SHRINCS BIP published: Quantum-secure Bitcoin comes with a catch
A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal for the SHRINCS signature scheme has just been published to upgrade Bitcoin to quantum secure. Here’s everything you need to know.
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
SEC resurrecting U.S. crypto custody rule the previous administration failed to land
In 2023, the regulator tried to narrowly restrict the places investment advisers could park clients’ crypto assets, but the new approach is still shrouded in secrecy.
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Russian Influence Network Used ChatGPT to Masquerade as Academic Experts
The operation promoted a purported Israeli think tank that published copied scholarship under academics’ names and circulated pro-Russian analysis across social media.
Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax and Jobs Humans Can’t Be Fired From
Gates is calling for AI tokens and robots to be taxed so firms think twice before swapping out workers, plus a bracket of “human reserved” roles that stay off-limits to automation.
Nvidia Shares Surge in After-Hours Trading After Record $96.2 Billion Revenue
The chipmaker doubled quarterly revenue while disclosing $366 billion in future commitments and up to $108.5 billion in guarantee exposure.
Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
Nvidia’s predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn’t be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue – Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion … Read more
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic’s white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into … Read more
Durable Agent Workflows Need Idempotency Before They Need Checkpoints
Checkpointing is an easy feature to sell: If the agent crashes, it resumes where it left off. That sentence is reassuring and incomplete. A workflow engine can restore its own state. It cannot atomically restore the external world. Between “call the refund API” and “save the successful checkpoint,” the refund may succeed, the acknowledgement may … Read more
Nvidia shares rise after earnings top estimates, guides to $108 billion in revenue next quarter
The tech bellwether reported fiscal second-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday.
What Traders Are Watching for Bitcoin’s Next Move
Bitcoin’s monster rally just hit its first real test. Here’s why each catalyst matters and how they could move the price from here.
CoinMarketCap Obtains SOC 1 & 2 Attestations and Dual ISO Certifications
Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, August 26th, 2026/Chainwire/–CoinMarketCap has obtained a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation report, following an independent examination of the controls protecting the systems behind its market data. CoinMarketCap also completed the SOC 1 Type 1 examination. Both reports add to the international certifications the company already holds for information security and privacy … Read more
Better launches Bitcoin-backed mortgages powered by Coinbase
Better and Coinbase have launched a crypto-backed mortgage product that lets US homebuyers pledge Bitcoin as collateral for a down payment without having to sell it.
54 Blog Posts To Learn About Nodejs Tutorial
Let’s learn about Nodejs Tutorial via these 54 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. A guide explaining how to use Node.js, a JavaScript runtime for server-side development, which is crucial for building fast, scalable … Read more
All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. … Read more
Galaxy Opens Retail Crypto-Backed Credit Lines on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana
GalaxyOne clients can borrow cash against Bitcoin, Ethereum, and staked Solana at 8.99% APR without selling a coin.
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
US Banks Join Forces to Build a Blockchain of Their Own
The BankChain Alliance aims to give smaller financial institutions access to tokenized deposits and blockchain payments through a shared network targeted for 2027.
Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards
The Pixel 11 in hibiscus. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL when you use the coupon code PIXEL11 … Read more
Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
AI teams building production agents face a frustrating asymmetry: the diversity of agent frameworks keeps growing, but evaluation tooling has not kept pace. Most evaluation systems assume you built your agent in a specific way: a specific SDK, a specific large language model (LLM) client, a specific tracing pattern. The moment you step outside that … Read more