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Rumours! Daily tips with Little Bites of Cocoa. Lint for your Swift files and chaining animations in Swift and Objective-C.
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Issue 198
App analytics for everyone! Convert PDFs into CG code and perfect marketing screenshots for your watch apps.
Announcing eΟ: Ethereum on Raspberry Pi Programme
As part of our drive to introduce Ethereum to the far corners of the world, not to mention demonstrate the potential for embedded blockchain technology (even without light-nodes) I'm happy to announce the roll-out of our "eΟ" Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi programme. As part of our programme, we're offering a full-kit...
Olympic: Frontier Pre-Release
What began all the way back on midnight of February 1st 2014, is coming to a close: we are happy to announce the release of the ninth and last in the Ethereum Proof-of-Concept series. We invite the community to participate in the ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet in our present...
Issue 197
Fastlane 1.0. Resizing Images with Neural Networks and how Microsoft brought Clang to Windows.
The end of the beginningβ¦
As part of our tiered release process, we will soon be beginning the final phase prior to our Frontier release. So far our ongoing Proof-of-Concept IX testnet has been running smoothly for around a month with dozens of nodes around the world, well over 200,000 blocks and including clients on...
Issue 196
Analytics! Code signing tips for the watch. What do you put in your screenshots? and Visual Studio compiling Objective-C!
Visions, Part 2: The Problem of Trust
Special thanks to: Robert Sams, Gavin Wood, Mark Karpeles and countless cryptocurrency critics on online forums for helping to develop the thoughts behind this article If you were to ask the average cryptocurrency or blockchain enthusiast what the key single fundamental advantage of the technology is, there is a...
Issue 195
Don't mention Pebble! WatchKit mistakes and how to avoid them and a first look at ReactiveCocoa 3.0!
Issue 194
WWDC ticket time! . ResearchKit is here and on Github! The ultimate guide to code signing and why your spring animations are bad.
Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology
One of the questions that has perhaps been central to my own research in blockchain technology is: ultimately, what is it even useful for? Why do we need blockchains for anything, what kinds of services should be run on blockchain-like architectures, and why specifically should services be run on blockchains...
Ethereum Foundation Open Call re: Board Selection
With Ethereum getting close to its first official launch with Frontier, we have spent the last week of February at our holon in Switzerland discussing what the future of the Ethereum Foundation is going to look like. Since the start of the project, one of our primary dreams has been...
Issue 193
iOS 8.3 & Xcode 6.3 released. Wobbly views and should you be thinking about Force Touch in iOS?
Ethereum Foundation is hiring an Executive Director
Stiftung Ethereum, the Zug, Switzerland-based Ethereum Foundation --ethereum.org, is seeking to immediately fill the Executive Director position within the Foundation. The role involves defining and discharging the day-to-day business of the Foundation and leading the organization at the executive level. The successful candidate will have significant experience in corporate...
DEVgrants: Here to Help
Few would argue against the fact that Ethereum has been gifted with one of the most diverse and thoughtful communities ever gathered around any open source project. Fueled by what can only be described as impassioned determination, developers from all walks of life have risked their time and credibility to...
Ethereum Builders: Tapping Into The Collaborative Potential
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year Iβve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. During the last few months Iβve been researching and testing a number of collaborative tools, constantly...
Blockchain Scalability: Chain-Fibers Redux
History I came up with the first seed of this idea while chatting to Janislav Malahov in Berlin in Spring 2014. Unfortunately, the original article I wrote was lost along with my laptop when it was stolen in Vienna. After chatting over the principles with Vitalik more recently, we...
Bazaar Services
I'm a great believer in judging the present through the knowledge of the past. In the past 25 or so years one of the biggest trends in business and technology was what might loosely be termed as the open source revolution. The notion of it being good business to share...
Issue 192
Watch Apps are ready for submission. The perfect Core Data Stack and a new concept for moving around a navigation controller.
Implementing Vitalikβs vision
Although the core concept was proven last summer when lead developers Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilcke initiated the PoC (proof-of-concept) series in Python, C++, and Go, a lot of engineering effort has gone to solidifying these implementations. We're all anxious to release a stable command line client and...
Ethereumβs unexpected future direction
Ethereum has been preparing what we consider to be the most exciting digital alliance since IBM and Microsoft partnered so successfully on the IBM PC. We know that youβve been anticipating great things from Ethereum and we are delighted to present you with this exciting and unexpected news. As...
Issue 191
Watch apps start to appear on the store. Security bug in AFNetworking and more new frameworks than you'll ever need!
Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year Iβve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the community side and...
Juttaβs update on bug bounty program and security audit
Hi, Jutta writing again β I initially introduced myself when we started the bounty program earlier this year and Iβm happy to provide you with an update on whatβs happening on the security side prior and throughout launch. We have had some high quality submissions by bounty hunters β...
Issue 190
Sources and Resources in Xcode playgrounds. XCActionBar is Alfred for your source editor and What's it like to be featured in an Apple TV Ad?
Mihaiβs Ethereum Project Update. The First Year.
Into the ether Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year Iβve served as the Vice President of the Ethereum Foundation and Director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the...
Will Windows 10 leave enterprises vulnerable to zero-days?
One thing Microsoft has been very public about is Windows 10's new strategy of releasing patches to update the operating system at different times for consumer and enterprise versions.
Issue 189
News on ResearchKit, keep track of what changed in the App Store Review Guidelines and has Xcode been compromised?
Getting to the Frontier
So first some background. Weβve already covered a little about what to expect from Frontier in the Ethereum Launch Process blog postand Gav has given us a comprehensive overview of the state of the development effort. You can also read about some of the ongoing security work, including the bug...
Hackers phish for data with fake Apple Watch giveaway
Apple fans keen to get their hands on the Apple Watch are advised to think before they click, after hackers exploited a wave of enthusiasm around the launch with a phishing scam linked to a fake giveaway.
Operating System Vulnerabilities, Exploits and Insecurity
iOS and OS X the most vulnerable operating systems? Don't confuse vulnerabilities with exploits, or patch frequency with insecurity.
CryptoFortress mimics TorrentLocker but is a different ransomware
ESET assess the differences between CryptoFortress and TorrentLocker: two very different strains of ransomware.
FBI investigating apparent ISIS attacks on Western websites
A number of seemingly unconnected Western websites were hacked over the weekend, with messages claiming Islamic State as the perpetrator.
DDoS attack on feminist blog backfires on International Women's Day
An attempt to silence feminism blog Femsplain backfires on DDoS attackers, as they only help to raise its profile.
Lysa Myers: "There are still only a handful of women in the security field"
There are many female researchers and computer experts who contribute to the field, helping everyone enjoy safer technology. We spoke to one of the most prominent: Lysa Myers, a member of our research team in the US.