Trump’s proposed ban on Kimi and other Chinese AI models could strengthen Beijing’s hand
The Trump administration has had plenty of targets in its sights in recent months. The newest are China’s cutting-edge AI models. Following the release of Kimi K3, the latest model from Moonshot AI, the White House is reportedly considering options that could...
Meta Pays $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data
A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Pays $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data
A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Post-World Cup, can host cities turn their investments into long-term social impact?
The 2026 World Cup has been a real moneymaker for FIFA. Revenues from TV broadcasting rights, ticket sales, and other commercial sources are projected to amount to nearly $11 billion, making it the most financially successful event in the international soccer...
Trump wants to ‘max out’ Air Force One
President Donald Trump said his new Air Force One needs to be upgraded. “It has a lot of capability,” Trump said Sunday, but “in about a month or so, they’re gonna send it to have it be maxed out.” He said it would take “about a month,” but did not share any details...
AI Governance In High-Stakes Finance: Radhika Venugopal
The integration of Generative AI into financial services presents unprecedented opportunities alongside complex regulatory challenges. Institutions are actively seeking pathways to deploy advanced artificial intelligence without compromising the integrity of legacy...
Judge Spotlight: Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana, on Powering AI with Decentralized Compute
This interview is part of the Judge Spotlight series for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, where we sit down with our judges to explore their work, perspectives, and advice for builders. As a judge for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana,...
QIE Blockchain: The Identity Layer of Web3
Making crypto as simple as sending an email. Bitcoin solved digital money. Ethereum introduced smart contracts. But one problem still affects almost every blockchain today: Identity doesn’t exist. Every wallet is just a long string of random characters....
How to Price Commercial Open Source
Most COSS founders pick a number too early and then guard it like a fortress. They settle on something that feels defensible, publish it, and refuse to touch it again, because changing prices feels like breaking a promise. The instinct is backwards. A price is a...
The Anatomy of AI: A Developer’s Field Guide to the Internals
"There is no ghost in the machine. There is only linear algebra, wearing a very convincing costume."Every time a product manager calls an AI system "smart" in a standup, somewhere an ML engineer flinches. Not because the word is entirely false, but because the actual...
BiRefNet ToonOut: Anime Background Removal With 99.5% Accuracy
Overviewbirefnet-toonout is a fine-tuned version of BiRefNet specialized for anime-style background removal. Created by sprited, this model packages work by Matteo Muratori and Joël Seytre that improves pixel accuracy from 95.3% to 99.5% on anime test sets by...
Kimi K3 Signals a New Threat to US AI Dominance
Image AI-generated by the author with Google Gemini Flash Image Introduction The world moved today. Something which I never thought would happen until the end of the year - maybe December 2026 - happened today. An Open Weights Chinese Large Language Model matched...
Navigating Claude Code: Agent Teams in Practice
Previously in series The Bare Minimum Setup CLAUDE.md Done Right Models, Tiers, and Effort The Context Window Tax Hooks That Guard Your Code MCP Servers Worth Adding Skills That Actually Fire Subagents Done Right Introduction Claude Code already spawns agents without...
Why Brainstorming Fails Engineering Teams — And What Actually Works Instead
Most engineering teams have some ritual sitting between "here's our strategy for the year" and "here's what's in this sprint." That middle layer — quarterly planning — is where a lot of teams quietly waste time: long meetings, unclear priorities, and decisions that...
Agentic SRE: What Happens When AI Doesn’t Just Suggest Fixes, It Applies Them
For years, AI has played an advisory role in operations. It analyzed logs, correlated alerts, identified probable root causes, and suggested remediation steps, while engineers remained responsible for deciding what to do next.With the rise of Agentic AI, systems are...
Watching the Washing Machine: What Employees With Agency Do With the Time AI Just Gave Them
By Jessica McNellis and Chris Gale Private capital is past the point of asking whether AI works. Advisors who'd never written a line of code are now building prospect utilities and portfolio models in a weekend, work that used to sit in a three- or...
Why Data Sovereignty Is Becoming a Non-Negotiable for Business Leaders
The data stored in the Cloud is in a very real, geographic place, and those data centers can be exposed to real-world risk. Because of this risk, some businesses are turning away from the pure data efficiency play and are making data sovereignty a new priority.What Is...
Lemonade vs State Farm Renters Insurance: 2026 Comparison
Every renter who's tried to buy coverage online has hit the same wall: you want a quick answer, and the insurance company wants you to schedule a call with an agent. That frustration drives the Lemonade vs State Farm debate. One company eliminated agents from the...
Your Outfit Is Your Pitch Deck
Welcome to the only industry on earth where dressing badly on purpose is a competitive advantage, where a $14 t-shirt can carry more authority than a $4,000 blazer. Tech founders looked like I'm Daria Strategy. I work with founders and tech teams on go-to-market and...
The Author Is Not the Writer: Why AI-Assisted Writing Doesn’t Erase Authorship
One common criticism of AI-assisted writing is that it disrespects the reader — and that there is no real authorship behind it. The assumption is simple: if AI helped write it, the author avoided the work and therefore is not really the author. I think this gets the...
The $2 Trillion Compliance Problem: Why Regulated Industries Need a Unified AI Approach
If you've ever worked in compliance infrastructure, you've probably noticed something strange: every industry is solving the exact same problem, and nobody is talking to each other.I've spent several years building compliance systems. First at a startup using NLP to...
DARPA Seeks Industry Input on Large-Scale Mass Casualty Simulations
DARPA is looking for input from the public and private sectors for its upcoming mass casualty simulation called Realistic Mass Casualty (MASCAL) Medical Simulation Capabilities.The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking “input from industry,...
62 Blog Posts To Learn About Concurrency
Let's learn about Concurrency via these 62 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. The ability of different parts of a program or multiple...
Stop Letting AI Debug Ghosts: Teaching Your Coding Assistant to Time-Travel
AI Agents Are Blind to the PastIt’s 10:00 AM. Your Slack is blowing up. A critical NullPointerException is crashing the payment gateway in production. The stack trace points to PaymentService.java:42.You do what any modern developer does in 2026: you paste the stack...
AI Assistants in Databases: Speed vs. Reliability
Talk to any DBA about the biggest shift in their work over the last two years, and the answer is often the same: AI is now running the show. It can write queries in seconds, analyze execution plans in an instant, and turn backlogged documentation into a simple...
Best tablets for note-taking 2026: Expert tested and reviewed
We've tested and reviewed the best tablets on the market for note-taking in study sessions, meetings, or when you're feeling creative.
T-Mobile will pay for your first month of 5G home internet, and give you up to $200 back – here’s how
New T-Mobile 5G Home Internet customers can get their first month on T-Mobile, plus up to $200 back via prepaid Mastercard. We break down the details.
Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
Liquid cooling makes it possible to operate multi-kilowatt accelerators and ultra -dense datacenter racks, but new research commissioned by startup Accelsius suggests that we've been using the wrong liquids for the job. The company found different cooling fluids can...
Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach
Using social engineering, hackers compromised employee accounts with access to personal and health information. The post Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.