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Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-08 23:11:39

Two of Verizon’s mobile plans are getting some upgrades at no additional cost. The improvements are being made to the Simple Mobile and Total Wireless plans. All five of the Simple Mobile tiers are being upgraded, while the same is true of the top two Total Wireless levels … All of the upgrades relate to international calling and data usage whilst travelling abroad. CNET has the details. Simple Mobile The $25 Unlimited plan includes 15GB of high-speed data (up from 3GB) and unlimited calling

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Type-machine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 21:59:27

Using Template Haskell to derive the structure of records and simulate structural subtyping Type-machine Code available on GitHub, package available on Hackage. Introduction In Haskell, we usually model data using algebraic data types, like this: 1 data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a Here we defined a Maybe type, which has two constructors, Nothing and Just . The Just constructor has one argument, while Nothing as none. It is common to consider these constructors’ arguments as fields, which c

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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 23:06:15

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion. The company expects to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new database offering Lakebase, and fueling global growth. At the June Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced a new produ

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Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 22:00:03

Travel patterns are changing, with more people in the US venturing outside the country and needing to stay connected. To accommodate this surge, Verizon is boosting the international options in its prepaid Simple Mobile and Total Wireless phone brands starting Aug. 28. Most phone plans include options to call and text people in Canada and Mexico, along with some roaming options for US travelers. Depending on the plan, those options are extended to many other countries around the globe. But you

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LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-09 08:12:37

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from Arizona State University researchers suggests that the celebrated “Chain-of-Thought” (CoT) reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) may be more of a “brittle mirage” than genuine intelligence. The research builds on a growing body of work questioning the depth of LLM reasoning, but it takes a unique “data distribution” len

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Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-11-09 11:43:19

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The enterprise data catalog market has undergone dramatic shifts in the modern gen AI era. Traditional data catalogs served as static repositories where users searched for datasets and documentation. The market expanded to include data governance capabilities with many vendors branding the technology as data intelligence platforms. Early

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Databricks says it's valued at over $100 billion in latest funding round

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-09 22:18:28

Databricks has just entered an exclusive club. The data analytics software vendor said Tuesday that it's raising a funding round that values the company at over $100 billion. That would make Databricks just the fourth private company to eclipse the $100 billion mark, following SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI, according to data from CB Insights. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told CNBC's Brian Sullivan that the total round will exceed $1 billion. The company was last valued by private investors at $62

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Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

news.ycombinator.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-09 21:30:57

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 18:49:15

Many ask themselves, "Why would I use a semantic layer? What is it anyway?" In this hands-on guide, we’ll build the simplest possible semantic layer using just a YAML file and a Python script—not as the goal itself, but as a way to understand the value of semantic layers. We’ll then query 20 million NYC taxi records with consistent business metrics executed using DuckDB and Ibis. By the end, you’ll know exactly when a semantic layer solves real problems and when it’s overkill. It's a topic that

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How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 22:41:02

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. Hero illustration by Rose Wong. When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a.

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Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:41:02

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. Hero illustration by Rose Wong. When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a.

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Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-10 03:28:12

In Brief Google will pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated children’s privacy on YouTube, per Reuters. The lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos; while this kind of data collection has become common, it remains illegal to collect data from children under the age of 13, per the longstanding COPPA legislation. Though Google will settle the case, the company denies these allegations. It’s possible that up to 45 million p

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Trump admin says it convinced UK to drop demand for Apple backdoor

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-10 08:27:50

The UK has dropped its demand that Apple create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard wrote in a post on X last night that she has "been working closely with our partners in the UK... to ensure Americans' private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected. As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a 'back door' that wou

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Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-10 08:48:35

Databricks is in the process of closing a fresh round at a $100 billion valuation, sources confirmed to TechCrunch. The round was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch exclusively the new round is about $1 billion, and was wildly oversubscribed. Databricks, best known for its data analytics products, refrained from selling even more equity because it didn’t need cash for operations after its once record-breaking $10 billion raise at a $

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Positron, a New Data Science IDE

news.ycombinator.com Posit Team 2025-11-10 10:20:25

We are excited to introduce Positron, a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron brings the spectrum of exploration and production work together in one environment so you can move from ideation to insight to application without switching context. Ultimately, we have taken all the learnings from the 14+ years of building RStudio, and applied them to a new platform that treats Python and R as equals. It is a great time to start using P

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Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-10 12:14:22

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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Apple Won't Have to Provide an Encryption Backdoor in the UK, Says US Official

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 16:50:49

The US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, announced on social media late Monday evening that Apple will not be required to provide an encryption backdoor in the UK, easing concerns about weakened privacy and security safeguards. Gabbard said the the private data of Americans will be protected after an agreement was apparently worked out with the UK, following prolonged behind-the-scenes maneuvering. "Over the past few months, I've been working closely with our partners in the UK

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VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-11-10 21:50:00

Single copilots are yesterday’s news. Competitive differentiation is all about launching a network of specialized agents that collaborate, self-critique, and call the right model for every step. The latest installment of VentureBeat’s AI Impact Series, presented by SAP in San Francisco, tackled the issue of deploying and governing multi-agent AI systems. Yaad Oren, managing director SAP Labs U.S. and global head of research & innovation at SAP, and Raj Jampa, SVP and CIO with Agilent, an analyt

