A Paris Judicial Court has sided with Cloudflare in a dispute with French broadcaster Canal+, rejecting a request for 50,000-euro-per-day penalties over the company's refusal to block pirate sports streams through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Cloudflare continues to block such sites only through its CDN service, geoblocking 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025 under a single court order, while leaving its DNS resolver untouched.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-09
A brief recap revisits the 2021 incident in which the container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for several days, halting a major global shipping route. The retrospective summarizes the timeline of the grounding and subsequent refloating without providing new details beyond a condensed overview.
cathsenker.co.uk
· 2026-09-27
The US National Science Foundation is moving to a 'portfolio-based' funding approach that blends traditional investigator-driven research with agency-directed priorities, according to an internal letter. The agency has not specified what these directed opportunities will entail, leaving staff and researchers uncertain about future funding categories.
nature.com
· 2026-09-14
Iran-backed Houthi fighters have reportedly captured territory along Yemen's Red Sea coast, including Perim island, which sits in the narrow Bab al-Mandab Strait linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Directly across the water lies Djibouti, a small nation hosting military bases from the US, China, France, Japan and Italy due to the strait's importance to global shipping.
bbc.com
· 2026-09-11
After Sequoia Capital chairman Doug Leone recounted undergoing a root canal without Novocaine to prove his toughness before a meeting, the American Association of Endodontists pushed back publicly. The group, representing over 8,000 specialists, stressed that patients should never endure severe pain during the procedure and should ask for more anesthetic if needed.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-08
Sequoia Capital chairman Doug Leone, worth an estimated $11.7 billion, told his dentist to perform a root canal without novocaine so he wouldn't miss a scheduled meeting. He described gritting through the drilling by comparing it to a soldier's battlefield injuries, then went straight to his meeting before changing his sweat-drenched shirt.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-03
StudioCanal is bringing James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day back to theaters this weekend to mark the film's 35th anniversary and the franchise's fictional 'Judgment Day' date of August 29, 1997. The re-release prompted a retrospective look at the sequel's production history, including Schwarzenegger's push for a follow-up and Cameron's decision to reframe the original Terminator as a protective figure for young John Connor.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-28
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