Month: May 2025

The HackerNoon Newsletter: These Hackers Want to Save the Internet From Itself (5/7/2025)

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How are you, hacker? đŸȘ What’s happening in tech today, May 7, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Sinking of Lusitania in 1915, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Calling Current LLM Wrappers “Agents” is Like Calling Excel Macros a Programming Language … Read more

Carta abandons startup shutdown business, instead backs SimpleClosure’s $15M Series A

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In February of 2024, equity management startup Carta revealed that it was getting into the startup winddown business with a new offering called Carta Conclusions. By December, the company had decided to “retire” that offering, according to a blog post. And now, SimpleClosure, a startup that has described itself as “the Turbo Tax of shutting … Read more

Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents

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Microsoft says that it’s embracing Google’s recently launched open protocol for allowing AI “agents” to communicate with each other. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) spec to two of its AI development platforms, Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. Microsoft has also joined the A2A working group on … Read more

Coinbase Earnings Pain Likely as Retail Activity Slumps, Wall Street Analysts Warn

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Coinbase (COIN) is heading into its first-quarter earnings report on shaky ground, with four Wall Street analysts expecting a miss as the retail trading lull is likely to pressure the crypto exchange’s most profitable business lines. The company is scheduled to report first-quarter results on Thursday post-market. The analysts are projecting earnings per share (EPS) … Read more

Why One of Uniswap DAO’s Most Outspoken Members Just Walked Away in Frustration

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One of the Uniswap DAO’s top contributors walked away in frustration on Monday amid concerns that other stakeholders wield too much power over the decentralised protocol. Pepo, a pseudonymous delegate whom other token holders entrusted to vote on their behalf, had participated in Uniswap’s governance since 2023. He wielded 455,000 UNI tokens, making him one … Read more

How Deutsche Bahn redefines forecasting using Chronos models – Now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

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This post is co-written with Kilian Zimmerer and Daniel Ringler from Deutsche Bahn. Every day, Deutsche Bahn (DB) moves over 6.6 million passengers across Germany, requiring precise time series forecasting for a wide range of purposes. However, building accurate forecasting models traditionally required significant expertise and weeks of development time. Today, we’re excited to explore … Read more

The Market Reaction to Trump’s Tariffs Signals a Broader Acceptance of Bitcoin’s ‘Digital Gold’ Narrative

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In financial markets, making assumptions based on short-term observations is a fool’s errand, as significant trends develop over months and years, not days or weeks. But as investors evaluate bitcoin’s role in their portfolios, the events of April are worth analyzing in order to understand the asset’s emerging reputation as a store of value. Backdrop … Read more

Coinbase’s SEC Documents Reveal NY Attorney General Wanted ETH Declared Security

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The New York State Attorney General asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to openly declare Ethereum’s ether (ETH) was a security, not a commodity, during the state’s prosecution of KuCoin in 2023, according to a document revealed by Coinbase Inc. in a trove of agency communications released on Wednesday. Shamiso Maswoswe, chief of the … Read more

How Microsoft shrunk its Surface devices

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Microsoft has brought me inside the Surface hardware lab from time to time over the years, showing me how its engineers test the hinges and fabrics that go into its products. They’re usually typical engineering demonstrations, but last month I was invited to Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to see how the company built its … Read more

Safeheron introduces open-source Intel SGX TEE framework for Web3 security

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Safeheron, a digital asset infrastructure provider based in Singapore, has introduced an open-source Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) framework. This solution could bolster security and privacy for Web3 in sectors like decentralized finance (DeFi), payment services, and decentralized autonomous organizations. The TEE framework is the first built upon the native Intel SGX SDK and developed using … Read more