The case for ChatGPT for seniors
On August 18, OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot with stronger safety protections, parental controls, and more age-appropriate responses. The product reflects a growing recognition that different populations may need different kinds of AI...
These Levi’s 501s aren’t just sold out everywhere. They’re a snapshot of apparel history
Levi’s just recreated one of the rarest models of its most iconic jeans, and they’re a relic of a crucial moment in garment design history. The jeans, Levi’s 1942 501s, document a short-lived period of the brand’s history around America’s entry into WWII, when...
Ikea’s new art collection is perfect for more-is-more postmodernists
For it’s new limited-edition Konstrunda collection, Ikea commissioned seven contemporary artists whose work can provide a jolt of color, abstract patterns, and irregular form to any interior design that’s overly beige, boring, or neutral. The 22-piece collection is...
The generation that is most comfortable with AI might surprise you
Well, this should come as no surprise to absolutely everyone: Americans, particularly younger generations like Gen Z, are increasingly worried about AI and its potential to take their jobs. This finding comes from a new survey from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Pew...
These 3 housing markets—including Austin—just hit ‘significantly oversupplied’ lot inventory
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. During the Pandemic Housing Boom, we saw red-hot housing demand quickly absorb much of the available slack in the housing market. Back in 2021, active...
How one startup is recovering copper from old mines that were left for dead in the 1980s
In central Arizona, about 90 miles east of Phoenix, an old open-pit copper mine sits full of water. The mine closed in the 1980s, left to accumulate rain and groundwater. These “pit lakes,” as they’re called, are monitored so that they don’t contaminate the...
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue
NASA and Katalyst Space have abandoned an ambitious attempt to boost the Swift observatory into a higher orbit and postpone its fiery return to Earth. Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft will still attempt to rendezvous with and maneuver near Swift, but plans to grapple...
Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on
Business transformation, software development, and technology implementation are among the tech job categories likely to be hit hardest by AI, according to new research from Forrester. The global IT analyst company has researched how AI will disrupt various activities...
Five Days Into Shipaton 2026: Building, Breaking, and Rethinking ROLL Beauty
Hi! I’m Ryu from AMANEKU Studio.At the time of writing this, Shipaton has been underway for five days.In my previous post, I wrote about choosing our app’s name and logo. This time, I want to show exactly how the two of us are working together—including the decisions...
Startup Founder Interview: The Boutique Advisor Connecting African Deals With Global Capital
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? Boutique investment advisory & deal structuring. 2. Why is now the time for your...
AI Founder Zirong Chi on What Makes an Idea Worth Building
As China's midyear hackathon season accelerates, the NxCode founder brings an operator's eye to She Nicest's Motherboard event - and a track record spanning AI education, product development, accelerator backing and ecosystem leadership. As 2026 moves through its...
Your Law Firm’s Biggest Risk Might Be Your AI Tools
In 2022, a lawyer working an airline liability case used an AI tool to help research and draft a brief. The citations looked right, specific case names, docket numbers, real judges' initials attached to real courts. Opposing counsel noticed something was off. When the...
Designing Agent Memory: Five Gates a Bigger Context Window Cannot Replace
Think of your agent's history as a warehouse the size of a city block. Every event goes onto a shelf: user messages, tool outputs, retrieved documents, the model's own half-formed plans. A million-token context window makes that warehouse bigger. It does not hire a...
How I Built a $5-a-Month AI Baby Monitor on Raspberry Pi
Abstract This article documents the architecture, implementation, and operational characteristics of BabyMind AI — a multi-service AI infant monitoring system deployed on Raspberry Pi 5 hardware. The system integrates computer vision (Claude Haiku Vision API), large...
How AI Startups Can Build Trust Before Users Ever Touch The Product
Most people judge an AI product before they use it. They open the homepage, scan the demo, check the pricing, and maybe click the docs. In less than a minute, they already have a feeling about the product.That feeling matters. AI tools ask for more trust than normal...
