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Bluesky executives CEO Toni Schneider and COO Rose Wang said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company will roll out payment tools in coming months, letting users financially support posts and activity they see on the network. The feature is intended to work across Bluesky and other apps built on its underlying protocol, not just within Bluesky's own app.
A commentary published by Nature argues that claims about the energy efficiency of decentralized artificial intelligence systems lack sufficient empirical backing. The authors say more rigorous measurement and evidence are needed before such systems can be assessed as greener alternatives to centralized AI infrastructure.
A tech enthusiast has started burning critical data onto Blu-ray M-Discs and plans to distribute them to trusted friends in sealed cases as a last-resort backup method. The process involves periodically replacing the discs and verifying their integrity during handover ceremonies. This approach aims to safeguard essential personal data against catastrophic loss scenarios.
An attacker manipulated the price of Tectonic's TONIC token by 100x in just 20 minutes, using the inflated collateral to borrow $74 million on the Cronos network. Only about $6 million in Ethereum was actually withdrawn before Cronos halted the chain, with the remainder of the funds left stranded. Cronos validators froze operations, rolled back the chain state to before the exploit, and resumed block production hours later.
A developer has resumed work on DNet, a self-built network stack originally created while studying computer networking, after leaving it dormant for four years. The project handles TAP device creation, Ethernet frame parsing, ARP, ICMPv4, and UDP, and now includes a basic DNS server used as the authoritative resolver for the author's DN42 domain 42420167.xyz.