Tag: application

User Consent in Data Collection Matters for Privacy: Here's Why

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:59:46 +0000

Your information is worth more than ever before. With every application you access, website you visit, or smart wear you put on, you're likely sharing data—sometimes knowingly, but more often than not, without your knowledge. The following blog discusses why user awareness and consent in data collection are important, how your data gets used, and how to safeguard yourself.

Prefer watching instead of reading? Here’s a quick video guide

https://youtu.be/X4fPgmMZRbM?embedable=true

When It's 3AM and Your App is on Fire: How Distributed Tracing Saves the Day

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:09:26 +0000

\ When your microservices architecture resembles a complex spider web, how do you track down that one frustrating bottleneck causing your customers pain?

The Modern Observability Challenge

It's 3 AM. Your phone buzzes with an alert. A critical API is responding slowly, with angry customer tweets already appearing. Your architecture spans dozens of microservices across multiple cloud providers. Where do you even begin?

\ Without distributed tracing, you're reduced to:

Meet Hedy AI: Mobile App Development & AI Wrapper's Momentum 10

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:19:42 +0000

Congratulations on being a part of the Momentum 10, the elite top 10 startups who demonstrated truly exceptional drive and progress in the year 2024. The Momentum 10 Interview Series will delve into the unique journeys and powerful foundations propelling your startups to the top in the 2024 Startups of The Year campaign!

:::tip Share the link to your City Award/Industry Award here

https://hackernoon.com/startups/industry/ai-wrappers

Clean code vs. quick code: What matters most?

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:23:57 +0000

Picture a craftsman at their workbench, faced with two sets of tools—one built for speed, the other

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Bitcoin builders defend venture capital's role in layer-2 growth

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:04:14 +0000

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State of Tezos Q1 2025

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000
Key Insights
Tezos activated its 17th protocol upgrade, Quebec, which reduced block times to 8 seconds and introduced refinements to staking incentives and Adaptive Issuance, enhancing overall protocol performance.
For the first time, Etherlink generated more transaction fees than Tezos Layer 1, collecting 10,302 XTZ compared to 8,500 XTZ. This milestone highlights Etherlink’s growing contribution as a high-throughput execution environment within the Tezos ecosystem, reinforcing the protocol’s modular vision where Layer 1 provid
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The Privacy Layer: Understanding the Inner Workings of Decentralized Confidential Computing

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000
Key Insights
DeCC introduces the ability to preserve data privacy on inherently transparent public blockchains, enabling private computation and state without sacrificing decentralization.
DeCC secures data while in use, solving a key vulnerability in both traditional and blockchain systems by enabling encrypted computation without exposing plaintext.
Trustless confidentiality is achieved through a combination of cryptographic tools like ZKPs, MPC, GC, FHE, and TEEs with attestation, each offering trade-offs in performan
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Building a Real-Time Change Data Capture Pipeline with Debezium, Kafka, and PostgreSQL

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 12:11:56 +0000

\ Change Data Capture (CDC) is one of the critical patterns in modern data engineering that allows you to track and stream changes from a database in near real time. This is useful for syncing microservices, building data lakes, or feeding analytics systems with the latest data..

\ In this article, we will look at how to set up a CDC pipeline using:
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State of Flow Q1 2025

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 11:01:00 +0000
Key Insights
Flow DeFi TVL hit a new all-time high, increasing 17.7% QoQ to $44.4 million, due to significant growth in DeFi projects such as KittyPunch and MORE Markets.
Flow was the fastest-growing L1 ecosystem in weekly developer growth during Q1. Developer momentum shifted to core work, with the average weekly core devs rising 15.3% to 67.8, and core-repo commits rising 26.5% to 552.
Average daily active addresses jumped 144% to 66,822, while average daily transactions rose 10.6% to 277,782.
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Which Feature Selection Method Performs Best with Changing Data Sizes?

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:03 +0000

:::info Authors:

(1) Mahdi Goldani;

(2) Soraya Asadi Tirvan.

:::
Table of Links
Abstract and Introduction

Methodology

Dataset

Similarity methods

Feature selection methods
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Google now scouting for AI innovators with its rolling AI Futures Fund

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:39:49 +0000
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Can AI Be Conscious? Why Science Needs New Words for Machine Minds

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:07:52 +0000
Table of Links
Abstract and Introduction

Extents and ways in which AI has been inspired by understanding of the brain

1.1 Computational models

1.2 Artificial Neural Networks

Embodiment of conscious processing: hierarchy and parallelism of nested levels of organization
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Google AI for game developers

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 03:40:44 +0000
Revisit announcements from this year's Games Developer Conference (GDC). Explore how Gemma and Gemini models can aid in building AI experiences in games with the launch of Gemma 3, the Unity plugin, its application in a sample game, and scaling games with generative AI in Google Cloud.

‘Dark’ Stablecoins On The Horizon? CEO Warns Of Danger

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 23:00:03 +0000

Governments worldwide are clamping down on stablecoins. That might push some users to turn to so-called “dark” or private stablecoins. They offer uncensorable transfers, but they come with high risks and uncertain practical application.
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Unstructured Data Is Trying to Tell You Something - Try Listening to It: The Human Side of Logs

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:38:08 +0000

It’s Friday afternoon, and your dashboards look great. Charts are green. CPU usage is stable. Database query times are within your SLA. You’re feeling great and ready for the weekend.

\ But little do you know, there’s a significant issue being overlooked by all your metrics—and it’s about to ruin your weekend.

\ Unfortunately, you don’t know about the problem yet. That’s because there’s a disparity between your metrics and the actual user experience. Your dashboards might look great, but your users are telling a different story.

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