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Proof of Time: Can Blockchain Security Be Built Over Years Instead of Bought?

The mathematical baseline for Proof of Infrastructure Endurance (PoIE): what holds up, what doesn’t, and what we test next. Most blockchains give influence to whoever can spend the most right now: hash power in Proof of Work, stake in…

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GMO cybersecurity team finds info critical to identifying hackers, CEO says

The alleged hacker group has remained publicly silent since its website revealing GMO client personal data was taken down Wednesday.

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Can Waiting Be a Game Mechanic in a Collectible Artwork?

Disclosure: I am the artist behind Plato / The Unseen. This article was developed with AI assistance. The project’s collector mint is still being prepared; I do not present it as a proven commercial or behavioral success. A loading screen…

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Tencent targets Southeast Asia as launch pad for AI agent WorkBuddy amid tough local market

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is using Southeast Asia as a launch pad to take its “cost-effective” artificial intelligence tools global, fronted by its workplace assistant WorkBuddy, amid cutthroat competition at home. The company…

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Interest on loans to Ukraine to cost EU budget at least 35 bln euros — Politico

The EU will repay last year’s loan worth 90 billion euro after the conflict ends, but the interest rates are already weighing on the next budget

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EasyOptOuts data removal service review

Protecting your personal information online is as challenging as ever. With many platforms requiring signups to access information, you’re inadvertently going to disclose personal information online, and this information is often made…

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Immutable Backup Architecture Explained: How WORM and Air-Gapped Storage Actually Stop Ransomware

A ransomware operator doesn't need to break your encryption to win. They need one thing: a credential with enough privilege to reach the backup environment, then either delete the recovery points outright or encrypt them alongside…

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Sporting visible scars, hero flydubai pilot honored by president of UAE

Emirati President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan awards Smit Machchhar and colleagues First Class Order of Zayed for thwarting Omani copilot's attempt to crash plane full of Israelis

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Trump’s DHS hit by data breach as hackers expose records of 41,000 employees

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Ready Server Launches ReadyServer LLM API, Giving Every VPS Customer Private AI Inference at No Extra Cost

Singapore-based VPS hosting provider Ready Server today announced the launch of ReadyServer LLM API, a private, ...

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ModelProof: Proving an AI Model Hasn't Been Tampered With, Stored Forever on Arweave

TL;DR: ModelProof hashes any AI model in your browser, signs a provenance manifest with Ed25519 and stores it permanently on Arweave for free, so anyone can later prove a copy of the weights is authentic, or see exactly which chunks were…

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Mid-nineties, an airport transit hub somewhere in America

A heavy, aging man steps into a stall in the men’s room, slides the bolt shut, and drops his travel bag straight onto the tile floor. His name is Jerome Jacobson. At Simon Marketing, this respectable citizen held nothing less than the…