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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Fast food giant Steak ‘n Shake launches Bitcoin payments, boosts financial efficiency

Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake has expanded its payment options to include Bitcoin (BTC) at all of its locations globally, where regulations permit. The rollout, which began on May 16, utilizes the Lightning Network to enable faster and lower-cost transactions. The company’s COO, Dan Edwards, revealed the development on May 27 at the Bitcoin […]

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Over 70 Malicious npm and VS Code Packages Found Stealing Data and Crypto

As many as 60 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the package registry with malicious functionality to harvest hostnames, IP addresses, DNS servers, and user directories to a Discord-controlled endpoint. The packages, published under three different accounts, come with an install‑time script that’s triggered during npm install, Socket security researcher Kirill Boychenko said in […]

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Self-classifying MNIST Digits

Contents This article is part of the Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Growing Neural Cellular Automata Self-Organising Textures Growing Neural Cellular Automata demonstrated how simple cellular automata (CAs) can learn to self-organise into complex […]

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Former IMF chief economist believes crypto is a rising threat to the U.S. Dollar’s dominance

American economist Kenneth Rogoff believes that the rise of crypto poses a threat to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar. Rogoff previously served as the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and on the Federal Reserve Board. He is a published author and an economics professor at Harvard University. In an interview with […]

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