<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-web-search-api/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791616850849.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has recently launched a beta Web Search API through AI Gateway. Available through REST APIs and Cloudflare Workers, it provides unified logging, access controls, and billing, and supports bring-your-own-provider keys.</p> <i>By Renato Losio</i>
<img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has put Quicksilver, the internal key-value store behind nearly every request it serves, into private beta as a Workers KV mode. Reads resolve in 1.62 ms at p99 against 287 ms for classic KV. The constraints decide the use case: 10,000 keys, one megabyte per namespace, and one write per namespace per second.<…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-tsrs-ai-typescript/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1793039825386.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare, VoidZero and Max Schwenk announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, built with the TypeScript team's involvement. Cloudflare claims up to 8x faster checking and 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, though one test against 7.1 b…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-auto-router/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1792492628413.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare has released Auto Router in public beta through AI Gateway, picking a model per request from a classifier that scores complexity, ambiguity, stakes and context dependence. Cloudflare’s own benchmark puts it ten points below Claude Opus 5.5 on success rate at a t…
Sen. Ron Wyden wants CISA and OMB to require Encrypted Client Hello on federal websites and make it a federal contract condition His list of 350 CDN-hosted addresses without ECH includes the FBI tip portal, the VA's crisis line, and hotlines for whistleblowers and civil rights complaints ECH hides site names only alongside encrypted DNS, does nothing for server breaches, and is already blocked in…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/php-critical-rce-patches/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1792866020447.jpg"/><p>PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Amazon recorded an exploitation attempt four days before the patches shipped, and operators spent the day working out whether they ran PHP,…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-hashing-optimization/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1790410589563.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and used statistica…