Month: September 2024

Your dApp Is Vulnerable – Here’s What’s Causing It

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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Nodes are critical components of the blockchain infrastructure. They handle the communication between the decentralized immutable ledger and front-end applications. These intermediary infrastructures act as the messenger facilitating the requests and responses between nodes and services built on a blockchain. RPC nodes are just like the United States Postal Service (USPS), … Read more

Elastic founder on returning to open source four years after going proprietary

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Licensing kerfuffles have long been a defining facet of the commercial open source space. Some of the biggest vendors have switched to a more restrictive “copyleft” license, as Grafana and Element have done, or gone full proprietary, as HashiCorp did last year with Terraform. But one $8 billion company has gone the other way. Elastic, … Read more

The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter

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The Verge Roughly a month ago, Michael Sayman realized he could finally build the app he’d been thinking about for years: a social network where everyone but you is an AI bot. Large language models are finally good enough and cheap enough that the experience might actually feel social and useful, and not like a … Read more

Take Control of Your Biometric Data: A Step-by-Step Guide to Minimizing Risk

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Have you ever used your face to unlock your phone? Used a fingerprint scanner to get access to your gym? That’s biometric data in action. Biometric data comprises distinct measurable biological or behavioral traits unique to individuals, utilized for identification or authentication. In contrast to conventional forms like passwords, PINs, or ID cards, it relies … Read more