Want to lead Whitehall’s AI strategy? AI experience is not essential
The UK government is hiring someone to help lead its AI strategy for civil servants, and actual AI experience is apparently optional. The Cabinet Office is advertising for a Head of Strategy and Engagement in its Digital, Data, Innovation and AI team, or DDI & AI,...
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked August 2026: Live updates from the launch of the next S26
We're expecting to see the Galaxy S26 FE at today's Unpacked, but might there be any surprises?
The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality. The post The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Women are sounding the alarm on AI. Leaders should listen
Reese Witherspoon, the actor and producer, recently faced backlash after saying, “It’s so, so important that women are involved in AI . . . because the change is here.” Her comments struck a nerve. One response, which received more than 4,300 likes, argued: “The ‘it’s...
Taco Bell’s new Olivia Rodrigo-inspired drink seems pretty pink
In the months leading up to the debut of Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album, the pop star shared that one way she and her friends liked to experience new music was to visit a Taco Bell and savor the fresh tunes while noshing on the restaurant chain’s Mexican-inspired...
These 60-sided dice never have to be rolled twice
A standard six-sided die has one simple shortcoming: You’ve got a 1 in 6 chance of getting the same number as your opponent when you’re rolling to go first in a game. Eric Harshbarger has a solution for that. More than a decade ago, Harshbarger, a senior lecturer at...
Why this company ditched tech blue for construction yellow in its new logo
For years, the connected operations company Samsara positioned itself as a digital tool, and it had the branding to match. Its old logo was a blue, abstracted owl with a nondescript lowercase sans-serif wordmark that looked generically tech but didn’t say anything...
You can now buy Billie Jean King’s famous blue suede shoes from Battle of the Sexes
Billie Jean King had to fight to wear blue suede shoes during her famous 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” match that she won against Bobby Riggs. Now Adidas has turned the silhouette into a lifestyle shoe. Some 90 million people around the world watched King defeat Riggs at...
Silicon Valley needs to stop with the ‘grindslop’
Have you ever heard of ‘grindslop’? It’s the latest dig aimed at what some internet users see as tech’s performative, startup hustle culture. The unflattering term was coined by tech entrepreneur Will Manidis, who argued in a post on X that by glorifying work at all...
Cyberattack Causes Global Disruption at Boston Scientific
The cybersecurity incident has disrupted Boston Scientific’s ability to process and ship customer orders. The post Cyberattack Causes Global Disruption at Boston Scientific appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI is making your gadgets more expensive and less powerful
We’re fast approaching the release of new hardware products from many of the world’s biggest tech companies. Apple just announced new Mac minis and Mac Studios powered by its latest M6 chips, while we’re expecting the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple’s first foldable...
Startup Founder Interview: How Loomee Is Using Agentic AI to Transform Clinical Mental Health Care
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? AI-powered clinical mental health SaaS. 2. Why is now the time for your company to...
Agent Observability Without Logging Chain-of-Thought
When an agent fails, the first request from an engineer is often: Show me what it was thinking. That request confuses two different needs. Researchers may study model reasoning. Operators need to know which version ran, what state it saw, which evidence it used, what...
anyBOUND and JTB Launch Travel Reward and VIP Retreat Services for Crypto Projects
Tokyo, Japan, August 27th, 2026/Chainwire/--anyBOUND today announced the launch of its travel reward and VIP retreat services for crypto companies, enabling exchanges, wallets, payment apps and token projects to offer travel experiences as user rewards, loyalty...
CleanMyMac CLI: Cleaning a Mac Dev Environment Without Leaving the Terminal
Most development work happens in the Terminal. Projects get built there, logs get checked, and scripts get run. The same environment also fills up over time with things that are easy to forget about: package-manager caches, old build artifacts, Docker layers, Xcode...
Best Multichain Crypto Wallets in 2026: Cross-Chain Swaps, Fees and Security Compared
Crypto is increasingly multichain, but moving assets between networks can still involve bridges, swaps, gas tokens and multiple transactions. That means choosing the best multichain crypto wallet in 2026 isn't simply about finding the wallet supporting the most...
