Show Notes
In this first 2026 edition of This Week in NET, João Tomé is joined by Patrick Day from Cloudflare’s Impact & Policy team to break down the recently released Cloudflare Impact Report — including how Cloudflare supports elections, protects journalists, advances Internet standards, and expands access to secure AI infrastructure.
At the start, we also go over some of our recent blog posts: • Acquisitions: Astro and Human Native join the Cloudflare ecosystem. • Technical Deep Dive: How a small DNS optimization in 1.1.1.1 exposed a decades-old ambiguity in early Internet standards. • Global Trends: A severe government-directed Internet shutdown in Iran and BGP anomalies observed in Venezuela.
Mentioned topics: Cloudflare Impact Report The Cloudflare Blog
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