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Passkeys are a passwordless authentication method using public key cryptography. They enhance security, reduce risks like phishing, and simplify the login process.

Forte’s Open Source Rules Engine Empowers Web3 Developers with Dynamic On-Chain Compliance and Economic Solutions for Launching and Managing Digital Assets. With the Rules Engine, developers can define and enforce rules, establish transaction guardrails, manage compliance obligations, and mitigate the risks of volatility.

Researchers have created a way to remove guardrails from language models. They used OpenAI’s own fine-tuning API to manipulate the model's behavior. After training, the model essentially behaves as if it never had those safety instructions in the first place.

Apple has made it clear that applications need to be signed (or say notarized) first before you install them.

Code ownership might not be a pressing concern when you have a small team, but when you scale to hundreds of developers, the dynamics change significantly.

Uplift Modeling is a way to model the impact of marketing campaigns on customer conversion. It aims to identify the customers that are the most incremental for an ad campaign. Uplift models the effect treatment has on conversion.

An error in a PowerShell script will prevent it from completing script execution successfully. Using error handling with try-catch blocks allows you to manage and respond to these terminating errors. Handling errors effectively in scripts can save a lot of troubleshooting time and provide better user experiences.

Learn how to programmatically fetch and embed your liked Bluesky posts using authentication, API calls, and oEmbed endpoints.

Learn how to combine web scraping, proxies, and AI-powered language models to automate data extraction and gain actionable insights effortlessly.

What if you could loop through your JSON data, grab the path of each item, and decide exactly what to do with it on the fly?

Some arguments are full of nonsense and logic traps. Learn to spot 8 common fallacies (like Ad Hominem, Straw Man, and Slippery Slope) and handle them calmly without losing your mind or your faith in humanity.

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A simplified state space model (SSM) architecture merges linear attention and MLP components into a single, unified block, inspired by the gated attention unit (GAU). This design reduces complexity while improving performance in sequence transformation tasks.

LLMs show a nuanced response to increasing distractors: Gemma-7b faces significant accuracy declines, while Mistral-7B Instruct demonstrates more mixed effects. The complexity of distractors particularly impacts reasoning accuracy in syllogistic tasks, underlining the models' sensitivity to added complexity.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 16, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Ims Associates Shipped Imsai 8080 Kits in 1975, China Successfully Landed Yutu in 2013, IBM Discontinued Sales of Os/2 Operating System in 2005, Micr...

INTMAX is the world's first stateless Layer 2 payment solution for Ethereum. The testnet currently operates on the Sepolia Network. It processes transactions using only 5 bytes of on-chain data through advanced zk-Rollup technology. The platform's focus on privacy and security creates new opportunities for financial services.

HackerNoon's Company of the Week features dRPC, a decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider with focus on resilience and latency. dRPC provides intelligent load balancing, data verification, and pay-as-you-go stablecoin payments. dRPC proudly sponsored the #blockchain-api writing contest on HackerNoon this year, offering a $1,000 prize pool for builders, innovators, and everyone involved in the blockchain industry to share their insights on blockchain APIs.

Amsterdam, December, 2024 – Bitvavo has once again solidified its position as the largest EUR spot exchange globally, according to the newly published 2024 report by Kaiko, the renowned provider of market data and analytics in the crypto sector. The report, which covers the first 11 months of this year, shows that the Amsterdam-based Crypto exchange accounts for half of the trading volume in...

In this article, we explore how the X (Twitter) home timeline (x.com/home) API is designed and what approaches they use to solve multiple challenges.

Achieve efficiency and reliability in your GenAI RAG workflows with KubeMQ for seamless message handling and FalkorDB for fast, scalable data storage/retrieval.

Having had a nearly 4-year career, I realize some things that as a student I could never have fully comprehended. Things that, had I known, might have saved me unnecessary stress and self-doubt.

CBDCs can boost financial inclusion, efficiency, and monetary policy but raise concerns about privacy, digital literacy, and environmental impact. Regulatory frameworks, education, and sustainability are key to their success.