Chainlink oracle ‘malfunction’ sparks $500k in DeFi liquidations, reignites oracle debate

A Chainlink price feed’s alleged malfunction led to more than $500,000 in liquidations on May 29, sparking fresh debate over the reliability of oracles in DeFi. According to reports, Chainlink’s price oracle for the deUSD stablecoin inaccurately reported its value at $1.03. The incorrect data triggered liquidations for users holding deUSD-denominated debt on Avalanche’s Euler […]

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Inside GitHub: How we hardened our SAML implementation

For over a decade, GitHub has offered enterprise authentication using SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), starting with our 2.0.0 release of GitHub Enterprise Server in November 2014. SAML single sign-on (SSO) allows enterprises to integrate their existing identity providers with a broad range of GitHub products, extend conditional access policies, and bring enterprise organization management […]

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Ripple proposes “network maturity” test to determine when crypto tokens stop being securities

Key Takeaways Ripple Labs proposed a ‘maturity test’ to determine when crypto tokens should no longer be considered securities. Criteria include a $1 billion market value threshold, 10-year operational network, and an open, permissionless structure. Share this article Ripple has proposed a new legislative framework to determine when crypto tokens should no longer be considered […]

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Talk Your Book: Investing in Goldminers

Advertisement Build Your RIA Your Way with Betterment Advisor Solutions Betterment Advisor Solutions is the all-in-one custodial platform purpose-built for independent RIAs. Get the technology and support to serve more clients, more efficiently, across investing, retirement, and cash. Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by VanEck: See here for more information on VanEck’s […]

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Communicating with Interactive Articles

Computing has changed how people communicate. The transmission of news, messages, and ideas is instant. Anyone’s voice can be heard. In fact, access to digital communication technologies such as the Internet is so fundamental to daily life that their disruption by government is condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Council . But while the […]

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Research roadmap update, May 2025

Stack Overflow isn’t just a platform for asking and answering coding questions, it’s also a rich ecosystem for understanding the challenges, trends, and behaviors within the developer community. Behind the scenes, a dedicated team of researchers employ a variety of methodologies to gain valuable insights into how developers learn, collaborate, and problem solve. This research […]

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Understanding RL Vision

Contents In this article, we apply interpretability techniques to a reinforcement learning (RL) model trained to play the video game CoinRun . Using attribution combined with dimensionality reduction as in , we build an interface for exploring the objects detected by the model, and how they influence its value function and policy. We leverage this […]

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