One year ago, exactly like this moment, I was also standing on the stage. However, the red lights on the national television channel stage were much harder than it looks on television. I was there, a high school student participating in Chungden, one of the most competitive debate shows in Vietnam.The giant countdown clock was right in front of me, ticking one by one. The judges were staring. My opponent had just finished a brutal rebuttal from the previous speech.And it was my turn. In that moment, I didn' ...

$BTC'S FIRST-EVER MEMORY BUGBitcoin developers disclosed CVE-2024-52911 on Tuesday, a high-severity bug in the network's main node software that let miners crash other people's nodes or potentially execute code on them remotely.The use-after-free vulnerability in the script validation engine affected versions 0.14.1 through 28.4. Developer Niklas Gögge called it the first memory safety issue ever disclosed in the project's history.Cory Fields of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative privately reported the bug ...