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Tech PR people are weirdly okay with GDPR

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


GDPR has an impact on virtually every industry that deals with personal data. Take, for example, the PR industry. Publicists rely on the personal information of journalists, editors, and tastemakers, in order to build the public image of their clients. It’s fair to say that, as an industry, PR is as equally driven by data as it is relationships. But most PR people are pretty sanguine about GDPR — the good ones, at least. In fact, they welcome it, as they believe it’ll weed out the bad actors from the industry. You know, the ones that’ll buy a list of…

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Chinese internet security firm finds major vulnerabilities in EOS before Mainnet launch

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 9:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Finance, Hard Fork, Insights


Security researchers are finding loopholes in the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchains one after another. The latest in the series is the blockchain and smart contracts platform EOS. Qihoo 360, a Chinese internet security company, has discovered a series of high-risk vulnerabilities in the EOS network. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to gain remote control over any EOS node, construct and publish malicious smart contracts, or become a ‘free miner’ and dig up digital currencies based on the EOS platform. Since the attacker can gain complete control over an EOS node, they can literally do whatever they want. This includes stealing…

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Chinese internet security firm finds major vulnerabilities in EOS before Mainnet launch

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 9:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Finance, Hard Fork, Insights


Security researchers are finding loopholes in the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchains one after another. The latest in the series is the blockchain and smart contracts platform EOS. Qihoo 360, a Chinese internet security company, has discovered a series of high-risk vulnerabilities in the EOS network. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to gain remote control over any EOS node, construct and publish malicious smart contracts, or become a ‘free miner’ and dig up digital currencies based on the EOS platform. Since the attacker can gain complete control over an EOS node, they can literally do whatever they want. This includes stealing…

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TNW2018 attendees tell us which technology will be our downfall

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


We met some truly awesome people last week at TNW Conference. The whole point was to learn about the future of tech, and so we wanted to ask some attendees which technology would be our downfall and our savior. Some of their answers were wonderfully existentialist: Thomas Neau “Tech is tools. I don’t expect to be saved by tech, I just need to use it. I trust people to do the right thing.”   Max Meijer “I’m not sure if I can answer this correctly, but I have to say I think the biggest tech-failure so far is that it…

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TNW2018 attendees tell us which technology will be our downfall

May29
by on May 29, 2018 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


We met some truly awesome people last week at TNW Conference. The whole point was to learn about the future of tech, and so we wanted to ask some attendees which technology would be our downfall and our savior. Some of their answers were wonderfully existentialist: Thomas Neau “Tech is tools. I don’t expect to be saved by tech, I just need to use it. I trust people to do the right thing.”   Max Meijer “I’m not sure if I can answer this correctly, but I have to say I think the biggest tech-failure so far is that it…

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