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Understanding CORS: A Crucial Security Feature for Your React Applications

Understanding CORS: A Crucial Security Feature for Your React Applications

In web development, security is paramount, especially when dealing with sensitive user data. One critical security mechanism is Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). This feature, implemented by web browsers, restricts web pages from making requests to a different domain than the one that served the original page. Understanding and correctly implementing CORS is essential for any developer working with React applications. Let's dive into what CORS is, why it's important, and how you can configure it for your React projects. What is CORS? CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. It's a security feature designed to protect users by preventing unauthorized cross-origin…
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RAG Is All The Rage — And The Machine Is Getting More Complex

RAG Is All The Rage — And The Machine Is Getting More Complex

In our previous blog post on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), we explained the motivation for implementing a RAG architecture and presented a very basic example architecture for retrieving enterprise knowledge. But the solution doesn’t stop there; in these blog post, we’ll describe advanced RAG architectures for enterprise knowledge applications. In the previous post, we showed how a RAG-powered application could handle some simple HR questions. Using that simple architecture, if a user were to prompt the system with a more complex question (e.g., “How many sick days do I have per year?”), the system will only be able to respond with…
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How humanity transformed its fate

How humanity transformed its fate

Sign up for Roots of Progress Substack The history of technology and the philosophy of progress Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. The following is Chapter 2 from the book The Techno-Humanist Manifesto by Jason Crawford, Founder of the Roots of Progress Institute. The entirety of the book will be published on Freethink, one week at a time. For more from Jason, subscribe to his Substack above.Chapter 2, Section 1: Surrender of the GodsSo far we have told the story of progress as one of humanity climbing out of poverty, isolation, disease and death into abundance, connectedness, health and safety. More…
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Lego’s first Fortnite sets are here

Lego’s first Fortnite sets are here

Lego just announced its first sets inspired by the gaming phenomenon Fortnite. These kits draw from iconic characters and vehicles from both the original game and the brick-based spinoff Lego Fortnite, like an ouroboros of corporate synergy.The baddest of the bunch looks to be the 954-piece Battle Bus kit, which costs $100. This is a brick-based replica of the iconic hot-air balloon on wheels, complete with a removable roof and characters like Meowscles, Raven and Cuddle Team Leader, among others. LegoThe 1,414-piece Peely Bone set looks to appeal to collectors more than kids. It builds into a giant version of…
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Why aren’t we automatically registered to vote? With this program, we could be

Why aren’t we automatically registered to vote? With this program, we could be

In its first year, SecureAVR added over 250,000 new voters to the state of Oregon. How many could it add to the entire country? The process is simple – when attending appointments at the DMV, eligible citizens are automatically registered; no additional time, forms, or conversations are necessary. If uninterested, users can choose to opt out, but otherwise, registration is seamless. This way, one of the hardest parts of voting is automatically completed, leading to a more secure system, and even more participating citizens.  Also dubbed the “Motor Voter of the 21st Century,” Secure AVR streamlines voter registration, making it effortless…
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Intel has finally figured out its long-standing desktop CPU instability issues

Intel has finally figured out its long-standing desktop CPU instability issues

The first reports of instability issues with the 13th-gen Intel desktop CPUs started popping up in late 2022, mere months after the models came out. Those issues persisted, and over time, users reported dealing with unexpected and sudden crashes on PCs equipped with the company's 14th-gen CPUs, as well. Now, Intel has announced that it finally found the reason why its 13th and 14th-gen desktop processors have been causing crashes and giving out on users, and it promises to roll out a fix by next month.In its announcement, Intel said that based on extensive analysis of the processors that had…
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Lifetimes in Rust explained

Lifetimes in Rust explained

I want to discuss a fundamental concept you must grasp to master the Rust programming language: “Lifetimes.” Usually, when we learn about a programming language, we reference other languages, like “it works like in JavaScript,” “it’s similar to Python,” and so on. We can’t make this analogy in this case because “Lifetimes” are peculiar to the Rust programming language. Lifetimes in Rust ensure that references are valid as long as they are used, preventing common bugs like dangling pointers and use-after-free errors. This article explores lifetimes, their significance, and how to work with them through examples. If you prefer a…
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From PC Giant To AI Innovator: It’s Time To Refresh Your Perception Of Lenovo

From PC Giant To AI Innovator: It’s Time To Refresh Your Perception Of Lenovo

Lenovo was first established in 1984 with only 11 entrepreneurs. Now hitting its 40-year anniversary, Lenovo has become a multinational corporation with $62 billion in revenue and 77,000 employees worldwide, ranking at 217 in the Fortune Global 500. In 2014, Lenovo began diversifying its business by acquiring Motorola Mobility and IBM’s x86 server division. Despite these significant expansions, many enterprise decision-makers around the world still primarily view Lenovo as the leading consumer PC manufacturer. Last week, I attended Lenovo’s first APAC analyst briefing in Shanghai. Over two days of insightful sessions, I observed how Lenovo’s strategic investments in AI-powered solutions…
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The Morning After: Condé Nast is the latest media company to accuse AI search engine Perplexity of plagiarism

The Morning After: Condé Nast is the latest media company to accuse AI search engine Perplexity of plagiarism

Condé Nast, the media giant that owns The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI-powered search startup Perplexity, according to The Information. The letter, sent on Monday, demanded Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated responses and accused the startup of plagiarism. It comes a month after Forbes took similar action.Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch has warned “many” media companies could face financial ruin in the time it would take for litigation against generative AI companies to conclude. Lynch has called upon Congress to take “immediate action.”— Mat SmithThe biggest stories…
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