Unveiling new Internet trending and routing tools, disruptions, and Kevin Mitnick

Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.

In this week's program, we spend most of the time going over some of the recent Cloudflare Radar (our tool for Internet insights) announcements and insights, including Internet disruptions and DDoS threats. Here’s what we discuss, in order:

• How Twitter became X this week.
• Why Kevin Mitnick, hacker and fugitive turned security consultant that died recently, at 59, was a relevant figure worth remembering (and the “Free Kevin ” 1990s initiative).
• Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar
• Routing information now on Cloudflare Radar
• DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
• Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
• How Cloudflare is staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as “Zenbleed”
• Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing
• The day my ping took countermeasures — deep dive.
• Connection errors in Asia Pacific region on July 9, 2023

At the end, there's also a bit of Oppenheimer vs. Barbie movie phenomenon suggestion.