An Okta login bug bypassed checking passwords on some long usernames

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images On Friday evening, Okta posted an odd update to its list of security advisories. The latest entry reveals that under specific circumstances, someone could’ve logged in by entering...

November 2, 2024

The Revenge of Blue-Collars: Death to Bitcoin, Long Live Dollars | HackerNoon

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The Revenge of Blue-Collars: Death to Bitcoin, Long Live Dollars | HackerNoon

It’s not a nice feeling to wake up one fine day and realize what used to be your HOURLY rate is now your DAILY pay rate. It makes you want to cry. Thank you, AI. Long post-ChatGPT-story short: once a...

August 31, 2024

Go long by generating PDFs in Golang with Maroto – LogRocket Blog

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Go long by generating PDFs in Golang with Maroto – LogRocket Blog

Go, also known as Golang, is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed by Google. It combines the performance and security benefits of a statically typed language with the ease of use typically associated with dynamically typed languages. Due to...

August 23, 2024

Development News

Cache Control, Long story short.

HTTP caching involves storing response messages locally to reduce response time and network bandwidth consumption for future equivalent requests. An HTTP “cache” acts as a local store managed by a subsystem that controls the storage, retrieval, and deletion of messages...

April 14, 2024

How Long Can You Actually Go Without Sleep?

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How Long Can You Actually Go Without Sleep?

Sleepless nights are a reality for many of us: parents of newborns, students cramming for tests, people struggling with insomnia. We all know that we need to sleep, but come on, can’t we go without it for a while? Sort...

April 12, 2024

Design Development News

Short Polling vs Long Polling

Short polling and long polling are two techniques used in web development to continuously check for updates on a server without the user having to manually refresh the page. These strategies enable web applications to deliver updates to users in...

April 3, 2024

Balancing long term investments vs. quick wins – LogRocket Blog

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Balancing long term investments vs. quick wins – LogRocket Blog

In business, the only thing as certain as death and taxes is risk. However, I’ve noticed an increasing trend of risk-aversion among product people. A lot of PMs want to be certain a potential product or feature is guaranteed to...

March 28, 2024

Why Long Context Windows in LLMs can be deceptive (Lost in the Middle problem)

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Why Long Context Windows in LLMs can be deceptive (Lost in the Middle problem)

It seems like OpenAI and Anthropic have been in a battle of context windows for the better part of a year. In May of 2023, Anthropic breathlessly announced: “We’ve expanded Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, corresponding to...

March 21, 2024