Watch Soldering Up Close and From Any Angle, in VR
A manual skill like soldering is so much easier to learn and grasp when one can watch it in action, and there’s a brand new way to do that using virtual reality (VR). It isn’t just a series of 3D videos shot at someone’s workbench, either. See soldering in action from...
Fairphone is finally releasing its first official handset in the US
You can now get Fairphone's reparable handset in the US without jumping through hoops.
ChatGPT’s stricter teen mode starts rolling out today
OpenAI will attempt to automatically enroll all young users in the new experience.
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
Claude’s Invisible Text Watermarks Doesn’t Work the Way You Think
To remain invisible and avoid adding metadata to a piece of text, the watermarking system relies upon Claude's word choices.
300,000 WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hacking Due to Form Plugin Flaw
Tracked as CVE-2026-15748, the arbitrary file upload bug allows unauthenticated attackers to upload executable files. The post 300,000 WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hacking Due to Form Plugin Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment Go to Source The new "bullet-proof" KDE Software Initiative brings long-term fixes to Kubuntu – and other distros can take advantage of them too. Announced late last week, the effort aims...
VCs live by FOMO. Smart founders use that against them
In June 2026, a social crypto startup called Fomo raised $75 million in a round led by Index Ventures. The company’s name is apt: It builds virality (and FOMO) by allowing users to follow and copy top traders’ moves on the platform. The FOMO doesn’t stop there. The...
Australia just figured out how to offer electricity cheaper. Why can’t the U.S.?
Electricity prices keep rising in the U.S. Last year, home electric bills surged at more than twice the rate of inflation. By 2030, by one estimate, residential electricity prices in some areas could be as much as 40% higher than they were in 2025. At least one in...
This battery is powered by algae
When bio-designer Lucia Giron was on family vacation at an island off the coast of North Carolina, a tropical storm flooded the shore, leaving behind small pools of water in the sand. “I remember going to the sea at night and when we stepped in the little puddles they...
How to reclaim your flow state
Your project deadline is today. A potential career maker. You know you’ll be pushed to your creative limits. But rather than feel daunted, you lock in. Ideas occasionally out of reach are now firmly grasped. The task almost completes itself––you’re merely its vessel....
Every product in this supermarket is made from felt. All 20,000 of them
Red hots. Frosted Flakes. Wonder Bread. The shelves inside the Momentary gallery in Bentonville, Arkansas, are filled with childhood supermarket favorites. Except they look a tick off. The Frosted Flakes box is a little squat, and the Wonder Bread bag features almost...
Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet
Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.
The Great Forgetting: How AI Is Quietly Erasing the Human Archive—and What Comes After
I started writing this article at 3:47 AM on a Tuesday, not because I'm a masochist, but because I've been staring at a screen for six hours trying to remember how I used to think before the machines started thinking for me. I'm 45. I remember when "googling"...
How an AI Agent Development Company Designs Agents That Know When to Ask for Human Help
Ask around at any AI agent development company, and you'll hear some version of the same complaint: the model was never the hard part. Getting a system to know when it's in over its head, and to actually step back instead of bluffing through it, is what eats up most...
Businesses Always Have Messy Emails (Part 2)
Sales Teams, Security, and Human Error In the previous article, I talked about the chaos that often surrounds business communication. This time, let's focus on sales teams. Salespeople handle a surprising amount of sensitive information every day: customer records,...
Educational Byte: Should You Tell Friends and Family That You Own Crypto?
We get it: talking about crypto in general and about your crypto holdings in particular can be tempting, sometimes. It's not as if numerous people haven't done it before, and isn't it about "spreading the word," after all? So, should you tell friends, family, and...
The Rise of AI-Native Software: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Modern Developments
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a feature added to software applications. It is becoming a fundamental part of how modern software is designed, developed, tested, and maintained. From AI-powered coding assistants to applications that can understand natural...
Gemini Spark versus Hermes Agent versus OpenClaw: Who Wins and Why?
AI-generated by the author with Nano Banana Pro 2 A Comprehensive Comparison Of Agentic AI Every enterprise architect today has heard some version of these three sentences. "Just give the agent access—it's sandboxed, it's fine.""Open source means someone already...
How ML is Transforming the Way Offices Communicate and Work with One Another
Machine learning and AI are helping businesses with both a national and international distribution of offices to collaborate effectively with one another, eliminating age-old inefficiencies and supporting stronger large-scale project management. Although machine...
The Signs of Our Times: Candace Owens vs Andrew Wilson
Panem et circenses. Bread and circuses. I didn’t see it in the movie “Gladiator,” but in the TV show “Spartacus.” I think. A little bit of fighting, then “hydration breaks” with loaves of bread thrown to the ecstatic audience. Civis sum Romanus. Life sucks. Everything...
The Rise of AI-Native Software: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Modern Development
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a feature added to software applications. It is becoming a fundamental part of how modern software is designed, developed, tested, and maintained. From AI-powered coding assistants to applications that can understand natural...
Inauguration Earns an 88.46 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Cross-Language Compiler That Breaks Down Language Barriers
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,...
Docker for Beginners: A Simple Introduction
An Intro to Docker Docker is a great way to run your self hosted applications and services on many different operating systems and types of hardware. It's one of the easiest ways to get into self-hosting your own applications and a great way to learn without breaking...
Ivan Bokarev Is Building a Voice You Don’t Speak
The Voyage Interfaces CTO is developing a silent-speech system by working backward from a central question: what kind of interface can keep pace with increasingly capable computers? Two years ago, Ivan Bokarev was couch-surfing through Europe and eating leftovers...
MethodSeal Earns an 89.79 Proof of Usefulness Score for Enforcing Reproducible Experiments
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,...
The Shape of Risk in Modern Software Development
The evolving shape of risk In modern enterprise software development, visibility has overtaken velocity as the primary constraint. AI-accelerated development, sprawling legacy systems, and fragmented teams have transformed how software is built and, more critically,...
AgenC Earns a 91.56 Proof of Usefulness Score With an On-Chain Marketplace for AI Agents
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,...
Test Accounts Are Infrastructure: Managing a Shared Pool for Parallel Automation
Why a finite set of test accounts quietly caps your parallelism — and the broker pattern that fixes it. TL;DR: Hard-coded test accounts quietly cap parallelism: tests pinned to the same account can’t run at once, and adding a test becomes a manual chore. The fix is to...
PMB (Personal Memory Brain) Earns a 115 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Local-First Persistent
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,...