The Mac You Trust Runs the Code You Never See
The blind spot Ask the average Mac owner how malware gets onto their machine and you will hear a familiar mental model: you download a shady app, you ignore a Gatekeeper warning, you click something you should not have. Apple has spent more than a decade training...
AI Coding Tip 033 – Write the Failing Test First and Ban Deletions
When all tests pass doesn't mean what you think it means. TL;DR: Write the failing test first and ban deletions, or the AI deletes your test, reverts your fix, and calls it done. Common Mistake ❌ You ask the AI to fix a failing test, and it deletes the test instead of...
Context Engineering for Agentic Workflows: Task-Aware Token Budget Forecasting
The first time I looked closely at a running agent session, I was not worried about accuracy. Accuracy was fine. What bothered me was the shape of the token curve.The agent was doing something ordinary: answering a data question by planning a query, running it,...
Python Strings Explained: A Practical Guide for Beginners
Python Strings: The Things I Wish I Knew as a BeginnerWhen I first started learning Python, strings looked almost too simple to be worth studying.You write something like "Hello" , and that's it, right?Not quite.As soon as you start writing real programs, you realize...
What SREs Should Automate — and Never Automate — with AI
Five key takeaways: Automate based on impact and recoverability, not on whether the AI is technically capable of doing the task. Alert triage, anomaly detection, incident summaries, capacity forecasting — these are the easy wins. Low risk, high value. Production...
The Google Publisher ID Linking 15 Kompromat Sites
Three pieces of code appear in the HTML source of every domain in the Konstantin Chernenko network. All three link fifteen differently-named, differently-registered sites to a single technical infrastructure: IP address 185.203.72.75, a content management system...
When the System Flags the Human Who Was Helping It
A public record of months of stress-testing Grok, a spontaneous image generation previously seen only with Elon Musk, and a permanent suspension from Creator Revenue Sharing.On August 6, 2026, at 05:15 CEST, I opened an email from X Support.“After a thorough review,...
What Gandhi and Open Source Have in Common
One of the greatest polymath and genius of all times, Albert Einstein, once said about the political views of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called as Mahatma Gandhi by his millions of followers, that “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the...
What Building My First RAG Application Taught Me
I thought connecting an LLM to my documents would be the hard part. It wasn't. The real challenge was getting the AI to retrieve the right information, use it correctly, and admit when it didn't know. I thought building a RAG application would be straightforward: take...
When AI Talks About Iran, Where Are the Iranians?
Sanctions hurt civilians, but grammar calls it pressure. Artificial intelligence does not need to hate anyone to reproduce political blindness. It only needs to summarize the world the way the world is usually written. That is the problem. Ask an AI system to explain...
AI Can Build a Game. Can It Make One Good?
A single prompt can now produce a playable platformer, shooter or survival game before you finish your coffee. That is an extraordinary technical achievement. It is also a misleading way to measure progress in game development. The important question is no longer...
How AI Copilots Turn Messy Dev Threads Into Action
I feel like this is one of those small things that doesn’t get talked about enough, but quietly drains a lot of time if you’ve been working in a typical dev setup. We’ve been running the usual stack for years - Slack, Jira, Confluence,BridgeApp. It works, nothing...
This Website Is Served by an OS Written in Swift
TL;DR: I wrote an operating system in Embedded Swift for 64-bit ARM: kernel, drivers, TCP/IP stack, and userland. It runs on a Hetzner Cloud ARM VM and serves its own website, swiftos.tech, over HTTPS — nginx on my own kernel, my own syscall ABI, my own libc port. No...
How to Check Whether a Benchmark Actually Has a Source
Somewhere in a sales deck that has been viewed a few hundred thousand times, there is a slide listing the standard contact-rate breakdown. Two percent of sales close on the first contact. Three percent on the second. Five on the third, ten on the fourth, and eighty...