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    Cloudflare says it stopped the largest-ever DDOS attack last weekend.

    I mean, it’s a press release designed to scare you into buying Cloudflare’s services, but check out these numbers:

    Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previous reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.

    Some of the attacked websites included a popular gaming provider, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing platforms. The attacks originated from numerous cloud providers, and we have been working with them to crack down on the botnet.

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    Nilay Patel
    The GOP is not-so-quietly turning into the party of government speech regulations.

    Adi’s written at length about how both sides in American politics appear to be kind of over the First Amendment, but the GOP in particular keeps talking about overturning NYT vs. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case that protects the media’s ability to criticize politicians and other public figures. Leading the charge? Ron DeSantis, who recently appeared on a panel dedicated to overturning the case. I will keep saying this over and over: government speech regulations are bad!

    Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?

    Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech.

    Nilay Patel
    Nilay Patel
    Nilay Patel
    “If you’re going to change the channel, why the hell are you changing it to watch this?”

    A little insight into how Mr. and Mrs. Smith ended up in that Tubi Super Bowl commercial last night.

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    Nilay Patel
    That floppy drive!
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    Nilay Patel
    Here I am on CNBC talking about Google’s very hard path ahead.

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai is an extremely smart and thoughtful guy, but think about how hard his set of choices is right now: he has to roll out chatbot AI search in order to make investors happy, but rolling that out will instantly cause legal, ethical, and regulatory chaos, all while simultaneously increasing the costs of search and reducing the profits of web advertising. Yikes!

    (Also, to be clear, I meant the end of this era of Google. Forgive me, it was 8am and I was in a hotel room in Bellevue.)

    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    Satya Nadella explains why Microsoft is taking on Google now.

    You’ve seen the presentations, so you know what Microsoft and Google have shown when it comes to AI chatbot search.

    Now take 20 minutes and see what Satya Nadella said on Decoder about Microsoft’s big plans for OpenAI and ChatGPT.

    How HBO’s creatives survived corporate chaos

    Authors Felix Gillette and John Koblin explain how your favorite shows kept HBO afloat.

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    Richard Lawler
    Today on the Vergecast — Samsung’s Galaxy S23 and Galaxy Book3 Ultra.

    We’re back in video form (audio feeds for your podcast app are here), and this time yes, I admit it — I was occasionally using Nvidia AI to enhance my eye contact with Nilay, Allison, and Monica.

    Other than the Galaxy Unpacked news, we also discussed earnings results from Apple and Google as they were announced on Thursday and tried to get a handle on what’s happening to big tech companies.