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Coinkite is warning users who generated a seed using a COLDCARD Mk3 on firmware version 4.0.1 or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk. Out of an abundance of…

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Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite warns Coldcard seeds may have weak entropy

Coinkite is warning users who generated a seed using a COLDCARD Mk3 on firmware version 4.0.1 or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk. Out of an abundance of caution, Coinkite is warning all users who generated a seed using a Mk3 on version 4.0.1 (March 2021) or any subsequent version that their funds may be at risk.…

Ethereum Proposal Adds Outcome Checks to Transaction Signing

TLDR A guide to changing the transaction signing experience from “sign some bytes and pray to all the gods”, through “sign some inputs and hope for correct outcomes”, all the way to “sign desired outcomes and sleep easy”. Built from many existing parts — the solution is much easier than it may seem. Thanks to Shahaf Nacson, Dror Tirosh, 0xSkas, and Robert-MacWha for their feedback on this article.…

GitHub launches stacked pull requests in public preview

GitHub launches stacked pull requests in public preview

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can… Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change.…

Amazon S3 Adds Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

Amazon S3 Adds Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations.…

X Launches Encrypted Direct Message API

X Launches Encrypted Direct Message API

Learn what the X Chat API offers: send and receive encrypted direct messages on X, with the Chat XDK handling the hard parts for you. ​ What you need in your app ​ How encryption works (overview) Create identity and signing keypairs; store private keys securely (secure key backup or protected blob). Publish public keys so others can exchange conversation keys with you and verify signatures.…

React Newsletter Highlights Octane, TanStack, and Native Updates

React Newsletter Highlights Octane, TanStack, and Native Updates

Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋\! Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋! This week we have an interesting React challenger, keeping its mental model but compiled ahead of time. Also various major announcements from the TanStack side. On the mobile side, we have interesting RN 0.87 PRs to look at, discussions around workers / worklets, a WebGPU/Skia integration, and React Navigation 8 / Screens 5 progress.…

Superlogical — We are building the multiplexer for all work.

Superlogical launches to build modern terminal multiplexer

Building the multiplexer for all work. We are building the multiplexer for all work. all work. local development. remote access. coding agents. background jobs. production applications. live debugging sandboxes. shared terminals. incident response. humans and machines. operational history. multiplayer work. all work.…

mera. Accounts on any chain and platform, from a passkey. npm install @category-labs/mera

Mera Library Turns Blockchain Accounts Into Passkey Accounts

Accounts on any chain and platform, from a passkey. npm install @category-labs/mera 01 Onboarding without a seed phrase Creating an account is a passkey prompt. Creating an account is a passkey prompt. 02 Cross-device, cross-platform A web app and its native iOS or Android counterpart can use the same passkey to restore the same accounts.…