After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline not too long ago, it was only a matter of time before the demise of even the remaining paid services, such as the Pokémon Bank which Nintendo has now...

In an effort to "watermark" text that Claude has generated and comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic unveiled a plan on Friday to modify its bots' choice of words in a way that would be detectable as AI. Traditional watermarks are patterns or images overlaid on...

DeepSeek has piqued the interest of the developer community by releasing an early version of its open source agent harness. This happens as harnesses have become increasingly important to those working with machine learning models. "Powered by the Cordis...

Some 1.6 million unique email addresses tied to RingCentral have been leaked online, alongside names, physical addresses, and phone numbers, according to Have I Been Pwned. RingCentral disclosed the breach on July 28 and said “it was the target of a sophisticated...

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Doing anything on a frozen lake can carries some amount of risk. Nevertheless, every year events ranging from car racing to ice skating are held on them. As such, proper safety precautions are needed, the most important of which is ensuring the ice is thick enough to...

PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.

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Let's learn about Javascript via these 500 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. "Not a real programming language" since 1995. 1. How it...

Prefill/decode disaggregation has the elegance of a clean architecture diagram. Prompt processing is compute-heavy. Token generation is memory-bandwidth-heavy. Put them on separate GPU pools, scale each phase independently, and stop them from interfering with each...

I built a RAG tool over my own writing. Here's what I learned.A note: I built this with Claude Code doing the implementation, directed by me. Worth being explicit about that, since it's the more honest version of what "I built this" means here. The architecture, the...

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Between companies ghosting job applicants and companies advertising ghost jobs that don’t exist, it can feel harder than ever to find a job. And so job-seekers trying to land a new role will sometimes do just about anything to try and get an employer’s attention. But...

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Elon Musk is reportedly going to launch a “flying car.” Not a flying taxi like those oversized drones that want to take rich people from Manhattan to JFK laughing at us peasants traveling in regular cabs. Not another old Tesla Roadster mounted atop a Falcon 9. No....