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Dive into WebRTC internals: how SDP, ICE/STUN/TURN, and DTLS-SRTP enable secure, real-time media between browsers with no plugins required.

AI can write code within a few minutes, but it can also get hacked just as fast! AI coding tools like Cursor and ChatGPT are reshaping how we build software. Instead of wrestling with complex syntax for hours, developers now have conversations with their editors, and code materializes. But this ease of use often comes … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 6, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The First Drive-In Theater Was Opened in 1933, The Soyuz 11 Was Launched in 1971, The Chicago Elevated Rail System Began Operation in 1892, The Original Chrysler Corporation … Read more

This is the blog version of my talk on type inference at GopherCon 2023 in San Diego, slightly expanded and edited for clarity. What is type inference? Wikipedia defines type inference as follows: Type inference is the ability to automatically deduce, either partially or fully, the type of an expression at compile time. The compiler … Read more

If we’re honest, most cybersecurity frameworks today look great on paper. They accommodate all the buzzwords: NIST, ISO, risk registers, control matrices. They pass audits and have impressive-looking dashboards. And yet, glaring gaps remain. Incidents still happen not because people aren’t working hard, but because the systems guiding them are either too rigid, too detached … Read more

Ever accidentally push secrets to a repository? Or maybe you’ve pushed unformatted code, only to have to create a follow-up “linting” commit? We’ve all been there. These small mistakes can lead to failed CI/CD pipelines and frustrating delays, all because of checks that could have been run locally. Git hooks are a powerful tool to … Read more

Gluwa and Spacecoin are reimagining blockchain’s role by building credit histories for the unbanked and delivering internet access through satellite-powered nodes. Rather than speculation, these projects focus on real-world impact—bringing financial and digital inclusion to underserved populations across the globe.

About the LevelUp series: At The Markup, we’re committed to doing everything we can to protect our readers from digital harm, write about the processes we develop, and share our work. We’re constantly working on improving digital security, respecting reader privacy, creating ethical and responsible user experiences, and making sure our site and tools are … Read more

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The legendary phenomenon of hair Value propositions. Get this right and your product is off to a great start. Naturally, it’s not easy to do but before you tear your hair out over it, pause for a moment. The ultimate answer might literally be sticking out! Yes, this post is about that ultimate product — … Read more

Key Takeaways Developers are starting to look beyond AI-generated code and are asking a bigger question: can these tools help make sense of what’s already written? Some language models are learning to recognize the kinds of patterns that usually show up in well-structured, reliable code. Understanding how content ranks in LLMs could be key to … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 5, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Amazon Launches in 1994, Dolly the Sheep Announced in 1996, The Modern Bikini Introduced in 1946, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Reality Is … Read more

Let’s hack back to the good old days of the PC (personal computing) revolution. Way before Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto. Then jump from there to the future of a world where we have not a few Big Bankers like Jamie Dimon, but where every adult desires to be a banker. Like the open-source decentralization … Read more

We knew from the beginning that aiming for a late-February release was an ambitious timeframe, but the community has risen to the challenge and kept development right on track! As such, you can expect this to be our final beta release of the 4.4 period, with release candidates set to come out shortly after. In … Read more

If you bought a new smart TV during any of the holiday sales, there’s likely to be an uninvited guest watching along with you. The most popular smart TVs sold today use automatic content recognition (ACR), a kind of ad surveillance technology that collects data on everything you view and sends it to a proprietary … Read more

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This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.com Two words I wish someone had told me when I was 22. Choose delusion. … Read more

I used to think startups die when nothing’s working. Bad product, out of cash, incompetent team. Then I started a company. One day we got traction. A few press hits. DMs full of “we should talk,” Sigma-face investors doing the lean-forward “I like what you’re building” thing. Just enough validation to knock us out of … Read more

Startups don’t fail because they lack ambition. They fail because they confuse momentum with machinery. I’ve lived this story more than once, inside some of the most aggressive, high-growth environments on the planet: Uber during its European blitz, Deliveroo at the height of its market battles, Tripadvisor expanding commercial teams, Foodbomb scaling from scrappy founder … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 4, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Hotmail Launches as a Free Email Service in 1996, Lou Gehrig’s Retirement Speech in 1939, Scientists Discover the Higgs Boson Particle in 2012, and we present you with … Read more

Miami, Florida, July 1st, 2025/GamingWire/–FLOKI, the people-powered crypto brand, is set to launch its highly anticipated blockchain game, Valhalla, on mainnet today, June 30th, 2025. Backed by over a multi-million dollar treasury, Valhalla is FLOKI’s boldest product yet — a browser-based, play-to-earn MMORPG built to bring Web3 gaming to the masses. Valhalla is FLOKI’s flagship … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Technical Specifications 3 Academic benchmarks 4 Safety 5 Weakness 6 Phi-3-Vision 6.1 Technical Specifications 6.2 Academic benchmarks 6.3 Safety 6.4 Weakness References A Example prompt for benchmarks B Authors (alphabetical) C Acknowledgements 3 Academic benchmarks On the next page we report the results for phi-3-mini on standard … Read more

Debugging distributed systems is painful without proper observability. This guide shows how we implemented OpenTelemetry in our Node.js microservices stack—from setup to best practices—boosting traceability, performance monitoring, and cross-service debugging with tools like Jaeger and Grafana.

In a world where perimeters have dissolved, Zero Trust is essential for securing cloud-native environments. This guide breaks down the core principles of Zero Trust—Never Trust, Always Verify; Assume Breach; Least Privilege—and applies them to the realities of dynamic infrastructure, microservices, APIs, and multi-cloud complexity. It offers practical tools, implementation strategies, and cultural considerations to … Read more

Observability isn’t just about monitoring anymore—it’s about knowing why things break before users even notice. This article explores the three pillars of observability (metrics, logs, and traces), dives into modern implementation tools like OpenTelemetry and service meshes, and highlights New Relic’s unified platform approach. From reducing downtime to controlling cloud costs, observability is the key … Read more

Zero Trust Security is a modern framework built for cloud-native systems, replacing outdated perimeter-based models. It enforces identity-based access, micro-segmentation, and continuous monitoring to protect applications, data, and infrastructure. While implementation can be complex, its benefits—stronger security, improved compliance, and future-proofing—make it essential for today’s dynamic IT environments.

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Technical Specifications 3 Academic benchmarks 4 Safety 5 Weakness 6 Phi-3-Vision 6.1 Technical Specifications 6.2 Academic benchmarks 6.3 Safety 6.4 Weakness References A Example prompt for benchmarks B Authors (alphabetical) C Acknowledgements 2 Technical Specifications The phi-3-mini model is a transformer decoder architecture [VSP+ 17], with default … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Technical Specifications 3 Academic benchmarks 4 Safety 5 Weakness 6 Phi-3-Vision 6.1 Technical Specifications 6.2 Academic benchmarks 6.3 Safety 6.4 Weakness References A Example prompt for benchmarks B Authors (alphabetical) C Acknowledgements Abstract We introduce phi-3-mini, a 3.8 billion parameter language model trained on 3.3 trillion tokens, … Read more

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A follow-up to Alpha Engineers Build Through Rejection – on persistence, local expertise, and the cost of ignoring battle-tested builders* The appointment to Tonga Cable Ltd. Chairman wasn’t just recognition, it was validation of a truth I’ve been shouting into the wind for years: we have the skills locally, but our some of our leaders … Read more