, connecting France and the US over 7,000 km. It's the first to deploy multi-core fiber technology at scale, doubling capacity per fiber without a proportional increase in power or physical infrastructure.
Vercel’s Secure Compute and Static IP builds now start 64% faster by using prewarmed containers, cutting the time from deployment creation to build start from 6.7 s to 2.4 s. The change is automatic and requires no user action.
Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) to advance data centers that can dynamically manage electricity use based on grid conditions. This aims to unlock faster, larger connections for AI infrastructure while supporting energy systems and communities.
This issue of This Week in Rust summarizes recent developments in the Rust ecosystem, including official updates, community projects like OxiSH, observations on language features, and core Rust project changes. It covers compiler, library, Cargo, Rustdoc, and Clippy updates, offering a broad overview of the language's progress.
Vercel added full Sandbox egress firewall capabilities to the Hobby plan, letting you define allow/deny network policies and attach secrets to outbound requests. You can configure policies via code or the Sandbox CLI, reducing data exfiltration risk for low‑cost projects.
Twilio will run two Heightened Awareness Periods (Nov 2‑4 2026 for U.S. midterms and Nov 19 2026‑Jan 4 2027 for BFCM/holiday) to shift high‑volume short‑code and toll‑free traffic to market‑throughput mode, keeping messages out of carrier queues. Most users need no action; high‑volume senders should contact their account team and complete supplemental order forms by the listed deadlines to lock i…
GitHub also accepts SSH connections on port 443 (HTTPS). Add a host entry in your SSH config pointing github.com to ssh.github.com on port 443 to bypass restrictive firewalls.
