Measuring WordPress Performance Without Fooling Yourself
Before you trust any before-and-after speed number, you need to know whose cache you tested, where the request came from, and whether a bot skewed the sample.
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Cloudflare Traces a Six-Week Image-Truncation Bug to a Race Condition in Rust’s Hyper Library
A subtle timing issue in the hyper HTTP library caused Cloudflare's Images service to silently truncate large image responses, and it took a six-week investigation to track down a fix that was just four lines of code.
WordPress Education Programs Are Scaling Up Fast, Podcast Guests Explain
A recent WP Tavern podcast episode digs into how three WordPress education initiatives, the Credits Program, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs, are working together to bring new contributors into the project.
Cloudflare Adds Saga Rollbacks to Workflows for Safer Multi-Step Automation
Cloudflare Workflows now lets developers define rollback logic directly inside each step, replacing manual compensation code with built-in, durable undo handling when a workflow fails.
Qualcomm Pushes Into AI Data Centers With Meta CPU Deal and New Platform
Qualcomm unveiled a multigenerational CPU agreement with Meta and a new AI inference architecture, part of a broader push to build a $15 billion data center business by fiscal 2029.
Grid Bottlenecks, Not Power Shortages, Threaten AI Data Center Growth
A new ICF report finds US electricity demand could jump 39% by 2035, but the sharper constraint is whether transmission networks can actually deliver that power to fast-growing data center hubs.
Carolinas Lithium Find Could Bolster Grid Storage for AI Data Centers
A new USGS study estimates 1.4 million metric tons of recoverable lithium oxide in the Carolinas, a resource that could support the battery storage systems utilities need as AI data center demand grows.
Web Font Optimization for WordPress: Stop Fonts from Blocking Paint
Learn how self-hosting, subsetting, preloading, and font-display swap keep custom fonts from delaying your Largest Contentful Paint or causing layout shift.
AI Data Centers Force Utilities to Rewrite Decades-Old Playbook
Utility executives and grid reliability officials say hyperscale AI campuses are outpacing traditional planning for transmission, substations, and equipment, forcing faster and larger-scale infrastructure decisions across the power sector.