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Cloudflare Radar is a free platform publishing data on global Internet traffic, security threats, routing anomalies, and bot activity trends.
Cloudflare has introduced a system that scores Verified bots on robots.txt compliance and on whether they slow down after an HTTP 429. It reports the result as a trust band, and Cloudflare says it will share scores on Radar later.
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Cloudflare Radar shows Yandex's automated traffic fell sharply after the strikes, but researchers saw no matching drop in known propaganda networks. Cloudflare counts crawlers, scanners and malware as bots, so the dip cannot be read as a count of political accounts.
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OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot began rendering JavaScript on September 25, 2026, according to IP-verified logs from a Japanese Next.js marketplace. OpenAI has not announced it, so the case rests on prefetch URLs that only a JavaScript run can produce.
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Cloudflare says AI-agent requests on its network grew more than 1,700% in a year as non-human traffic passed half the total. It now wants sites to identify and price agents as customers, after advising last year that new domains block AI training crawlers.
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Fewer than 1% of Cloudflare sites block search crawlers while 17% block training. A single mixed-use crawler used to collapse those two into one decision, and the new setting splits it for three named operators.
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A dev.to guide walks Laravel apps from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/3 on nginx, and the part worth reading twice is its admission that the middle step can hurt, because one connection carrying 40 streams stalls on one lost packet.
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Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training control lets Googlebot and Applebot keep indexing a site while a directive Cloudflare writes into robots.txt tells them not to train on it. Bingbot is expected to honor it in early 2027.
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Black Lotus Labs assesses the botnet as Chinese state work under Flax Typhoon, assembled from SOHO routers, NVRs, NAS boxes and IP cameras whose 17-day average lifespan makes the infrastructure disposable by design.
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CHEQ and Cloudflare both published their detection methods this year. Read next to the anti-detect vendor blogs, they show that a buyer outside the vendor can falsify about two things and has to take the rest on trust.
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The bot submission form moves into Application Security and grows a history tab, which means the entry describing your crawler becomes a record you are expected to keep matching your traffic rather than a form you filed once.
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Bot Preference Sync writes Cloudflare's AI bot settings into your robots.txt from the Free tier up. The file becomes a rendering of dashboard state, and Cloudflare's bot database decides what it says.
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Cloudflare says its RFC 9234 tracking found two large Tier-1 networks removing the Only to Customer attribute from routes they forward, blanking the leak signal for everyone behind them.
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