Published on: 2025-06-03 13:03:50
Introduction We recently made available some teaching material that we have used to teach program verification to scientists and engineers at Amazon. It composed of lecture slides and exercises with solution. If you want to learn about Dafny and program verification, you can jump right in. You will learn how to program in Dafny, how to do use Dafny as a proof assistant, and finally how to verify programs. If instead you are more interested in teaching program verification, you may find the orga
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 03:36:46
Thoughts on Investing and Starting Up It’s been a big week in AI. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic all had major releases, and one clear throughline was the push toward increasingly autonomous coding agents. So we figured this was the perfect moment to talk about how unreliable Large Language Models (LLMs) are as a base technology, and what that means for builders trying to work with them. Unreliability is the core bottleneck to unlocking the full power of LLMs. For all the deserved excitement ar
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is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Apple CEO Tim Cook personally intervened in an attempt to stop a Texas age verification bill, The Wall Street Journal reports. SB 2420 — passed by the legislature but awaiting a signature by Governor Greg Abbott — would require app store operators like Apple to verify the age of users accessing their stores. The company’s opposition
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 05:28:02
Bluesky is ramping up its verification program, even though it's still not exactly clear how it plans to determine which accounts are "authentic and notable" enough for a blue checkmark. One month after the company said it would start giving checkmarks to select accounts, the company is now allowing people to apply for verification . Currently, the application consists of a multi-page Google Form that asks users to share details about their account and why they want to be verified. However, it'
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 09:28:56
Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service. In a post published by the Bluesky Safety account, the company announced that “notable and authentic” accounts can now apply for verification through a new online form. Plus, organizations can request to become a Trusted Verifier to receive access to the tools that allow them to verify others. Bluesky began testing this feature last month with a small handful of organizations, inc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 14:00:41
Back in the mid-1990s, when The Net was among the top box office draws and Americans were just starting to flock online in droves, kids had to swipe their parents' credit cards or find a fraudulent number online to access adult content on the web. But today's kids—even in states with the strictest age verification laws—know they can just use Google. Last month, a study analyzing the relative popularity of Google search terms found that age verification laws shift users' search behavior. It's im
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 01:00:56
In North Carolina, legislators are considering a bill that would grant consumers more control over data collected and sold by companies. Great! Who can argue against that? But that’s not all it’s about. Following national trends, it would also set forth troubling age verification requirements for social media. Although pitched in a “save the kids” framing, these laws are likely to cause more harm than good. Last month, state senators Terry Brown (D) and Allen Chesser (R) introduced the NC Perso
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-05 12:00:00
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. LinkedIn is expanding its free verification system to the wider web, allowing external sites and platforms to integrate LinkedIn verification rather than building their own tool. Adobe is among the first companies to sign up. Adobe is integrating LinkedIn verification into its new Content Authenticity app and existing Behance portfolio platform, allowing creators who’ve gone
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 21:00:06
Bluesky’s launch of a verification system has raised a slew of questions among its user base, from who will be picked — and why — to what outside organizations might be involved and whether the self-verification process will end. TechCrunch has some answers. After a leak last week, Bluesky officially announced Monday the arrival of its verification system, which is designed to ensure that notable people are who they say they are on the social network. While similar in some respects to the syste
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-10 07:16:51
Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them. In 2023, we launched our first layer of verification: letting individuals and organizations set their domain as their username. Since then, over 270,000 accounts have linked their Bluesky username to their website. Domain handles continue to be an important part of verification on Bluesky. At the same time, we've heard from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 03:16:51
Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them. In 2023, we launched our first layer of verification: letting individuals and organizations set their domain as their username. Since then, over 270,000 accounts have linked their Bluesky username to their website. Domain handles continue to be an important part of verification on Bluesky. At the same time, we've heard from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 05:30:24
Bluesky has long resisted creating a checkmark verification system to combat impersonation and fraud. But that all changed Monday when the social media company officially announced it was rolling out verification for high-profile organizations and celebrities. “Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them,” the company said in a new blog post. The company went on to ex
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 09:32:04
Bluesky is adopting an official verification system after all. In an update , the company said it plans to grant blue checkmarks to “authentic and notable” accounts. It will also allow some “trusted organizations" to verify users as well. The change is a notable shift for the upstart platform, which previously resisted the idea of centralized verification. Up to now, the company has relied on a domain-based verification system, which allows users to change their handles to match domains that th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 08:00:00
Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. The social platform, which has experienced rapid growth since it opened to the public in early 2024, formerly relied on an unconventional self-verification system where users could “authenticate” themselves by including custom domains in their web handles. Now it’s adopting a more proactive and traditional verification strategy, with the Bluesky team identifying
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Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform. Like Twitter’s original blue check (RIP), Bluesky’s blue check will verify that notable accounts are legitimate, making it easy for users to trust that an account’s posts are real. In its earliest phase, Bluesky will work with a select few “Trusted Verifiers,” which are independent organizations that can verify accounts as members of their tea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 21:15:59
Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. The blue checks may have a similar look to the system pioneered by Twitter, now X, but Bluesky’s version seems like it will work quite differently. Bluesky’s blue check system may rely on multiple organizations to distribute blue checks, according to the codebase changes. That suggests Bluesky will actively verify notabl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 01:59:22
We’re currently seeing growing concern about the potentially harmful impact of things like social media usage by kids and teens, with many states and countries enacting laws to address this. Discord has responded by starting to use a mix of AI-powered face scans and ID checks in two specific scenarios … Child protection laws Social media apps have been accused of trying to get teenagers addicted to their apps, and also failing to take any meaningful steps to ensure that users meet their claime
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 17:50:00
In context: Discord has proven popular among both gamers and general users, but it's not without its flaws. The messaging and social platform has previously been accused of exposing children to abuse and graphic content by not adequately protecting underage users from predators. This has prompted the company to implement stricter terms of service regarding CSAM and other sensitive content. Discord is currently running a limited test involving age verification through facial scanning technologie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 13:13:58
Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 47 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones & Chris Vallance Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Discord is testing face scanning to verify some users' ages in the UK and Australia. The social platform, which says it has over 200 million monthly users around the world, was initially used by gamers but now has communities on a wide range of topics including pornography. The UK's online safety laws mean platforms with adult
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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 46 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones & Chris Vallance Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Discord is testing face scanning to verify some users' ages in the UK and Australia. The social platform, which says it has over 200 million monthly users around the world, was initially used by gamers but now has communities on a wide range of topics including pornography. The UK's online safety laws mean platforms with adult
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 18:04:32
OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models, according to a support page published to the company’s website last week. The verification process, called Verified Organization, is “a new way for developers to unlock access to the most advanced models and capabilities on the OpenAI platform,” reads the page. Verification requires a government-issued ID from one of the countries supported by OpenAI’s API. An ID can only ve
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 20:00:39
Security verification for hardware is literally foundational: hardware resides on technology’s ground floor, so attacks on it can impact every floor above it, including operating systems, applications, and communications. To examine technology’s hardware foundation, a group of researchers recently used simulation-based hardware information-flow tracking (IFT) for hardware security verification. IFT uses knowledge of design assets to define security requirements, objectives, and boundari
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-26 16:39:14
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new paper by researchers from Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrates that a surprisingly simple test-time scaling approach can boost the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). The key? Scaling up sampling-based search, a technique that relies on generating multiple responses and using the model itself to verify them. Th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 08:56:23
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR One UI 7 introduces a new privacy feature called “Automatic Verification.” This feature allows users to bypass CAPTCHAs, preventing websites from collecting data during the authentication process. Automatic Verification is only available for the Samsung Internet browser. Arguably, one of the most annoying things you’ll run into on the internet is the CAPTCHA. It forces you to frustratingly identify objects or type in distorted characters to prove to a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-04 02:26:51
March 18, 2025 Verification-First Development Or: why test-first development is not the same as test-driven development A while back I argued on the Blue Site that "test-first development" (TFD) was different than "test-driven development" (TDD). The former is "write tests before you write code", the latter is a paradigm, culture, and collection of norms that's based on TFD. More broadly, TFD is a special case of Verification-First Development and TDD is not. VFD: before writing code, put in
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Bumble is doubling down on safety tools, including a feature that verifies a user's identification, as a way to enhance trust and drive user growth. The new optional ID verification will add special badges to the profiles of users who've confirmed their identity via government-issued ID cards. The platform previously had a verification tool that allowed users to take a selfie to confirm their identity, but this takes it to the next level. The tool is available in 11 countries, including the US,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 17:13:30
Bumble is rolling out optional ID verification, adding badges to the profiles of users who’ve confirmed their identity using government-issued ID cards. It arrives as part of a series of safety updates that include a new Share Date feature intended to let you quickly share your date plans with friends and family. ID verification is available now in 11 markets, including the US and UK, with plans to expand further. It requires uploading a copy of a government-issued ID such as a passport or driv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-03 11:34:18
Formal verification tool for Rust: check 100% of execution cases of your programs 🦀 to make applications with no bugs! ✈️ 🚀 ⚕️ 🏦 Even if Rust's type system prevents many mistakes, including memory errors, the code is still not immune to vulnerabilities, such as unexpected panics or wrongly implemented business rules. The way to go further is to mathematically prove that it is bug-free: this is named "formal verification" and what coq-of-rust proposes! This is the only way to ensure your code c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 04:34:51
Bumble is finally catching up with competitor Tinder with a new ID verification feature as dating app users urge for more safety measures. In addition to ID verification, the company also released three more features, including a feature that flags inappropriate messages in chat before users hit send and the ability to share date details with friends. Bumble also launched a “Discover” page dedicated to helping users find matches with similar interests. Bumble’s new verification feature lets us
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-12 12:37:33
Google is pushing back on a bill that would make Utah the first state in the US to have a law requiring app stores to conduct age verification of their users. The company has formally requested the state's governor to veto the bill, passed by the state legislature last week, as it urges states to consider a different approach to app safety. In a blog post from Google public policy director Kareem Ghanem, the company said the Utah law poses “real privacy and safety risks” and that states shouldn
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