Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film
The compact Polaroid Go is great for road trips and adventures. | Image: Polaroid Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the nostalgia of waiting for an instant photo to develop, Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film … Read more
Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback
Doh! | Image: Activision / 20th Century Fox At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, “I think the original game is coming back in some form,” before current showrunner Matt Selman added, “or not.” The tone in both of … Read more
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are “taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse.”
How Mailing Lists Break DMARC, and Why ARC Only Partly Fixes It
If you run a mailing list or any kind of forwarder and some of your subscribers quietly stopped receiving mail, DMARC is probably why. This is one of those problems baked into how the standards interact, not a bug you can configure away, and ARC is the patch the industry reached for. It helps less … Read more
UX Unpacked: Using the Fogg Behavior Model to Diagnose Product Adoption
The Fogg Behavior Model Why This Matters to You Imagine you’ve spent weeks designing a feature. You launch it — and crickets. Nobody uses it. Sound familiar? The problem might not be bad design. It might be that your users simply weren’t set up to take the action you wanted. This brings us to the … Read more
Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
If you squint you can just about make out the hat. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important … Read more
Your AI Productivity Gains Are Creating a Talent Crisis
AI is transforming the economics of entry-level work. Tasks that once occupied analysts, developers, marketers, lawyers, and other junior professionals for several days can now be completed in a few hours. Research can be summarized instantly, financial models can be reviewed automatically, code can be generated from a prompt, and a rough set of observations … Read more
10 Oracle 23ai Features That Make Everyday SQL Easier
Everyone wants to talk about vector search and AI-powered everything when Oracle 23ai comes up. Fair enough, that’s the headline feature. But after spending real hours in SQL*Plus and SQLcl against a 23ai instance, the stuff that’s actually changed my day-to-day isn’t the AI layer; it’s a batch of small SQL fixes that Oracle should … Read more
121 Blog Posts To Learn About K8s
Let’s learn about K8s via these 121 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. K8s, or Kubernetes, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It matters by providing a … Read more
Bybit adds Unitree, Moonshot AI to pre-IPO perpetuals lineup
The additions come as Bybit’s TradFi perpetuals lineup grows to more than 200 products spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and private companies.
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
Tokenized stock holders more than double as monthly volume surges
Tokenized equities reached 1.31 million holders over the past month, as monthly transfer volume surged 179% to $23.13 billion and distributed value rose 5.9% to $2.38 billion.
Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China
Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.
Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments
They’re far more powerful and fun than their bargain price suggests. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge When I’m asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron’s budget-minded Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes. They don’t grab headlines the way Teenage Engineering’s gear or the Telepathic Instruments … Read more
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
Robot maker Unitree is going public. Hyperliquid traders see 4x upside from IPO price
Hyperliquid traders value Unitree at nearly $38 billion versus $9 billion at its IPO, leaving leveraged bets vulnerable when trading begins, Allium analysts said.
Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF call options
Direct holdings of IBIT also rose 12% to 407,890 shares, while put option exposure dropped roughly 53% to 143,300 underlying shares during the quarter.
Why the world’s second-largest Bitcoin mining power is shutting down rigs in its capital city
The Energy Ministry enacted the year-round restriction to mitigate power capacity shortages, as energy-intensive mining facilities continue to strain regional grids.
Paul Tudor Jones’ investment firm increases stake in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF after year of selling
Calls fell 85.2% to 148,000 underlying shares, while puts slipped 1.4% to 715,000.