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Despite its attempt to appeal, T-Mobile must pay $92m for failing to protect customer location data

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 03:20:37

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A D.C. court upheld a $92 million FCC fine against T-Mobile for failing to protect customer location data. The ruling follows broader FCC fines issued in 2024 against AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, ranging from $47M to $92M. T-Mobile argued the FCC misinterpreted the law and violated its rights but lost; the company says it stopped sharing location data over six years ago. Another day, another set of fines for the big carriers. This time, as first reported

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EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 14:35:02

EloqKV EloqKV is a high-performance distributed database with a Redis/ValKey compatible API. It offers features like ACID transactions, full elasticity and scalability, tiered storage, and session-style transaction syntax — all while preserving Redis' simplicity and usability. EloqKV is engineered for developers who need a modern no-compromise database solution to power the next generation of demanding applications in the AI era. Why Choose EloqKV Over Redis? Feature Redis EloqKV High Perform

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Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 02:10:09

Hi HN, we are Zaid, Muhammad and Hammad, the co-founders of Uplift AI ( https://upliftai.org ). We build models that speak underserved languages — today: Urdu, Sindhi, and Balochi. A billion people worldwide can't read. In countries like Pakistan – the 5th most populous country – 42% of adults are illiterate. This holds back the entire economy: patients can't read medical reports, parents can't help with homework, banks can't go fully digital, farmers can't research best practices, and people m

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UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

news.ycombinator.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-11 06:58:34

The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. “Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” Gabbard posted to X on Monday. “As a result, the UK has agreed

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UK backs down in Apple privacy row, US says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-11 16:05:13

UK backs down in Apple privacy row, US says 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Getty Images The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its controversial demand to access global Apple users' data if required. Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X the UK had agreed to drop its instruction for the tech giant to provide a "back door" which would have "enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our

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The UK will no longer require Apple to create backdoor access to users' data

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:00:14

UK officials will no longer compel Apple to create backdoor access to its users' data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. She wrote on X that she, President Trump and Vice President Vance worked closely with their "partners in the UK" over the past months. "As a result," she continued, "the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a 'back door' that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civ

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UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-11 16:11:23

The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. “Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected,” Gabbard posted to X on Monday. “As a result, the UK has agreed

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US says UK has withdrawn demand to access Apple users' encrypted data

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-11 20:45:24

US says UK has withdrawn demand to access Apple users' encrypted data The Home Office has been approached for comment. The BBC understands Apple has not yet received any formal communication from either the US or UK governments. Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X the UK had agreed to drop its instruction for the tech giant to provide a "back door" which would have "enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties". The US director of na

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Massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 20:17:57

Hackers have stolen the personal information of 1.1 million individuals in a Salesforce data theft attack, which impacted U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July. Allianz Life has nearly 2,000 employees in the United States and is a subsidiary of Allianz SE, which has over 128 million customers worldwide and ranks as the world's 82nd largest company based on revenue. As the company disclosed last month, information belonging to the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen by attack

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Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

news.ycombinator.com Rafal Gancarz 2025-11-08 15:27:27

Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an in-memory object store developed internally. Revamped architecture of Tudum offers much faster content preview during the editorial process and faster page rendering for visitors. Netflix launched Tudum, its official fan website, in late 2021, to provide a destination for Netflix users interested in additional content associated with the company’s shows. The architecture of the website

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Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 06:34:37

A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), reinvented from Google's TPU V2 and V1. tinytpu.mp4 Table of Contents Architecture Processing Element (PE) Function : Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle : Performs a multiply-accumulate operation every clock cycle Data Flow : Incoming data is multiplied by a stored weight and added to an incoming partial sum to produce an output sum Incoming data also passes through to the next element for propagation across the array : Syst

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Apple won’t have to build an iCloud backdoor for UK access to American data

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-11 21:47:42

The UK has retreated from a controversial order that would have forced Apple to provide a backdoor to American users’ data, according to a statement from US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Here are the details. In a post on X, Gabbard said the decision came after months of work with President Trump and Vice President Vance “to ensure Americans’ private data remains private.” She said that, as a result, the UK has agreed to drop the mandate. Over the past few months, I’ve been

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Latest Tech News

Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

Type-machine

Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone

Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

Databricks says it's valued at over $100 billion in latest funding round

Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019)

Google pays $30M to settle lawsuit over children’s YouTube data

Trump admin says it convinced UK to drop demand for Apple backdoor

Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

Positron, a New Data Science IDE

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

Apple Won't Have to Provide an Encryption Backdoor in the UK, Says US Official

VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?

Despite its attempt to appeal, T-Mobile must pay $92m for failing to protect customer location data

EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)

Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

UK backs down in Apple privacy row, US says

The UK will no longer require Apple to create backdoor access to users' data

UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

US says UK has withdrawn demand to access Apple users' encrypted data

Massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1 million people

Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

Apple won’t have to build an iCloud backdoor for UK access to American data

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