Author: Vidya Saras

Donald Trump’s jaunt to the Middle East featured an entourage of billionaire tech bros, a fighter-jet escort, and business deals designed to reshape the global landscape of artificial intelligence.On the final stop of the tour in Abu Dhabi, the US president announced that unnamed US companies would partner with the United Arab Emirates to create the largest AI datacenter cluster outside of America.Trump said that the US companies will help G42, an Emirati company, build five gigawatts of AI computing capacity in the UAE.Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who leads the UAE’s Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council and…

Coinbase stock dipped after news broke of a cyberattack that exposed customer data and an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation over misstated user numbers in 2021.The double whammy of bad news rattled investors as company stock (COIN) slid 7% in a fall to $244 in after-hours trading on May 15, according to Google Finance.  Coinbase stock 24 hours. Source: Google Finance Coinbase has since confirmed the report from The New York Times, which stated the SEC has been investigating whether Coinbase misstated its user numbers in past disclosures, an inquiry that began during the Biden administration and has continued under the…

Developer Experience2 of 2 scorched earthA decentralized system for peer-to-peer content suggestion utilizing a “Two Of Two Scorched Earth” reward/punishment scheme proposed by Vitalik Buterin to incentivize quality content sharing. The goal of the project is to deliver a proof-of-concept implementation on mainnet to demonstrate the usefulness of this scheme for a variety of applications.Developer ExperienceEthWorksMaintenance and improvements on Waffle, a library for writing and testing smart contracts. Grant objectives include ENS integration, expanded documentation and addition of dynamic mocking.https://github.com/EthWorks/WaffleDeveloper ExperiencePOA NetworkThe Arbitrary Message Bridge can not only transfer tokens between any two EVM-based chains, but can relay any data…

Mastercard is expanding its involvement in cryptocurrency infrastructure through a new partnership with MoonPay, introducing payment cards that allow users to transact using stablecoins.The underlying infrastructure will be provided by Iron—a stablecoin payments company acquired by MoonPay in March—and is expected to launch later this year, though no specific timeline or countries have been confirmed.The service is intended for both individuals and businesses and will automatically convert stablecoins into fiat at the point of sale. Source: MoonPayWhat can we expect from the stablecoin payment cards?The new card service will allow users to make purchases and receive payments in stablecoins, with…

Forecasts only matter when they help make clear, timely decisions about the resources that keep daily work running smoothly. By keeping track of every incoming and outgoing flow as they happen, teams can catch issues before they slow things down. This careful approach to managing liquidity sets the stage for looking at methods that keep everything moving, even when the unexpected happens. Protecting Details in Open Markets Keeping operations steady demands quick moves when markets change, yet businesses using digital assets often discover that balancing privacy with transparency can be tricky. Blockchain transactions are recorded openly, making it challenging to…

Through the Bing APIs, Microsoft helped other search engines save on the cost and time of crawling billions of web pages and developing a searchable index of all available content. The tools allowed them to automatically submit queries and get back results that they could present to their own users for what had been an affordable fee.Over the years, the APIs fueled both general search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Brave, and You.com, as well as more specialized tools used by companies and internet researchers to search specific corners of the web. The quality of the results often wasn’t as high…

American businesses are not supposed to have confidence that they can grow and profit in the People’s Republic of China.

JPMorgan analysts reported that Bitcoin is likely to continue gaining ground at gold’s expense in the second half of the year, driven by rising corporate demand and growing support from U.S. states. According to analysts led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, the ‘debasement trade’—where investors turn to gold and bitcoin to guard against weakening fiat currencies—has turned into a zero-sum contest, where bitcoin is now gaining the upper hand. “Between mid-February and mid-April gold was rising at the expense of bitcoin, while of the past three weeks we have been observing the opposite, i.e. bitcoin rising at the expense of…

A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. But there are about 70,000 different proteins and protein variants in a single human cell, and since scientists can typically only test for a handful in one experiment, it is extremely costly and time-consuming to identify proteins’ locations manually.A new generation of computational techniques seeks to streamline the process using machine-learning models that often leverage datasets containing thousands of proteins and their locations, measured across multiple cell lines. One of the largest such datasets is the Human Protein…

Running shellcode entirely in memory Once the obfuscated PowerShell script is executed, it decodes and reconstructs two chunks of base64-encoded data–one is a shellcode loader, the other a PE file (Remcos RAT). To run this entirely in memory, the script relies heavily on native Windows API functions, such as VirtualAlloc, Marshal.Copy, and CallWindowProcW, accessed via PowerShell’s ability to interface with unmanaged code.Additionally, to stay under the radar, the malware takes a sneakier route: instead of openly listing the Windows tools (APIs) it plans to use, it hunts them down in memory on the fly. This trick, known as “walking the…