Flare, a layer-1 data protocol, has launched an integrationthat allows NFT buyers to trade on a different blockchain and purchase NFTs using their favored tokens. The interoperability function is available in beta on the network, and it relies on two core interoperability protocols: State Connector.. read more  

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Charles Edwards, a Bitcoin commentator and fund manager, said that the next year's block subsidy halving will be especially important as Bitcoin becomes the "hardest asset in the world with certainty." Edwards believes that the new regime could start from 2023, w.. read more  

The blog post details an actualcyber attack that occurred at Coinbase, where an attacker used social engineering tactics to gain access to an employee's account. The attacker claimed to be from Coinbase corporate Information Technology (IT) and asked the employee for help, leading to a back and fort.. read more  

Jon Charbonneau is writing a series of pieces on his framework for Ethereum, starting with the basics of how value flows through the Ethereum protocol, what ETH is exactly and why it matters, and why people may be wrong about blockchain "profitability." In future pieces, he plans to delve deeper in.. read more  

This article highlights the top CNCF projects to watch out for in 2023, including incubating projects such as Cilium, Backstage, Thanos, gRPC, and Istio. It also covers the top 10 CNCF projects, includingBackstage, Kubevela, Envoy, k3s, Helm, Istio, gRPC, etcd, Prometheus,andKubernetes, with a brief.. read more  

In this article, Omer Hamerman explores the similarities and differences between containers and serverless computing, two popular technologies in the cloud computing domain. While containers offer isolation and flexibility for longer-lived applications, serverless functions are more suited for shor.. read more  

This post shows how complex and layered platform engineering can be, and how it requires different teams with specialized knowledge and expertise to manage and maintain. It emphasizes user-driven interfaces and the need for clear distinctions between internal and externalized platforms optimized fo.. read more  

A curious hotel guest used Wireshark to investigate UDP traffic on an unknown port and found out that the packets were multicast and had the same length of 634 bytes. After using Python to save and analyze the data, the guest discovered that the packets contained MPEG compressed audio data, but it t.. read more  

The Azure B2C service from Microsoft had a cryptographic flaw that allowed an attacker to create an OAuth refresh token with the contents for any user account. This vulnerability was reported to Microsoft by Praetorian in March 2021 and July 2022. Microsoft applied two changes in December 2022 and F.. read more  

This two-part blog series explores how the security of Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions can lead to the compromise of a user’s local machine, demonstrating vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SARIF viewer and Live Preview extensions. The author discovered a high-severity bug in both extensions tha.. read more