Software Architecture’s Biggest Enemy (Not What You Think)
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
The Monetization Gateway will turn the request into a payment and give Cloudflare customers new revenue opportunities, but where this goes is far bigger. An agent is software that acts autonomously on a user’s behalf, and agents are starting to act on their own. Soon they will carry wallets and buy what they need without a person in the loop: a dataset, an API call, a tool, a block of compute… The agent becomes the primary buyer on the Internet, and the request becomes the transaction.
How KV Cache Speeds Up LLMs for Faster AI Models on GPUs
Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data
The decision in Chatrie is important: It is the first digital surveillance decision by the Court since its landmark 2018 ruling Carpenter v. United States, which involved prolonged tracking of people’s movements using cell phone location data. The new case expands that ruling by confirming that even shorter-term surveillance of location data can constitute a search because it can still reveal “private matters,” including “a wealth of detail about a person’s familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations.”