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.
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