Texas sues Roblox for allegedly failing to protect children on its platform

Texas AG Ken Paxton is accusing Roblox of “putting pixel pedophiles and profits over the safety of Texas children,” alleging in a lawsuit filed this week that it is “flagrantly ignoring state and federal online safety laws while deceiving parents about the dangers of its platform.”  The lawsuit accuses Roblox of deceptive trade practices for … Read more

Does the Trump phone exist yet?

Last week I asked where the Trump phone was. The answer? Nowhere. There’s no update, no response, no sign of it. And since it’s still not here, I am — again — asking the same question. And I’m afraid I’m going to keep being here, week in, week out, until I have a T1 Phone in … Read more

X appears to be sending fake traffic across the web

X’s new link experiment on iOS may be artificially inflating traffic. Websites like Substack and Bluesky noticed a sharp increase in “fake” views following the update, something that Nick Eubanks, the VP of owned media at the digital marketing platform Semrush, attributes to a new behavior that preloads content before users click on it. “What’s … Read more

ZEC Goes Higher! Google x Polymarket integration announced! Virtuals Protocol interview with EverythingEmpty!

Crypto markets turned red, with major tokens falling sharply — Bitcoin dropped 3% to $99,800, Ethereum slipped 4% to $3,210, Binance Coin declined 1% to $933, and Solana fell 3% to $152. Among top movers, Filecoin surged 50%, Zcash gained 20%, Internet Computer rose 20%, and NEAR Protocol climbed 18%. Crypto-related stocks also tumbled yesterday, … Read more

Ploopy’s smallest open-source trackball now includes a button

The Nano 2’s new button comes pre-programmed to trigger a scrolling mode, but its functionality can be customized. | Image: Ploopy Canadian-based Ploopy announced the Nano 2 on Friday. It’s an update to the ultra-compact Nano trackball featuring a new button, improved performance, and a USB-C port that replaces the original’s chunky USB-B port. The … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Choose a Dependency: Build vs Buy, Risk Management, and More (11/7/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 7, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote in 1893, The First air cargo shipment was undertaken in 1910, NASA launched the Mars … Read more

Algorithm and Data Imbalance: Implementing the New IIL Benchmarks

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related works Problem setting Methodology 4.1. Decision boundary-aware distillation 4.2. Knowledge consolidation Experimental results and 5.1. Experiment Setup 5.2. Comparison with SOTA methods 5.3. Ablation study Conclusion and future work and References Supplementary Material Details of the theoretical analysis on KCEMA mechanism in IIL Algorithm overview Dataset details … Read more

KC-EMA Mechanism: Theoretical Analysis and Derivation for IIL

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related works Problem setting Methodology 4.1. Decision boundary-aware distillation 4.2. Knowledge consolidation Experimental results and 5.1. Experiment Setup 5.2. Comparison with SOTA methods 5.3. Ablation study Conclusion and future work and References Supplementary Material Details of the theoretical analysis on KCEMA mechanism in IIL Algorithm overview Dataset details … Read more