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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...
Published on: April 27, 2015 | Source:
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Issue 195
Don't mention Pebble! WatchKit mistakes and how to avoid them and a first look at ReactiveCocoa 3.0!
Published on: April 24, 2015 | Source:Issue 194
WWDC ticket time! . ResearchKit is here and on Github! The ultimate guide to code signing and why your spring animations are bad.
Published on: April 17, 2015 | Source: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...
Published on: April 13, 2015 | Source: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...
Published on: April 10, 2015 | Source:Issue 193
iOS 8.3 & Xcode 6.3 released. Wobbly views and should you be thinking about Force Touch in iOS?
Published on: April 10, 2015 | Source: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...
Published on: April 08, 2015 | Source: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...
Published on: April 07, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Builders: Tapping Into The Collaborative Potential
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the vice president of the Ethereum Foundation and as director of Ethereum Switzerland. During the last few months I’ve been researching and testing a number of collaborative tools, constantly...
Published on: April 06, 2015 | Source: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...
Published on: April 05, 2015 | Source: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...
Published on: April 05, 2015 | Source:Issue 192
Watch Apps are ready for submission. The perfect Core Data Stack and a new concept for moving around a navigation controller.
Published on: April 03, 2015 | Source:Implementing Vitalik’s 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...
Published on: April 02, 2015 | Source:Ethereum’s 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 you’ve been anticipating great things from Ethereum and we are delighted to present you with this exciting and unexpected news. As...
Published on: April 01, 2015 | Source:Issue 191
Watch apps start to appear on the store. Security bug in AFNetworking and more new frameworks than you'll ever need!
Published on: March 27, 2015 | Source:Ethereum Builders: A Proposed Experiment
Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve 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...
Published on: March 20, 2015 | Source:Jutta’s update on bug bounty program and security audit
Hi, Jutta writing again – I initially introduced myself when we started the bounty program earlier this year and I’m happy to provide you with an update on what’s happening on the security side prior and throughout launch. We have had some high quality submissions by bounty hunters –...
Published on: March 20, 2015 | Source: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?
Published on: March 20, 2015 | Source:Mihai’s 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 I’ve 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...
Published on: March 14, 2015 | Source: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.
Published on: March 13, 2015 | Source:Issue 189
News on ResearchKit, keep track of what changed in the App Store Review Guidelines and has Xcode been compromised?
Published on: March 13, 2015 | Source:Getting to the Frontier
So first some background. We’ve 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...
Published on: March 12, 2015 | Source: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.
Published on: March 12, 2015 | Source: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.
Published on: March 10, 2015 | Source:CryptoFortress mimics TorrentLocker but is a different ransomware
ESET assess the differences between CryptoFortress and TorrentLocker: two very different strains of ransomware.
Published on: March 09, 2015 | Source: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.
Published on: March 09, 2015 | Source: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.
Published on: March 09, 2015 | Source: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.
Published on: March 06, 2015 | Source:Issue 188
Ready to submit your Watch apps? It's almost go time. FRP and Swift and major 3D game engine releases.
Published on: March 06, 2015 | Source:The Ethereum Development Process
So I'm not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I'd document it. In a nutshell, it's sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development. While speed-developing our alpha codebase, four of us sat around a table in the...
Published on: March 05, 2015 | Source:Casper Malware: After Babar and Bunny, Another Espionage Cartoon
In this post, we lift the veil on Casper - another piece of software that we believe to have been created by the same organization that is behind Babar and Bunny.
Published on: March 05, 2015 | Source:FREAK attack: security vulnerability breaks HTTPS protection
A widespread, long-standing security flaw that allows attackers to decrypt HTTPS-protected traffic between certain device and potentially millions of websites has been uncovered by security researchers, reports Ars Technica.
Published on: March 04, 2015 | Source:The Ethereum Launch Process
I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now comeaboard to help smooth the release process (some of the content in this blog is out of date, please see this link for the most up to date...
Published on: March 03, 2015 | Source:Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update V
I was woken by Vitalik's call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot. The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to the train station was wet....
Published on: March 02, 2015 | Source:Blu-ray exploits could allow computer malware infection
A pair of possible exploits in hardware and software used for playing Blu-ray discs have come to light, reports PC World.
Published on: March 02, 2015 | Source: