Cloudflare provides services that enhance website performance and security. The platform has evolved from a background protector of the internet to a more visible player in the AI space.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is vulnerable to prefix hijacks due to a lack of built-in trust. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) allows address space holders to cryptographically authorize which Autonomous Systems (AS) can originate their prefixes through Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs), establishing a chain of trust with five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual