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The infrastructure, privacy and platforms behind digital life.
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Root KSK Rollover 2026: DNS Root Zone Switches to KSK-2024
The DNS root zone began signing with KSK-2024 on October 11, 2026. Here is who can be affected.
AWS eu-south-2 Outage: Packet Loss Hits One Spain Availability Zone
A network config change caused packet loss in one zone of AWS's Spain region for 2 hours 40 minutes on October 4.
Azure Gateway Outage Disrupts ExpressRoute and VPN Connections
An Azure gateway outage cut ExpressRoute and VPN connectivity in several regions for almost six hours.
Cloudflare Launches Basin, Its Iceberg Data Platform
The former Cloudflare Data Platform is now generally available, with ingestion, an Iceberg catalog and SQL on R2.
Cloudflare Adds Isolated Worker Previews for Branches
Each preview gets its own URL and configuration, with separate state for supported resources.
Cloudflare Open-Sources Its Privacy Proxy CLI
The pvcli tool makes privacy-protocol requests easier to inspect and debug from the command line.
Explainers & guides
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What Is a CDN? How Edge Caching Works
How a CDN uses edge caches, origins and TTLs—and what it cannot fix.
BGP Explained: How Routes Spread
How BGP spreads routes, why bad announcements travel, and what RPKI origin validation checks.
How DNS Works, and Why It Shows Up in So Many Outages
How a name becomes an address, why caching makes failures uneven, and the three ways DNS breaks in real outages.
Availability Zones Explained: Regions and Failures
A second zone helps only when data, capacity, dependencies and recovery routing can use it.
Cloud SLA Credits: What a Provider Owes After Downtime
Use the service agreement, uptime calculation and eligible bill to assess a cloud credit claim after downtime.
How to Read a Post-Incident Report
Read the impact, timeline and follow-up actions separately to understand an outage and its unresolved work.
Status Page During an Outage: Why It Lags Behind the Problem
Your app is failing and the provider's page is still green. Where the first minutes go, and where to look instead.
Why AI Services Need More Than Powerful Chips
Memory, networking, storage and scheduling determine whether expensive processors stay busy.
What a VPN Can Hide, and What It Cannot
Changing the route of your traffic changes who can observe it. It does not erase your account or browser.
About this desk
An app depends on more than the software visible on its screen. Networks, cloud services, storage and identity systems all shape whether it works and who can observe a user’s activity. This desk follows those connections.
Read why one cloud outage can affect unrelated apps to understand shared dependencies. Our VPN explainer separates network routing from account identity and browser tracking.
We also examine the hardware and operational decisions behind AI services. A powerful chip is only one component of a working system; memory, data movement and capacity planning matter too. The reports and guides below connect infrastructure announcements to the experience of using the resulting products. Vendor performance claims remain attributed, and a proposed benefit is distinguished from a result that has actually been demonstrated.