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A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:27:19

My website: Publishing Germany's secret internet blocklist In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see. I decided to create a website, cuiiliste.de, to find blocked domains, as the CUII refuses to

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Deep Think with Confidence

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-11-04 22:41:58

Authors: Yichao Fu, Xuewei Wang, Yuandong Tian, Jiawei Zhao Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15260 Code: https://jiaweizzhao.github.io/deepconf TL;DR WHAT was done? The authors introduce Deep Think with Confidence (DeepConf), a test-time inference method that enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Instead of treating all generated reasoning paths equally, DeepConf leverages the model's internal log-probabilities to derive localized confidence scores. It operate

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How to Watch NFL Games Without Cable in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 17:00:06

The summer is winding down, which means the return of cooler weather, Spirit Halloween stores and football. We are less than two weeks away from the start of another NFL season. The 2025 NFL season kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 4, in Philadelphia with the Super Bowl champion Eagles opening their title defense against the Dallas Cowboys in primetime on NBC and Peacock. The following night, the Chiefs and Chargers face off in Brazil for a game that will -- in an NFL first -- stream live free on Yo

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How to Fix Your Context

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-04 20:09:53

Mitigating & Avoiding Context Failures Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely. But before we do, let’s briefly recap some of the ways long contexts can fail: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. Context Distraction: When

Topics: agent context information tool tools

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ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 16:23:33

ThinkMesh ThinkMesh is a python library for running diverse reasoning paths in parallel, scoring them with internal confidence signals, reallocates compute to promising branches, and fuses outcomes with verifiers and reducers. It works with offline Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM/TGI, and with hosted APIs. Note: This is still in it's early development phase and breaking changes can sometimes occur Highlights Parallel reasoning with DeepConf‑style confidence gating and budget reallocation

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A German ISP tampered with their DNS – specifically to sabotage my website

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 23:27:19

My website: Publishing Germany's secret internet blocklist In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see. I decided to create a website, cuiiliste.de, to find blocked domains, as the CUII refuses to

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Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:39:15

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual machines (VMs) from each other, nothing in the system's memory is ultimately out of reach for the host cloud prov

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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 04:28:42

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 12:48:29

We’ve written about how to prevent logging sensitive information when making network requests, but that approach only works if you’re dealing with parameters. What happens when you’re dealing with free text? Filtering the entire string may not be an option if an external API needs to process the value. Think chatbots or LLMs. You could use a regex to filter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers or emails), but that won’t capture everything, since not all sensitive information can

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Apple drags ex-Apple Watch engineer to court over Oppo trade secret leak

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-05 18:15:14

Every now and then, we hear about Apple going after ex-employees who allegedly try to take trade secrets with them when they get hired by the competition. That’s the case with Chen Shi, a former Sensor System Architect for the Apple Watch team. Here are the details. According to Apple’s claim, Shi worked at the company from January 2020 until a couple of months ago, when he left to go work for Oppo, a Chinese company that also makes phones and wearables, like the Oppo Watch. Apple says that in

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DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-07 12:38:14

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 billion in 2024 and of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2025. In April, the healthcare provider revealed in a filing with the U

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-07 14:39:50

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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WhatsApp is working on a voicemail-like feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-07 14:24:44

Heads up if you tend to dodge, ignore, or genuinely miss calls on WhatsApp: the app is working on a voicemail-like feature. Here’s how it will work. According to WABetaInfo (via Tecnoblog), the feature was introduced in the latest Android beta, but not yet on iOS. They explain that if a call goes unanswered, a new “Record voice message” button pops up at the bottom of the screen, alongside the Call again and Cancel options. This lets the user quickly record a voice message, rather than either

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-07 14:34:33

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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Microsoft’s new NFL deal could let you blame Copilot AI for terrible playcalls

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-11-08 03:59:31

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The NFL and Microsoft have extended their arrangement that makes Surface tablets a familiar fixture on gameday sidelines, but naturally, now there’s an AI-powered twist on top. While Tom Brady is no longer actively putting those slates in danger of de

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Missouri Man Dies After Water Skiing Leads to Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-08 23:55:40

A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a rare but nearly always fatal brain amoeba infection likely caught while water skiing. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services disclosed the resident’s death Wednesday, following its initial report of the case last week (though few details about the case were released, several outlets reported the resident was a man). Officials are still investigating the source

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To Infinity but Not Beyond

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 08:30:52

Previously on meyerweb, I explored ways to do strange things with the infinity keyword in CSS calculation functions. There were some great comments on that post, by the way; you should definitely go give them a read. Anyway, in this post, I’ll be doing the same thing, but with different properties! When last we met, I’d just finished up messing with font sizes and line heights, and that made me think about other text properties that accept lengths, like those that indent text or increase the sp

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Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:27:25

Fermat’s Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. It is funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstand

