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Engineering — Understanding Privacy: Protect Your Users, Protect Yourself — Smashing Magazine

Understanding Privacy: Protect Your Users, Protect Yourself — Smashing Magazine

All of us want to create inclusive, safe, and privacy-aware digital experiences, but where to begin? Our brand new Smashing Book, “Understanding Privacy,” written by Heather Burns, can help you lay the ground for future developers, designers, and project managers to build a better web for tomorrow. [Jump to the details](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/12/understanding-privacy-new-smashing-bo

HBHeather BurnsHeather Burns·December 13, 2022Engineering
Engineering — The challenges of sanctioning the Internet

The challenges of sanctioning the Internet

As governments continue to use sanctions as a foreign policy tool, we think it’s important that policymakers continue to hear from Internet infrastructure companies about how the legal framework is impacting their ability to support a global Internet.

LLauraLaura·December 12, 2022Engineering
Engineering — Highlights from Git 2.39

Highlights from Git 2.39

Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.39.

TBTaylor BlauTaylor Blau·December 12, 2022Engineering
SRE & Ops — Open-sourcing Anonymous Credential Service

Open-sourcing Anonymous Credential Service

Meta has open-sourced Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner. ACS enhances privacy and security while also being compute-conscious. By open-sourcing and fostering a community for ACS, we believe we can accelerate the pace of innovation in de-identified authentication. Data minimization — collecting th

CWChris Wiltz·December 12, 2022SRE & Ops
Engineering — Welcome to Cloudflare’s Impact Week

Welcome to Cloudflare’s Impact Week

Over the course of this Impact Week, we will tell other stories about the way that the Internet, and Cloudflare specifically, provide an optimistic opportunity to improve our world.

MPMatthew PrinceMatthew Prince·December 11, 2022Engineering
Engineering — Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle

Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle

This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise. As with the Exhibit H Twitter text message release , there are a lot of articles that quote bits of this, but the articles generally missing a lot of what happened and often paint a misleading picture of happened and t

DLDan Luu·December 11, 2022Engineering
Engineering — Release Radar

Release Radar

Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning…

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·December 9, 2022Engineering
Career & Teams — Alex Kim: Why I joined Cloudflare

Alex Kim: Why I joined Cloudflare

I am excited to announce that as of November 1, I have joined Cloudflare as Country Manager of South Korea to help build a better Internet and to expand Cloudflare’s growing customer, partner, and local teams in Korea.

AKAlex KimAlex Kim·December 8, 2022Career & Teams