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Blockchain for digital inclusion? This platform makes AI accessible to everyone

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The emergence of ChatGPT has not only shown the potential of artificial intelligence, but also raised concerns about further empowering large corporations with increased control. As technology advances, artificial intelligence (AI) has become more than a buzzword used by high-level executives. Today, technology is becoming a part of the world’s everyday interactions, with several real-world use cases emerging. According to an article from MIT Sloan School of Management, some of these prominent use cases include investing in skills and training to transform job quality, rapidly developing content such as with tools like ChatGPT and, in the financial sector, rebalancing taxes. In the blockchain space, another use case was made apparent from early and mid-stage blockchain projects that have begun to use AI and tokenomics to create more liquidity for project tokens. Yet while the applications of AI are many, there is still a great fear that governments and corporations will control AI. Cu...

Microsoft Azure Marketplace integrates on-ramp to blockchain data

Space and Time CEO Nate Holiday said this would allow enterprises to build on the blockchain without compromising security and computing power. Web3 data company Space and Time has announced that developers can now deploy their data warehouse directly from the Azure Marketplace, Microsoft’s online store that provides services and applications to use on Azure. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Space and Time said developers will have an accelerated on -ramp to access, analyze and manage native blockchain data. This allows developers to quickly onboard large enterprise Data volumes to smart contracts and new use cases for indexed blockchain data. Through the integration, businesses will be able to access decentralized Data without rebuilding their existing infrastructure. This will allow enterprises to build on the blockchain without sacrificing security and computing power, according to the announcement. Space and Time CEO Nate Holiday commented that verifiable data across ...

Ether hits 11-month high as post-Shapella withdrawals pass 1M ETH

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Since the Shapella hard fork on April 12, Ether has seen a price gain of nearly 10%. Over 1 million Ether (ETH) worth $2.1 billion has now been withdrawn from Ethereum’s Beacon Chain within the first four days of the Shapella hard fork and Ether has pushed over $2,100 for the first time in 11 months. The 1.03 million ETH withdrawals have come from 473,7000 withdraw al requests, with Saturday, April 15 being the largest withdraw al day at 392,800 ETH according to Data from beaconcha.in. Of the active validators, nearly 87% or 469,000 of the 540,000 are now able to withdraw their staked Ether. April 15 to 16 saw the largest Ether withdrawals processed so far, with 392,800 and 280,400 Ether withdrawn respectively. Source: beaconcha.in While members of the Ethereum community were split on what impact Shapella would have on the price of Ether, the first four days have produced close to a 10% rise. ETH has increased about 9% since the Shapella upgrade took effect late on April 12. Source:...

LastPass attacker stole password vault data, showing Web2's limitations

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LastPass users with weak master passwords may need to change the individual passwords they stored with the service. Password management service LastPass was hacked in August 2022, and the attacker stole users’ encrypted passwords, according to a Dec. 23 statement from the company. This means that the attacker may be able to crack some website passwords of LastPass users through brute force guessing. Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog#lastpasshack #hack #lastpass #infosec https://t.co/sQALfnpOTy — Thomas Zickell (@thomaszickell) December 23, 2022 LastPass first disclosed the breach in August 2022 but at that time, it appeared that the attacker had only obtained source code and technical information, not any customer data. However, the company has investigated and discovered that the attacker used this technical information to attack another employee’s device, which was then used to obtain keys to customer data stored in a cloud storage system. As a result, ...