Startup Founder Interview: How Moola Is Using AI to Rethink Personal Financial Planning
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 personal financial planning. 2. Why is now the time for your company to...
Jeff Dean Just Left Google After 27 Years. Here’s What We Know About the Founding of Discovery Loop
Google's bench is deep, but some names carry weight no org chart can replace. Jeff Dean is one of them — and as of this week, he's off the roster.On August 5, 2026, Dean announced he's stepping down as Google's chief scientist to co-found Discovery Loop, a new...
How AI Coding Agents Can Accidentally Leak Your Secrets
AI coding agents prove useful in a number of ways, among them: they read everything. Your source files, configs, environment variables, and even the errors in your terminal, are all fodder for agentic action. An agent consumes this information to better understand the...
Building Buildhorn: Shipaton 2026 Week Three
I am coming towards the end of my 3rd week working on Shipaton, and with that comes another chance to pause and update you on my progress. Note: This is the 3rd post about my work towards shipping an app for the Shipaton 2026 hackathon. If you want to read from the...
Claude Code Hooks: How to Stop AI Agents From Breaking Your Code
An agent deleted someone's home folder. Again.This story is becoming all too familiar: A coding agent runs rm -rf, a tilde expands to the wrong path, and twenty years of files are gone. The agent apologizes in flawless prose. The files do not come back. When it...
To Bee or Not to Bee: What if Good Governance is About Quorum Sensing and Software Can Enhance That?
By Ralph BenkoHello, Congress? Have You Heard of Honeybee Democracy? It's what you do best. Almost as well as honeybees. Now, this capability is being programmed into software that may make you even more proficient at what you do best. Spoiler alert. It's about...
How My Scraper Went From 20 Minutes to Under 10 Without Losing a Single Review
SHA-256 hashing, bounded retries, chunked Postgres writes, and the cloud bill that forced me to treat cost as a feature. Every product team drowns in feedback the same way. A review lands on the App Store. Someone vents on Reddit. A G2 comparison goes up. A support...
Automated Process Robotics In Manufacturing: From Competitive Advantage to Necessity
By 2035, industrialized countries that lead in robotics could see factory productivity increase significantly, while the value generated by manufacturing may grow substantially. Even today, automation is changing how factories operate—and recent global crises have...
The Last Analog System: Fixing the World’s Addresses
More than 4 billion people globally live without a precise address. Two founders with no technical background set out to change that and ended up rethinking not just their product, but what it means to build a startup in the age of AI. Somewhere in a favela in Rio de...
Trust the Founder, Verify the Business: What the CaaStle Collapse Reveals About Startup Diligence
The CaaStle fraud is a reminder that venture diligence can fail when founder reputation, investor FOMO, and social proof become substitutes for independent verification. After more than 20 years operating inside venture-backed technology companies, I've learned that...
50 Blog Posts To Learn About Nestjs
Let's learn about Nestjs via these 50 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. NestJS is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient,...
Prompt Injection Is Now an RCE Primitive
Prompt injection used to be easy to dismiss as a chatbot problem. The model might reveal instructions, change tone, or produce an embarrassing answer. Important, yes. Remote code execution, no. Tool-using agents erased that boundary. Once a model can search, write...
Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China
Even though the US has relaxed its restrictions of AI chip exports to China, illegal exports are apparently still taking place.
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Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk. The post Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cannes Drew the Line on AI Films. That Same Week, 5,500 of Them Arrived in Town Anyway
Are AI-generated films banned from film festivals in 2026? Not exactly. What actually happened this year is stranger: the festival world built a second circuit instead of answering the question. Cannes shut generative AI out of its top prize. Weeks later, thousands of...
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Canonical's fondness for AI and Rust is no secret. Now it is co-funding a three-year PhD project investigating whether the former can translate large C codebases into the latter. Engineering veep Jon Seager announced the investment on Ubuntu's Discourse forum. The PhD...
Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days
The attack caused real-world operational disruption and raised concerns about the resilience of Britain’s distributed energy infrastructure and the potential for repeatable attacks. The post Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days appeared first on...
TikTok Reaches $400 Million Settlement With US Justice Department Over Children’s Privacy
TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent decree against its predecessor company, Musical.ly. The post TikTok Reaches $400 Million Settlement With US Justice Department Over Children’s Privacy appeared...
Architects are sitting on a data gold mine, and Anthropic and other frontier AI labs can’t get to it
Architecture may be one of AI’s hardest pursuits. Unlike coding or writing, the data that could be used to train an architecture AI model is not widely available (or stealable) online. Rather, it’s stored away in the servers and physical filing cabinets of individual...
AOC is freezing her eggs. Her choice can have a huge, positive impact for working women
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is freezing her eggs, and she’s doing it in public. On Instagram, she filmed herself giving the first hormone injection, told her followers not to squirm, and answered the questions they were asking. Why? How much? How long does it take? Most...
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sunday cancelled a planned Monday moonshot launch. The mission plan for Chang'e 7 calls for it to send a lander to a region near the Moon’s South Pole, in a location thought likely to contain ice in deep craters. The lander...
Software should work, and talking about it needn’t be boring
OPINION DVD is one of those technologies that dominated for barely a generation yet left a permanent cultural mark. It made high-quality video cheap enough for mass distribution, popularized the TV series boxed set, and encouraged its gluttonous consequence: binge...
UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors. The vast majority of the targets are located...
UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors. The vast majority of the targets are located...
The Casio F-91W As A Contactless Payment Device.
The Casio F-91W digital watch is perhaps one of the most successful pieces of consumer electronics ever made, having quietly supplied the essential function of an inexpensive and accurate LCD digital timepiece for many decades. As a result it has a huge following, and...
Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Access to More Defenders, Unveils $35M Open Source Fund
Claude Security, currently in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, now runs codebase scans on Mythos 5. The post Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Access to More Defenders, Unveils $35M Open Source Fund appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
WHO, ME? Welcome to another installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which The Register opens the working week with your tales of IT woe. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Pascal," who once worked for a company that had just acquired its...
Neo-Cyclostyle: Automatic Document Copying Devices in 1890
Using the special pens to remove the wax coating on the template. (Credit: Old Typerwriters and Calculators, YouTube) Document duplication has been a highly desirable feature, long before medieval monks slaved over yet another illuminated manuscript by flickering...
How to nurture a great company culture as you scale up
How to nurture a great company culture as you scale up Go to Source The larger your business grows, the more difficult it is to maintain a highly engaged culture where employees are excited about the work they do and are committed to...