2025-07-01
Complete Gemini CLI Setup Guide for Your Terminal
Google’s Gemini CLI is a free, open-source AI assistant that runs in your terminal. This tutorial walks you through installing it, using built-in tools, trying advanced features like MCP integration,...
John Nichols remembers his colleague & friend, the legendary journalist Bill Moyers....
John Nichols remembers his colleague & friend, the legendary journalist Bill Moyers. “I can’t help but think that Bill Moyers was the best president we never had.” 💬 Join the...
Aether July 2025 Update
Published on July 1, 2025 9:08 PM GMTAether is an independent LLM agent safety research group that was announced last August, and a lot has changed in the past 10...
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How Trusted Execution Environments Power Scalable, Private Smart Contracts
Layer-two blockchain solutions use Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to enable private, off-chain smart contract execution. These systems enhance confidentiality and scalability but introduce new trust assumptions, attack surfaces, and implementation...
Layer-One Confidential Smart Contracts: Architecture, Threats, and Tradeoffs
This article explores Layer-One blockchain systems that integrate Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for confidential smart contract execution. It explains how TEEs are embedded within each node to ensure secure, private...
What Most Blockchain Devs Get Wrong About TEE Security and Smart Contract Privacy
This article presents a structured framework for classifying and evaluating TEE-assisted blockchain systems (TCSC). It distinguishes between layer-one and layer-two architectures, identifies 16 desirable properties (including privacy and blockchain-native traits),...
Four Key Steps to Confidential Smart Contract Execution
Confidential smart contracts run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to enable secure, private, and accountable operations like decentralized e-voting. This article outlines the four core phases—invocation, computation, consensus, and response—and...
To Fix Smart Contracts, Start With Their Secrets
Smart contracts on public blockchains lack privacy, limiting their use in sensitive applications. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating TEE-assisted confidential smart contracts, categorizing them into Layer-1 and...
PlanetScale's classy retirement
Sometimes a service with a free plan will decide to stop supporting it. I understand why this happens, but I'm often disappointed at the treatment of existing user's data. It's...
I'm diagnosing survivors of a zombie apocalypse and only occasionally mistaking cold symptoms for the zombie plague in this military base management sim
Manage a military base and examine survivors for sickness in the demo for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check.
“[Showing] people they are not alone in caring about an issue” is...
“[Showing] people they are not alone in caring about an issue” is an important and overlooked function of protest. “Silence begets silence, which begets further misunderstanding about what a society...
A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate
A revised proposal that changed it to five years was quickly introduced and then abandoned.
Tesla Bros Who Bet on Polymarket That Tesla Would Successfully Launch Full Self-Driving by July Are Now Screwed
Betting on Elon Musk fulfilling one of his promises is a risky venture. But that's what users did on the crypto-based prediction hub Polymarket, who are now on the verge...
Why Calling the Iran Strike ‘Iran’s Pearl Harbor’ is Dangerous
In the wake of Israel’s first rounds of its preemptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, aptly named “Operation Rising Lion,” commentators rushed to share their analyses of the operation...
A custom template system from the mid-2000s era
Using LLMs for code archaeology is pretty fun. I stumbled across this blog entry from 2003 today, in which I had gotten briefly excited about ColdFusion and implemented an experimental...
7 Iconic TV Characters Whose Names Remain a Mystery
Names are one of the most prominent features of TV, holding an almost spiritual significance. Likewise, the absence of a name can also be a powerful tool, adding mystery to...
“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a...
“When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to...
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