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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-11 14:00:00

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

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Magic Cue on Pixel 10: What is it and how will it make your life simpler?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 23:00:35

TL;DR With the Pixel 10 series, Google has revealed a new AI feature called “Magic Cue.” Magic Cue watches your screen and offers suggestions by pulling relevant information from multiple apps. It currently supports a host of Google apps, with support for third-party apps promised to arrive soon. Despite nearly a decade of selling its Pixel phones (and several years with the Nexus devices before that), Google still strongly relies on unique software experiences to make its phones more compell

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NY Business Council discloses data breach affecting 47,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-15 14:04:08

The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS) has revealed that attackers who breached its network in February stole the personal, financial, and health information of over 47,000 individuals. As the state's largest statewide employer association, BCNYS represents over 3,000 member organizations, including chambers of commerce, professional and trade associations, and other local and regional business organizations, as well as some of the largest corporations worldwide, which employ more than

Topics: bcnys financial incident information medical

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T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-14 17:07:52

A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile's attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms. The Federal Communications Commission last year fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, saying the carriers illegally shared access to customers' location information without consent and did not take reasonable measures to protect that sensitive data against unauthorized disclosure. The fines relate to sharing of real-time location data that was reveale

Topics: customer information location mobile time

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Velasco 2025-11-13 08:41:57

During the two-year research for our book LOOK INSIDE we discovered many amazing illustrations and artists that, for one reason or another, did not make it into the final version of the book. It would be a pity to leave these forgotten on a drawer, so during the next few weeks we will present here some of these masters of the cutaway. A while ago we wrote here about Frank Soltesz, an American illustrator active from the 30’s to the 60’s, and author of a marvelous series of architectural cutaw

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HR Giant Workday Got Hacked

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-16 23:25:40

Workday, a company that provides human resources technology to over 11,000 corporations and 70 million users worldwide, announced in a classic Friday news dump that it suffered a data breach. The company did not disclose how much information was stolen by the hackers, but did reveal that information—including the names, email addresses, and phone numbers—of some users was compromised. The company said the breach hit some of its third-party customer relationship databases. If any other data was

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Workday says hackers used social engineering to access personal data during a breach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:34:51

Human resources technology company Workday has confirmed that a data breach has affected its third-party CRM platform. In a blog post announcing the breach, the company said that a social engineering campaign had targeted its employees, with threat actors posing as IT or HR in order to trick employees into sharing account access or personal information. The company says that while the threat actors were able to access some information from the CRM, there is no indication of any access to custom

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Velasco 2025-11-14 14:41:57

During the two-year research for our book LOOK INSIDE we discovered many amazing illustrations and artists that, for one reason or another, did not make it into the final version of the book. It would be a pity to leave these forgotten on a drawer, so during the next few weeks we will present here some of these masters of the cutaway. A while ago we wrote here about Frank Soltesz, an American illustrator active from the 30’s to the 60’s, and author of a marvelous series of architectural cutaw

Topics: fred freeman illustrations information space

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Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-17 23:00:34

Alan Cumming teases his time filming Avengers: Doomsday. The team behind High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is returning to Disney for a new supernatural dramedy. Plus, Frank Grillo teases Rick Flag Sr.’s arc in Peacemaker season 2. Spoilers, assemble! Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Speaking at a convention in London called For the Love of Fantasy, Ian McKellen seemingly confirmed that Frodo will appear alongside Gandalf in Andy Serkis’ Gollum prequel (although it wasn’t conf

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

Topics: attacks data engineering information workday

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

Topics: attacks engineering information social workday

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Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare "Superpower" Genetic Mutation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:00:05

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics A rare genetic mutation that causes a deficiency in an immune regulator called ISG15 is known to make people more vulnerable to some bacterial infections and cause persistent inflammation — but it can unlock some unexpected antiviral "superpowers" as well. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a team of scientists led by Columbia University professor of pediatric immunology, Dusan Bogunovic, has developed a new an

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Latest Tech News

A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

Deep Think with Confidence

How to Watch NFL Games Without Cable in 2025

How to Fix Your Context

ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

A German ISP tampered with their DNS – specifically to sabotage my website

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

Apple drags ex-Apple Watch engineer to court over Oppo trade secret leak

DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

WhatsApp is working on a voicemail-like feature

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

Microsoft’s new NFL deal could let you blame Copilot AI for terrible playcalls

Missouri Man Dies After Water Skiing Leads to Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection

To Infinity but Not Beyond

Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

Magic Cue on Pixel 10: What is it and how will it make your life simpler?

NY Business Council discloses data breach affecting 47,000 people

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

HR Giant Workday Got Hacked

Workday says hackers used social engineering to access personal data during a breach

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman

Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

HR giant Workday discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare "Superpower" Genetic Mutation

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