Cloudflare’s 2025 Impact Report: Building a More Secure and Open Internet

#ThisWeekinNET — Episode 116 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 HumanNative 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. Subscribe for more weekly conversations on Internet trends, infrastructure, and technology: https://ThisWeekinNET.com/ Read the related blog posts on the Cloudflare Blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com Cloudflare Impact report: https://cloudflare.com/impact