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OAuth from First Principles (14 minute read)
This article presents an informal explanation of the OAuth flow. Skipping over a lot of the nitty-gritty details, it details the problems that OAuth solves by looking at various potential security flaws. Resources for a deeper dive into the topic are available.
Sep 06 | AI
Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes long (5 minute read)
Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language model with enhanced visual understanding, video comprehension, and multilingual text-image processing. Qwen2-VL shows superior performance against models like Meta's Llama 3.1 and OpenAI's GPT-4o and supports various applications, including real-time video analysis and tech support. The models, available in three sizes (7B, 2B, and soon 72B), are open-source under Apache 2.0 for the smaller variants.
Sep 06 | Webdev
OAuth from First Principles (10 minute read)
OAuth 2.0 authorization with PKCE is a standard way for third-party apps to authenticate users on websites. This article starts with a basic example of a user sharing their credentials with an app, then progressively introduces security flaws and their corresponding solutions. It breaks down each attack, explaining how it works and how the OAuth flow is improved to prevent it.
Sep 06 | Product
The unique challenges of FinTech product management (7 minute read)
Trust is a FinTech company's most crucial asset, as customers rely on these companies to protect their money and data. Without it, user churn is inevitable, making trust the lifeblood of FinTech. As a product manager, your role is to ensure security, reliability, and compliance to build and sustain that trust.