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Consent: It’s Not Just for Doctors’ Offices Anymore—Tech Needs It Too | HackerNoon

When you hear “consent,” you might think of signing forms at a doctor’s office, giving the medical team permission to treat you. This kind of medical consent is critical, ensuring patients understand what’s being done to their bodies and can make informed choices about their health. However, there is another realm where consent plays a crucial role — the world of technology and data privacy. In this series, I’ll explore how the principles of medical

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SquareX Unveils Polymorphic Extensions That Morph Infostealers Into Any Browser Extension | HackerNoon

PALO ALTO, Singapore, March 6th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–With recent attack disclosures like Browser Syncjacking and extension infostealers, browser extensions have become a primary security concern at many organizations. SquareX’s research team discovers a new class of malicious extensions that can impersonate any extension installed on the victim’s browser, including password managers and crypto wallets. These malicious extensions can morph themselves to have the exact same user interface, icons and text as the legitimate extension, making it an

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Bybit Becomes The First Exchange To List USDtb , Bringing Institutional-Grade Stability To Crypto | HackerNoon

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, March 6th, 2025/Chainwire/–Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, becomes the first platform to include USDtb, a blockchain-based USD stablecoin created and managed by Ethena Labs, on its Spot exchange. USDtb combines the liquidity of stablecoins with the security and transparency of institutional-grade U.S. Treasury assets, marking a pivotal innovation in the evolution of digital dollars. USDtb is backed primarily by BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund Token (BUIDL),

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Let’s Talk About The American Dream

A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask us to confront where we’ve been, where we are, and who we want to be. That’s why I’m incredibly honored to be joining Alexander Vindman in giving a talk

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Adding More Humanity to the Bitcoin Mining Process | HackerNoon

Have you heard of the Bitcoin mining hash rate? It is a measure of how much electrical energy is being used to mine Bitcoin/BTC. To most Bitcoiners, this energy is stranded energy. So mining is like a free-energy seeker – finding new energy sources, trapping, and channeling it into a profitable process. Enough to make renewable energy profitable without government subsidies. Finally. But there could be more to the story. Humans could be using that

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How Does Apple’s Ambitious $500 Billion US Manufacturing Plan Affect its Wall Street Prospects? | HackerNoon

It may be the world’s largest stock by market capitalization, but Apple doesn’t appear to be sitting still as tariffs threaten the tech giant’s bottom line. Can a major investment in boosting its US manufacturing capabilities grow its long-term attractiveness to investors? Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) intends to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the coming four years, starting with a new advanced manufacturing factory based in Texas. Crucially, the firm expects to

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Could Elon Musk’s DOGE Become a Driver for Growth Throughout Wall Street? | HackerNoon

When Donald Trump won a resounding US Presidential election victory on November 5, 2024, there was much speculation over the role that Elon Musk would play in the next Trump administration. Now, as the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gets into gear, it appears that Musk is taking a leading role in an unprecedented overhaul of government agencies. Musk has a significant influence on the United States. Not only is he the world’s

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AI-Driven Scientific Simulations for Cities and Industry: Startups of The Year 2024 Nominee, SimZero | HackerNoon

Hey Hackers, SimZero has been nominated in HackerNoon’s annual Startups of The Year awards in Research, Machine Learning and AR/VR. Here’s why we deserve your vote: Meet SimZero We are a deep tech startup that fuses AI, physics, and computational methods to create a unified solution that allows industrial virtual models to replicate reality in real time. With the ability to easily add scientific future event predictions or conduct high-resolution virtual experiments, we empower companies

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$RNT: The Token For Real Estate Tokenization | HackerNoon

CORAL GABLES, Florida, February 26th, 2025/Chainwire/–Reental’s RNT token is revolutionizing the future of real estate investment through blockchain technology. Reental, a leading Spanish proptech company specializing in real estate tokenization, has successfully launched RNT, a revolutionary utility token designed to enhance investment opportunities and transform the global real estate market. With a thriving community of over 21,877 investors from 90 countries, Reental is making real estate investment more accessible, transparent, and profitable through blockchain innovation.

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Jupiter’s Moon Io Keeps Leaking, and Scientists Are Watching | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract Introduction 1.1. Io as the main source of mass for the magnetosphere 1.2. Stability and variability of the Io torus system 1.3. Hypothesized volcanic mass supply events 1.4. Objective of this review Review of the relevant components of the Io-Jupiter system 2.1. Volcanic activity: hot spots and plumes 2.2 Io’s bound atmosphere 2.3 Exosphere and atmospheric escape 2.4 Electrodynamic interaction, plasma-neutral collisions, and the related atmospheric loss processes 2.5. Neutrals from

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