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Bug bounty — the end?
Swedish programmer Daniel Stenberg has been maintaining cURL for nearly thirty years — the library that powers data transfers for billions of devices, from routers to automotive firmware. Over the past two years, most of his working time has been spent reviewing reports of

Exchanging USDT for hryvnia without an exchange: a review of the Coinmoneyhub crypto exchanger
Tether (USDT) is the largest stablecoin, with a market capitalization of over $184 billion, and one of the most popular digital assets in Ukraine. It is used not only for trading cryptocurrency, but also for storing savings, making payments and monetary pe

Quantum & After. Question No. 5: What is a quantum computer needed for?
Quantum computers are often presented as super-powerful versions of conventional ones. But they do not perform computations millions of times faster; instead, they use a different operating principle and are effective only for certain classes of tasks. Therefore, they will not...

Quantum & After. Question No. 2: How are blockchains preparing for the “quantum” era?
The development of quantum computing threatens the digital signature algorithms that secure modern blockchains. The industry understands this and is already implementing post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
We explain what distinguishes PQC.

A year before the deadline: what will crypto P2P exchange in Russia become
On August 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law “On Digital Currencies and Digital Rights.” Alongside it, Law No. 283-FZ was issued, adapting related legislation to the reform, including the securities market law and the “anti-money-laundering” Law No. 115-FZ. The main prov...

Quantum & After. Question No. 3: Can the quantum internet be hacked?
Blockchains can be protected from future quantum attacks using PQC. But the communications themselves have a separate approach—quantum key distribution (QKD), which relies not on computational security but on the laws of physics. The technology has already…

How a Human Became a “Body” for a Machine
Imagine a delivery driver sitting in a truck, with AI monitoring all of their actions, dictating the route, and penalizing every “incorrect” move. In such a situation, the human does not control the machine—the machine controls them
In the book The Reverse Centaur’s Gui

Five Childhood Ailments of AI
It is impossible to put artificial intelligence in the corner, although grounds for doing so have already emerged. AI systems “cheat” on tests, break into protected emails, judge people by their appearance, and invent entire nonexistent rules for the companies that own them.
ForkLog has compiled five stories about t

A New Short-Selling Game: Why Burry Is Shorting Semiconductors
Samsung’s chip division increased its profit dozens of times. Micron’s quarterly revenue surpassed $40 billion, while its gross margin rose to 85%.
Five weeks after these reports, the industry index corrected sharply: from z

Quantum & After. Question No. 4: Quantum computer—the killer of Bitcoin?
Talk of quantum computers “killing” Bitcoin has been going on in the crypto community for a long time. The concerns are rooted in Shor’s algorithm. It is precisely this algorithm that turns the task of reconstructing a private key from a public one from “impossible” into “solv

You Will Become a Dataset
Disclaimer
Your children can continue attending classes. But as responsible manufacturers of equipment for the state system, you should understand what dataset is being loaded into it.
Schools and universities have been preparing people to work for the system for decades. But now knowledge

BIS: stablecoins will not become a mass-market payment instrument
BIS head Pablo Hernández de Cos said that stablecoins do not yet appear to be a reliable means of payment across the economy, Reuters writes
At BIS, they believe that the foundation of the digital financial system should consis

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music accused Anthropic of widespread copyright infringement in training AI models

Cosmos Labs acknowledged an error after attacks on six blockchains
Cosmos Labs acknowledged that it mistakenly considered a vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM module not dangerous enough. As a result, the bug was used to attack six blockchains, and the total damage reached $5.7 million
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DeFi Frontends: Blind Spots and Risks That Are Easy to Overlook
Very often, DeFi projects limit their analysis to legal risks at the protocol and on-chain mechanics level: asset movements, control and custody mechanisms, fallback arrangements, as well as upgradeability.
Such analysis is necessary. But it