Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

More businesses are transitioning from API-based software to autonomous AI agents in an effort to remain competitive, but doing so requires significant planning to mitigate problems like hallucinations and their consequences. Until recently, most businesses relied on...

AI models continue to improve, but according to Rob May, those improvements yield diminishing returns relative to what the systems they support can provide. Evaluating the usefulness of various AI models to inform which ones to adopt served as the foundation of the...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

With access to Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, and more, RovoBlast shows how a single link turns AI permissions into a low-friction path for data exposure. Varonis Threat Labs uncovered a vulnerability in Rovo, Atlassian's enterprise AI...

Introduction: 15 gigabytes is not enoughNot having all the projects and assignments I did in college neatly organized in a single directory is one of my biggest regrets as someone who spends most of his life in front of a computer. Whether it was because of the...

Here's an uncomfortable fact about voice agents: the demo always works. You talk to it in a quiet room, it answers cleanly, everyone nods. Then it ships, a caller rattles off a confirmation code from a parking garage, and the agent writes down the wrong number and...

Imagine Nigeria experiences one of the worst network outages in its history. Mobile networks are down, internet providers have gone silent and every financial institution in the country is effectively disconnected. Bank transfers don't work. Fintech apps don't work....

The AI has decided that you’re the bottleneck.Every agent demo celebrates the same thing: the absence of a person. The agent books the flight, refactors the codebase, migrates the database — unattended, end to end, while you get coffee. “Human-in-the-loop” has become...

After finishing my first book and successfully publishing it through Amazon KDP, I started thinking about translating it into other languages. English may be the largest book market in the world, but it is also one of the most crowded. There are already plenty of...

The perfect prompt doesn't instruct the model on what it already knows how to do. TL;DR: Reasoning models already verify and pace themselves, so drop those prompts and set real effort, scope, length, autonomy. Common Mistake ❌ You still write prompts for a model that...

CERT.PL said this appears to be the first instance of a private APN being used as an attack vector. The post Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

REST API gives engineering teams on-demand virtual numbers across more than 500 platforms, cutting the manual work of testing one-time-password flowsSMSFAST, an online service that provides temporary virtual phone numbers for receiving SMS verification codes, has...

There’s a shift happening in the economics of creativity. And if you read it as a story about technology, you’ll miss the point entirely. It’s really a story about value. As artificial intelligence embeds itself into the production pipelines of advertising agencies,...

The critical-severity flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A snapshot of Britain's datacenter estate puts nearly 40 percent of its facilities in London, along with about two-thirds of its estimated colocation capacity, although development is spreading beyond the capital. The analysis counts 555 UK server farms, matching...

Using social engineering, a threat actor accessed the computers of three employees and exfiltrated data from them. The post Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The most sobering observation in tech is not how much AI is taking on the appearance of the human mind. It's how much the human mind increasingly resembles Windows – not in functionality, although we all know that person, but in the way it crufts up and loses...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro ("solidity-pro") that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below -...

Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided solid we call a hexagon, which is indisputably the bestagon. Don’t take it up with us–...

Creative work is on the rise. According to recent projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, creative and multimedia design roles are expected to grow by 12% over the next six years—one of the biggest increases ever for those who hold degrees in fine arts. ...