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Every SHA-256 story we've curated in Bowl of Data, newest issue first — part of our weekly digest across AI, security, blockchain, and engineering.
Week 38 · 2026
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Why an old caching trick is your secret to lower LLM costs
The article outlines a technical framework for reducing LLM costs through tiered response caching. It details how to implement exact-match and semantic-match strategies to avoid redundant model inferences.
Week 32 · 2026
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Bitcoiners turn to dice throws as self-custody setups are re-evaluated
A significant vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets' firmware led to a massive reduction in entropy, enabling attackers to steal over $100 million in Bitcoin. The flaw has prompted the cryptocurrency community to move away from trusting hardware-based random number generators in favor of auditable, physical entropy methods like dice rolling.
Week 19 · 2026
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Bleeding Llama: Critical Unauthenticated Memory Leak in Ollama (CVE-2026–7482)
A critical vulnerability in Ollama allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds heap read via malicious GGUF files. This exploit can expose sensitive information like user messages and system prompts by leaking them into newly created model files.
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