
Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge at scale, Meta designed MetaRoCE – a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol purpose-built for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet. We’re releasing the MetaRoCE specification, a reference software implementation and a compliance test […]

MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. We’re sharing how MTIA 300’s built-in NIC chiplets allow it to meet the communication needs associated with training recommendation models with superior performance over general-purpose GPUs. By co-designing MTIA’s communication library, HCCL, alongside t

Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.
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Jin Hee Lee·August 21, 2026AI & ML 
A newly resolved proposal would allow us to select classes that are a prefix for variations with a wildcard, like .prefix-* . Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.


SASusan Aziz·August 21, 2026AI & ML 
Cloudflare OAuth now supports optional scopes, giving users more control over what an app can access and helping developers build secure consent flows around the task at hand.
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Miller Vargas, Adam Bouhmad·August 20, 2026Engineering 
Agentic products pose a unique set of design challenges. Here’s what we’ve heard from leaders.

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we’re taking to improve reliability.

Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.

As AI transforms software economics, the standard revenue playbook is breaking down. Learn how leaders around the world are preparing for agent buyers, updating processes for faster pricing iteration, and building more flexible infrastructure.

Generated code in v0 sandboxes queries Snowflake, but the OAuth token never enters the sandbox. A protocol-aware proxy injects credentials at request time, and blind replacement was itself a leak.

In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, remote timers, achieving co-location and how new defenses further harden Cloudflare Workers.
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Martin, Albert Pedersen·August 19, 2026Security 
Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript. CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though. WordPress.com Student Plan originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

Effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It relies on authority from experience (not credentials), naming tensions but letting them live, keeping the author in the writing, and the expectation that readers recognize the pattern from their own experience.

If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what’s in flight, what’s done, and what’s next.
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Christopher Harrison·August 19, 2026AI & ML 
Gisting compresses context into a set of learned tokens, preserving its quality while making the model faster and cheaper.

Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel are already paying global workers in stablecoins. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.

AI Gateway, now generally available, ensures availability when a provider fails, avoiding low rate limits and providing consistent reliability for AI workloads.

We’re updating Vercel’s Pro plan to better align with how modern teams collaborate and how applications consume infrastructure, and how workloads are changing shape with AI.

Learn how to implement high-performance personalization with Next.js and Vercel. Discover best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and deliver fast, scalable, and revenue-driving ecommerce experiences without sacrificing speed or user experience.

Vercel Agent now works in Slack. Mention @Vercel to diagnose incidents, review PRs, and ship approved changes without leaving the conversation. In public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams.

RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it, and found two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping OTC.