Explore the worldwide trends that shaped the Internet with Cloudflare Radar’s 2024 Internet Year in Review. Join Host João Tomé and Cloudflare Head of Data Insights, David Belson as they look at Internet trends and patterns across 2024. We also discuss Robotcop and how content creators can prevent bots and crawlers from scraping their sites using a button in the AI Audit section of the Cloudflare dashboard.

From record-breaking mobile traffic to the rise of new social platforms , this year has been one for the books! We're sharing Internet stats from 2024 that shaped the way we connect, share, and create.

This week, host João Tomé is joined by Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired, during his participation at Web Summit, the international event held in Lisbon with over 70,000 attendees. In this conversation, Thompson discusses the Internet, AI, social media, and the challenge of protecting content creators from AI crawlers—a problem Cloudflare’s AI Audit is designed to address. We also explore the 2024 media landscape, its future, and its role in supporting democracy.

Slow web traffic in mainland China? Speed it up with Cloudflare's China Network. Many developer platform products, such as Workers and Pages, are currently supported on the China Network.

Celso Martinho is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare. He works across multiple teams from Radar to Workers AI in our new Cloudflare Lisbon offices. In this conversation, host João Tomé and Celso discuss the rapid growth of Cloudflare Workers, simplifying life for developers, and the importance of observability in AI. Celso also dives into how the challenges for developers have changed since the 1990s tech era and why he believes the Internet is still in its infancy.

In this week’s episode, we look at patent trolls, what they are, and why a recent Cloudflare win also helps the industry to innovate. Host João Tomé is joined by Emily Terrell, Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation, and Patrick Nemeroff, Senior Director, Legal Counsel. We discuss how Cloudflare was sued by the patent troll Sable but emerged victorious. Sable was ordered to pay Cloudflare $225,000 and grant a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio.

In this week’s episode, we recap our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week, and its many announcements. Host João Tomé is joined by Brendan Irvine-Broque (Group Product Manager) and Kelly May Johnston (Director, Product Management). We dive into some of the key announcements of the week, including the AI audit and major improvements in security, performance, and AI/ML support, such as enhanced threat detection and analytics, faster navigation with Speed Brain, and expanded free tools for all users.

Cloudflare One Demo: Threat Defense for Multi-channel Phishing Host: Chris Lopez Date: March 2024.

In this episode, host Joao Tome and cryptographer and security technologist and public policy lecturer, Bruce Schneier discuss the evolving landscape of Internet security. They explore AI-related cybersecurity risks, the impact of new technologies on democracy, and the current state of the global Internet. Schneier examines how new technologies are impacting democratic processes worldwide and provides insights on balancing the delicate balance between privacy risks and benefits in the digital age. The conversation also covers the need for updated regulations and the future of post-quantum cryptography.

From our San Francisco headquarters, we sit down with Jenny Reich, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center on National Security. As an expert in social media law, Jenny examines social media's impact on misinformation, cybersecurity and journalism. In this episode taped during the 2024 RSA Conference, Jenny offers her expert perspective on growing congressional pressure for social media regulation, the origins of data breaches from chat rooms, Section 230 and TikTok as the new Gen Z search engine.