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CloudflareCloudflare

So long, and thanks for all the fish: how to escape the Linux networking stack

Exploring innovative techniques to circumvent Linux networking stack limitations for enhanced IP packet forwarding and soft-unicast management at Cloudflare.

10/29/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Defending QUIC from acknowledgement-based DDoS attacks

Cloudflare addresses QUIC's acknowledgement-based DDoS vulnerabilities by introducing dynamic congestion window-aware ACK validation and packet skipping to mitigate Optimistic ACK attacks and ensure fair congestion control.

10/29/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

An in-depth exploration of how Cloudflare built the WARP VPN using Linux networking tools like Netfilter, conntrack, and nftables to securely route and manage IP traffic at scale despite IPv4 limitations.

10/29/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

One IP address, many users: detecting CGNAT to reduce collateral effects

Exploring Cloudflare's machine learning-based method to detect Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) IPs, aiming to reduce collateral damage and socio-economic biases in IP-based security by distinguishing CGNAT from VPN/proxy and single-user IPs globally.

10/29/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Measuring characteristics of TCP connections at Internet scale

Analysis of TCP connection characteristics at Internet scale using Cloudflare's global CDN telemetry reveals heavy-tailed traffic patterns, asymmetries in packet and byte exchange, and insights into congestion control and protocol behaviors to inform network performance improvements.

10/29/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Reasoning’s Razor: Reasoning Improves Accuracy but Can Hurt Recall at Critical Operating Points in Safety and Hallucination Detection

Investigating how reasoning-enhanced large language models trade off accuracy and recall in safety and hallucination detection tasks under strict low false positive rate conditions.

10/29/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

Apple showcases cutting-edge research and innovations in large language models, on-device training, and multilingual NLP at EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China.

10/29/2025
Apple MLApple ML

Toward Machine Interpreting: Lessons from Human Interpreting Studies

Exploring how insights from human interpreting studies can enhance speech translation systems by incorporating adaptive, context-aware mechanisms to achieve more natural and effective machine interpreting.

10/29/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

Microsoft and OpenAI deepen their partnership with a new agreement expanding IP rights, promoting independent innovation, and setting governance and operational frameworks ahead of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

10/28/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Built to benefit everyone

OpenAI has finalized its recapitalization, establishing the OpenAI Foundation to control a mission-driven for-profit entity and directing $25B towards health innovations and AI resilience to ensure AGI benefits all humanity.

10/28/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Doppel’s AI defense system stops attacks before they spread

Doppel leverages GPT-5 and reinforcement fine-tuning to autonomously detect, classify, and mitigate phishing and impersonation threats at internet scale, reducing response times from hours to minutes while ensuring explainable, consistent AI-driven decisions.

10/28/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Knowledge preservation powered by ChatGPT

DNP leverages ChatGPT Enterprise to automate workflows, enhance knowledge preservation, and drive AI-powered innovation across multiple divisions, significantly improving productivity and decision-making.

10/28/2025