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Binance continues crusade for crypto world domination with new dev platform

Aug30
by on August 30, 2019 at 8:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Just days after announcing its digital asset lending platform, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges Binance has announced the launch of another new platform, this time targeted at blockchain developers. In a blog post yesterday, Binance laid out the foundations its open-source development platform, dubbed ‘Binance X.’ It seems the exchange is seeing this as just another arrow in its quiver towards the target of global cryptocurrency mass adoption. “At Binance, our long-term mission is to provide infrastructure to enable the freedom of money,” the company said in the post. In essence, “X” is an attempt to tie together…

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Android phone brands ranked by OS update frequency: Nokia is #1

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by on August 30, 2019 at 8:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Plugged


One of the major concerns when you buy an Android device is the frequency of updates you’ll receive over the years.. Google has been trying to solve that problem by pushing more fixes through the Google Play services, and initiatives like Project Treble and Project Mainline. Still, a lot of onus falls on phone makers to push frequent OS and security updates. A new report from the research firm Counterpoint shows how different manufacturers have pushed updates in the past year (Q3 2018 – Q2 2019). It notes that Nokia leads the race for pushing updates, with 96 percent of…

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Google researchers reveal data-stealing, web-based iPhone exploit that was active for years

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by on August 30, 2019 at 7:02 am
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Researchers from Google have uncovered what appears to be a concentrated malware campaign targeting iPhones for at least two years. Thankfully, this may be over now, although they warn it’s possible there are others that are yet to be seen. Project Zero, the search giant’s security team tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities in software, said they discovered a small collection of malicious websites that could be used to hack the devices, using previously undisclosed five different exploit chains. The chains leveraged 14 different vulnerabilies that covered every version from iOS 10 all the way through iOS 12. Apple issued a patch in its…

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