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Slack gives us an early Valentine with its new visual app-design tool

Feb13
by on February 13, 2019 at 4:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


Slack isn’t just a messaging app. The main factor propelling the rise of this $7.1 billion platform is that it’s gradually become the nexus of how people work, thanks to integrations with Jira, Trello, and other popular workplace tools. To help increase the number of integrations available to its users, Slack today is introducing a new WYSIWYG UI tool called Block Kit Builder. At the heart of this is a UI framework called — you guessed it — Block Kit, which sets a standard of how Slack apps should work. It compartmentalises Slack apps into stackable blocks, allowing developers to…

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Video: The Cotodama Lyric Speaker is the ultimate novelty product

Feb13
by on February 13, 2019 at 3:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Goddamn, I love novelty items. You know, those bizarre, kinda useless products that shouldn’t exist, but somehow they blessedly do. A wonderful part of my job is I get to try these devices out. And the latest to grace my desk? The Cotodama Lyric Speaker. Yeah, I hear you. What’s so unusual about a speaker? Or lyrics? It’s not like it’s a notebook that charges your phone or anything. Well, if you’re still questioning the novelty value, I suggest you watch the video above to find out why the Cotodama Lyric Speaker is so… different. But what about for the people reading? How…

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Coinbase handed out a $30K bounty for a critical bug in its systems

Feb13
by on February 13, 2019 at 2:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Another day, another bug. Cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase has handed out a massive $30,000 bug bounty for a critical vulnerability in its systems. The flaw was logged on February 12 via Coinbase‘s vulnerability disclosure program on HackerOne. A Coinbase spokesperson confirmed to Hard Fork the vulnerability has since been fixed, but could not provide any further details about the issue in question. The vulnerability report is closed to the public, but considering the high bounty of $30,000, it seems the flaw was rather severe. Currently, Coinbase has a four-tier reward system based on the impact of the bug: $200 for…

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Intel takes on IBM and Microsoft with its own ‘off-the-shelf’ blockchain packages

Feb13
by on February 13, 2019 at 2:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Intel is expanding its blockchain offering even further to make it easier for businesses to get into the blockchain game. According to marketing materials published earlier this month, the computer hardware and infrastructure manufacturer has launched what it’s calling ‘Intel Select Solution for Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric.’ Under the surface this actually isn’t a change to Hyperledger, Intel’s blockchain software, rather it’s a set of ready-made packages of hardware and software infrastructure to sell directly to businesses. Consider it a sort of “commercial-grade off-the-shelf” option. These solutions are, to no surprise, built on Intel hardware. Devices like Intel’s Xeon Scalable processor…

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