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Confidential computing and the regulatory focus on data in use
How new regulations are making data-in-use protection a compliance requirement, and what confidential computing means for your organization.
How R8 Made Kotlin Coroutines on Android 2x Faster
R8 now optimizes kotlinx.atomicfu's AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants, making Kotlin coroutines up to 2x faster on Android.
Migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
How Cloudflare migrated cdnjs, a CDN serving 9 billion requests daily, onto its Developer Platform and what the move means for open-source…
Cloudflare Enables Post-Quantum Authentication to Origin Servers
Quick take: Cloudflare flipped origin authentication to post-quantum (PQ) cryptography on July 29, 2026. The change lands inside Authenticated Origin Pulls and…
Apple Upgrade Replaces iPhone Loans With Leasing
Apple quietly changed how Americans will pay for its hardware. On July 28 the company launched Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-provided leasing program…
What Broke the Internet in Q2 2026: Storms, Drones, DNSSEC
Cloudflare Radar's quarterly disruption summary reads like a stress test of the physical internet: storms, earthquakes, government shutdowns, drone strikes on cloud…
macOS Tahoe 26.6 Arrives With 150+ Security Fixes
Apple closed out July with the Mac’s turn at the 26.6 update cycle: macOS Tahoe 26.6 began rolling out to all compatible…
Apple Passes Nvidia Again on the Road to $5 Trillion
The most valuable company in the world is, once again, Apple. The company’s stock closed at $336.91 on Monday, July 27, lifting…
iOS 26.6 Patches 87 CVEs — Update Your iPhone Today
Apple shipped iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 on July 27, and the security notes attached to the release are unusually long even…
YouTube Premium Will Bundle Peacock Starting in Early 2027
YouTube Premium is about to become a two-service subscription. NBCUniversal and YouTube announced a multi-year global strategic partnership on July 27, 2026…