Trust Issues in AI

For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back…

New Transaction-Relay Jamming Vulnerability Let Attackers Exploits Bitcoin Nodes

A newly disclosed transaction-relay jamming vulnerability has raised concerns about the security of Bitcoin nodes, particularly in the context of time-sensitive contracting protocols like the Lightning Network. This attack exploits the transaction selection, announcement, and propagation mechanisms of Bitcoin’s base-layer…