Release 256 continues Icecat’s platform evolution with progress on the next-generation Gallery, new user-organization membership management in Brand Cloud, improved distributor catalog imports, and usability enhancements across Icecat.biz. The release also includes reliability and maintenance improvements that strengthen the foundation for future development. For additional details, please refer to the previous Icecat Release Notes. Next-Generation Gallery: From Foundation to Integrated Image Management In the previous release, we introduced the direction of Icecat’s next-generation Gallery, including locale-specific image ordering and customer-specific galleries. Release 256 takes the next step: building the technical foundation required to make these capabilities reliable, secure, and fully…
The internet has traditionally been designed around one basic assumption: a person is eventually sitting behind the browser. Cloudflare believes that assumption may soon become outdated. The company's CFO, Thomas Seifert, predicts that within five years, non-human internet traffic could become up to 1,000 times larger than human traffic. Humans would become what he described as a "rounding error" online, not because people stop browsing, but because automated activity grows much faster. Bots have already passed an important milestone. Cloudflare data showed earlier this year that automated requests had overtaken human web traffic. Now, AI agents could dramatically accelerate that…