The Robotics Promise of Koenigsegg’s Dark Matter Motor
Koenigsegg's Dark Matter electric motor has one of the highest power densities ever recorded in an automotive electric motor. It delivers: -800 horsepower (600 kilowatts)-1,250 newton-meters of torque From a unit that weighs just 39 kilograms and measures about 383...
AI Did Not Escape Its Cage — Tests Reveal the Security Challenge of More Powerful Models
Headlines claiming artificial intelligence systems are “escaping” their test environments have fuelled renewed fears about machines becoming uncontrollable.However, the reality behind recent OpenAI and Anthropic tests reveals a far more serious cybersecurity...
Why You Should Stay Away From Free VPNs (and Use ApexGuard Instead)
Most people treat a free VPN as an easy way to hide an IP address and add privacy to daily browsing without another subscription. Difficulties emerge after installation, when congested servers, data caps, ads, or dropped connections interfere with ordinary internet...
Give Your Mastra Agent an iMessage Number Using Photon Spectrum
Mastra agents can now send and receive iMessages through Photon Spectrum. Install @photon-ai/chat-adapter-imessage, add one adapter to your agent config, and your agent gets a phone number with native presence in the Messages app — on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. No Mac...
AI Filmmaking Makes You a ‘One-Man Band.’ Here’s What That Feels Like
I finished a scene on Lost Garden at two in the morning, watched it back four times, and felt nothing wrong with it. The isolation that comes with AI filmmaking is not about working alone in a room. It is about losing the other person whose job was to tell you when a...
How to Fix Gradle Dependency Verification With Renovate
My current company has settled on using Gradle. It doesn't make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints. Plus, I must admit that the developers who actually implemented the build files did a pretty good job overall: they used Kotlin instead of...
The Hidden Risk in Beneficial Ownership Registers
A compromised beneficial ownership register can reveal far more than individual company records. It can expose the architecture connecting companies, trusts, foundations and the people who control them. Liechtenstein reported that hackers accessed information...
spaCy Sentencizer vs yasbd: Why 98.9% Accuracy Matters
Sentence segmentation—splitting text into individual sentences—is a foundational step in most NLP pipelines. It seems simple, but as anyone who has worked with real-world text knows, the details matter. Abbreviations like Dr., URLs, ellipsis, and complex punctuation...
Tokenomics of Quality: Switch Sonar List Issues to –Format Toon for Measured Token Savings
Your AI coding bill is, increasingly, a data-formatting problem. Every time an agent pulls your open issues, your quality gate status, or your dependency risks into its context window, it pays tokens for the shape of that data as well as the content. Most of that data...
How an AutoGPT Email Block Became an SSRF Surface
You type `smtp_server: 10.0.0.5` into a text field. AutoGPT doesn’t send an email. It reaches into the internal network and returns: `SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu`AutoGPT, a project with over 160,000 GitHub stars, lets users build autonomous workflows that browse the...
The Polygraph Problem: Why “Sounds True” Isn’t True
Aldrich Ames was not a good spy. That's the part that should keep you up at night… For nine years, from 1985 to 1994, Ames sold America's deepest, darkest secrets to the Soviet Union. He handed over the names of at least ten people secretly working for the United...
How to Stop Context Rot in Coding Agents
The first hour with a coding agent is sharp. It respects your patterns, remembers your constraints, produces code that fits. Somewhere in the second hour it starts to drift. It forgets a decision it made earlier. It contradicts itself. The suggestions get vague. By...
Inside Qwen3.6 Genesis Hermes V9
OverviewQwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-V9-GGUF is a 35-billion parameter mixture-of-experts language model created by LuffyTheFox that applies a proprietary post-training tensor repair technique called Genesis to reduce accumulated training noise and...
NASA calls off mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory
The Swift observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this year, because NASA has aborted its rescue mission.
These 2 WFH items are a splurge – but I’d highly recommend them
Eureka's Ark SD desk and the FlexiSpot C7 Morpher chair completely elevated my work-from-home experience.