The 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report, published March 3rd, is built on telemetry from roughly 20% of the web, and it contains a number that reframes what "login security" actually means in 2026: 94% of all login attempts observed across Cloudflare's network in the last three months originated from bots rather than people. Of the logins that went through, 63% used credentials that had already been compromised in a breach elsewhere.

The industry is throwing around acronyms right now: AIO, AEO, GEO, AI-SEO, and AI Visibility. They all point to the same thing. Search is no longer just Google's blue links. It's ChatGPT answering questions directly. It's Perplexity citing sources in conversational responses. It's Google's own AI Overviews synthesizing results before users ever see a traditional listing...

Over the past few years, I've watched Cloudflare evolve from "the CDN company" to something far more interesting: a full-stack edge platform. DNS. CDN. WAF. DDoS mitigation. Zero Trust. Workers. Pages. R2 storage. D1 database. AI inference at the edge. And now, with their acquisition of Astro and the launch of EmDash last week, they are making a real play at the application framework and CMS layer. At Squeakworks, we've been building on Cloudflare infrastructure for years...

Anthropic announced Project Glasswing yesterday. The short version: they built a model called Claude Mythos Preview that finds software vulnerabilities better than most humans, used it to discover thousands of zero-days in every major operating system and browser, and then decided it was too dangerous to release publicly....

We're making a change that's actually a return. Reiff Valliant & Co. Digital Studios is Squeakworks again... READ MORE