Lisbon, Portugal
After years as a journalist covering technology, cinema, sports (soccer/football), and mobility (including hosting a TV show about it), I’m now telling data-driven and other stories at Cloudflare.
2022-09-23
Nobody likes CAPTCHAs. Now, with iOS 16 on iPhones, a small enabled toggle can make them disappear while improving privacy on your device. Here’s how to check if it’s “on” and try it out...
2022-08-25
We have amazing deep dives in our blog, but also research and how the Internet works kind of stories. Here are some highlights from 2022, and before (with glimpses of our history)....
2022-08-11
In 2022, cybersecurity, more than ever, is a must-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack with difficult to deal with consequences. Here’s a reading list what you need to know about attacks that is also a guide on how to be protected...
2022-07-14
We show how the July 11-12 James Webb Telescope images that were revealed had an impact on DNS traffic in NASA and ESA websites, video and image hosting platforms, and news websites. The ‘cosmic’ results may be surprising...
2022-07-08
An outage at one of the largest ISPs in Canada, Rogers Communications, started earlier today, July 8, 2022, and is ongoing (eight hours and counting), and is impacting businesses and consumers....
2022-06-09
The UK's Internet traffic was clearly impacted with less traffic than usual during this weekend's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We also show impact from Canada to New Zealand and the royals and news websites...
2022-05-19
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory...
2022-05-16
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries where many observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, there are clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset...
2022-05-10
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy. ...
2022-05-04
Over this past week, we observed an outage in the occupied city of Kherson, south Ukraine, coupled with an apparent shift in who controls the Internet within the region...
2022-05-03
In Uruguay today, UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Global Conference is underway, with a 2022 theme of “Journalism under Digital Siege.” It is a fitting and timely theme...
2022-04-26
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France...
2022-04-20
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
2022-04-11
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
2022-03-29
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
2022-02-22
Tonga, the South Pacific archipelago nation (with 169 islands), was reconnected to the Internet this early morning (UTC) and is back online after successful repairs to the undersea cable that was damaged on Saturday, January 15, 2022, by the January 14, volcanic eruption...
2022-02-14
By now, everyone knows that the Los Angeles Rams won, but we also want to look at which Super Bowl advertisers were the biggest winners, and how traffic to food delivery services, social media and messaging apps, and sports and betting websites changed throughout the game...
2022-01-24
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown...
2022-01-21
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage...
2022-01-19
The latest Internet outage, in the South Pacific country of Tonga (with 169 islands), is still ongoing. It started with the large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago on Friday, January 14, 2022...
