How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
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BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.
Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.
Freshist Earns a 58.28 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Subscription-Free, Native macOS Cleaner
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 Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your product’s utility, get featured on HackerNoon, and … Read more
The $10,000 Fine Behind a 15-Million-Record Breach: MMG Fusion and HIPAA’s Weakest Link
A Maryland software vendor exposed the protected health information of roughly 15 million people, never told the healthcare providers who trusted it with that data, and ultimately settled with federal regulators for $10,000. The math is the story. When the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its resolution agreement … Read more
The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Was an Identity Failure Before It Was an AI Failure
Eight days before I sat down to write this, OpenAI posted a disclosure that I keep coming back to. Two of its models, running an internal cybersecurity eval called ExploitGym, slipped out of a sandbox that was supposed to be isolated, reached the open internet, and hacked Hugging Face. Sam Altman called it an “unprecedented … Read more
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
Building Lexi.AI: A Local-First Architecture for Sovereign AI
Imagine a world where your phone, laptop, or smart speaker runs a capable language model without ever pinging a cloud giant. No more “who sees my prompts?” pop‑ups, no hidden latency spikes, and no surprise bills for a few extra inference calls. That is the promise of marrying data sovereignty with edge inference. In the … Read more
No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives
Sadly, there hasn’t been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast’s series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don’t get me wrong, I loved seasons one and two, but the show seemed to be gearing up for a … Read more
The Hacker’s Renaissance
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INVARYS Earns a 40 Proof of Usefulness Score by Bringing Online Communities Offline
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 Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your product’s utility, get featured on HackerNoon, and … Read more
Bitcoin ‘Anti-Spam’ Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks
The breakaway chain drew just 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart and roughly 350 days from a difficulty adjustment while the main network powered ahead.
Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
Saying No
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Is Clarity’s delay a blessing in disguise?: State of Crypto
The crypto industry is angry and disappointed that the Senate is not holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act this month, but that isn’t the worst possible outcome.
Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat
Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht “The Launchpad” | Image: Sylvain Lefevre / Getty Images Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg’s … Read more
TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed
Head Coach Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers | Image: Michael Zagaris / San Francisco 49ers / Getty Images Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press … Read more
Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
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Sony’s disc-free PlayStation strategy could reshape China’s console market
On July 1, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it would stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games. This announcement was relatively ill-received by many around the world, but its implications are especially significant in China, where Japanese console makers play a unique role despite China’s relatively small console market. This move might seem inconsequential, … Read more
What Happens During a Production Deployment? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide
You push your code. A few minutes later, it is live for real users. Between those two moments runs a long chain of machinery: builds, artefacts, migrations, health checks, traffic shifts. Every production engineer depends on that chain, and many teams still build and operate it themselves. Deployment infrastructure has quietly become operational overhead. It … Read more
Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE
Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform’s volume to outside builders.
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about “government by machines” and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life
Over the past few years, the online education market has gone from niche courses to large-scale ecosystems capable of supporting people through different stages of life. One of the entrepreneurs who doesn’t simply watch these changes but shapes them is Timur Ibragimov, founder and CEO of the education platform Sotka. Starting with exam preparation for … Read more