United States tech news
Cloudflare gives nonprofits $7.5M in credits to build AI tools
Cloudflare says 30 civil society groups used more than $7.5 million in developer credits to build AI and automation tools, and applications are now open for a second cohort.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare says it is fastest in 74% of top 1,000 networks
The company credits part of the jump from 60% in April to a new measurement method that collects real-user connection times from its Challenge Pages.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare releases Streamline, open-source custom video pipelines
Cloudflare says its new developer playground shows how to build real-time video processing on Workers, Containers and Durable Objects, with code released on GitHub.
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Microsoft Digital Defense Report maps AI’s role in attacks
Microsoft says attackers are using AI for reconnaissance, social engineering and exploit development, while defenders must now secure agents that reach enterprise data, tools and APIs.
Microsoft
Toyota says electrified models made up 58.2% of US sales in September
Toyota Motor North America reported 117,215 electrified vehicle sales in September, a 37.8% volume increase, with 32 electrified Toyota and Lexus models now at dealers.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Y Combinator names Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad partners
The accelerator says both founders spent the last two batches as Visiting Partners and will now work with companies from their first weeks in the batch onward.
Y Combinator
Vulnerability Watch, October 4, 2026: 2 critical CVEs and 2 new vendor and CERT advisories
Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.
NIST
AWS adds GuardDuty enablement to Organizations declarative policies
AWS says security teams can now set a single GuardDuty enablement baseline that applies across every account and Region in an organization, including new accounts.
Amazon Web Services
Brightline Interactive closes $1.25m PIPE led by drone executive
The Nasdaq-listed company says the proceeds will fund SpatialCore, a platform meant to give sensors, robots and digital twins a shared view of the physical world.
Company filings with the US SEC
Cloudflare launches K2 serverless event streams in public beta
Cloudflare says K2 stores events as a durable ordered log built on R2 object storage, with free usage during the beta for Workers Paid accounts.
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