Month: August 2025

Flare Lands Second Public Company For its XRP DeFi Framework

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XRP’s slow push into institutional finance just picked up another backer. Data-focused blockchain firm Flare announced on Friday that Everything Blockchain Inc. (OTC: EBZT), a U.S.-listed company, has signed a memorandum of understanding to adopt its XRP finance (XRPFi) framework for corporate treasury yield. The move comes months after Nasdaq-listed VivoPower International PLC (NASDAQ: VVPR) … Read more

Detect Amazon Bedrock misconfigurations with Datadog Cloud Security

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This post was co-written with Nick Frichette and Vijay George from Datadog.  As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Bedrock for generative AI applications, protecting against misconfigurations that could lead to data leaks or unauthorized model access becomes critical. The AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, revealed that 45% … Read more

Set up custom domain names for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime agents

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When deploying AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime (currently in preview), customers often want to use custom domain names to create a professional and seamless experience. By default, AgentCore Runtime agents use endpoints like https://bedrock-agentcore.{region}.amazonaws.com/runtimes/{EncodedAgentARN}/invocations. In this post, we discuss how to transform these endpoints into user-friendly custom domains (like https://agent.yourcompany.com) using Amazon CloudFront … Read more

XLM Declines 8% as Institutional Investors Retreat Amid Market Uncertainty

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Stellar’s native token XLM came under heavy institutional selling pressure in the latest trading session, falling from $0.39 to $0.36 between August 28 at 3:00 p.m. and August 29 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Market data shows more than 41.89 million XLM changed hands, with volumes surging as large holders reduced exposure. Despite the pressure, Stellar’s … Read more

Introducing auto scaling on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

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Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports managed node automatic scaling with Karpenter, so you can efficiently scale your SageMaker HyperPod clusters to meet your inference and training demands. Real-time inference workloads require automatic scaling to address unpredictable traffic patterns and maintain service level agreements (SLAs). As demand spikes, organizations must … Read more

How SCOR’s “Invitational” Event Is Changing Gaming Airdrops And What It Means For Players

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SCOR is rolling out the SCOR Invitational on August 29, 2025. It is a pre-token event that asks players to commit the Gems they have earned inside SCOR’s Telegram mini app. The new SCOR Center is the place where players convert Gems to $SCOR at token generation, climb weekly leaderboards, and earn multipliers that apply … Read more

Framework actually did it: I upgraded a laptop’s entire GPU in just three minutes

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On Tuesday, I told you how the modular computer company Framework was finally fulfilling its promise of the “holy grail for gamers” – a laptop with modular, swappable discrete graphics cards so easy to swap, practically anyone can do it at home. The first futureproof gaming laptop, perhaps? Today, I can confirm the system actually … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: What Happens When Blockchain Becomes Mutable? (8/29/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 29, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The British Computer Misuse Act Went into Effect in 1990, Michael Faraday Discovered Electromagnetic Induction in 1831, Meitnerium was Synthesized for the First time in 1982, and we … Read more

How to Install and Use OpenAI’s Codex Agent in VS Code

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This tutorial will guide you through the process of integrating OpenAI’s powerful Codex coding agent directly into your Visual Studio Code environment. This tool functions as an AI pair programmer, capable of understanding complex prompts to execute commands, write code, run tests, and even build entire applications from scratch. Before you begin, ensure you have the following: … Read more

Brain-Inspired AI: Early Results from a Radical New Neuron Model

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How the foundational component of a new architecture for AI was forged, validated, and ultimately revealed the limits of standard benchmarks. This work represents a comprehensive research pipeline built from scratch, encompassing formal mathematical foundations, a PyTorch implementation, visualization tools, and systematic experimental validation across a series of experiments. The entire system is open-source, enabling … Read more

Henrik Fisker quietly wound down his nonprofit after his EV startup went bankrupt

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Henrik Fisker, the founder of failed EV startup Fisker Inc., and his wife Geeta quietly wound down a private charitable foundation established in late 2021 that was supposed to “incubate innovation in healthcare, education, sustainability, mobility, and all causes that help support the planet and improve and further the lives of people and animals.” A … Read more