Month: August 2025

A treaty to end plastic pollution is still out of reach — that’s not necessarily a bad thing 

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Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Special Representative for Climate Change, Panama, speaks at a press conference ahead of the final INC-5.2 Negotiation plenary Session, warning negotiators that a weak treaty will fail the world. | Image: © Greenpeace / Marie Jacquemin The nations of the world have been on the precipice of reaching a global agreement … Read more

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape

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Anthropic has updated the usage policy for its Claude AI chatbot in response to growing concerns about safety. In addition to introducing stricter cybersecurity rules, Anthropic now specifies some of the most dangerous weapons that people should not develop using Claude. Anthropic doesn’t highlight the tweaks made to its weapons policy in the post summarizing … Read more

U.S. Fed Officially Scraps Specialist Group Meant to Oversee Crypto Issues

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The Federal Reserve continued its relaxation of crypto oversight on Friday with a move to shut down a two-year-old supervisory program intended to keep a special eye on banks’ crypto ties, instead folding that task back to its day-to-day oversight work. The central bank established its short-lived Novel Activities Supervision Program during the tenure of … Read more

Lamborghini’s new plug-in hybrid is the fastest car its ever built

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Lamborghini makes fast cars; this is an indisputable fact. So when the iconic Italian automaker says it’s new plug-in hybrid is both “the most powerful V12 every built” and “the fastest Lamborghini ever,” you should pay attention. At Monterey Car Week, Lamborghini unveiled its new Fenomeno plug-in hypercar that will be part of the automaker’s … Read more

Build a scalable containerized web application on AWS using the MERN stack with Amazon Q Developer – Part 1

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The MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack is a popular JavaScript web development framework. The combination of technologies is well-suited for building scalable, modern web applications, especially those requiring real-time updates and dynamic user interfaces. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that improves developer efficiency across the different phases of the software development … Read more

Optimizing Salesforce’s model endpoints with Amazon SageMaker AI inference components

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This post is a joint collaboration between Salesforce and AWS and is being cross-published on both the Salesforce Engineering Blog and the AWS Machine Learning Blog. The Salesforce AI Platform Model Serving team is dedicated to developing and managing services that power large language models (LLMs) and other AI workloads within Salesforce. Their main focus … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Microservices: Is It Worth the Trouble? (8/15/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 15, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Programmer Suggested Bundling Internet Explorer in Windows 95 in 1994, AMD introduced the Socket F CPU socket in 2006, Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2011, and we present … Read more

Digital Asset Treasury Firms Plunge as Bitcoin Tumbles Below $117K, ETH Slides to $4.4K

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Digital asset treasury (DAT) firms, seen as high-beta plays on crypto prices, sold off sharply on Friday as the August crypto rally showed signs of exhaustion. Strategy (MSTR) fell another 3% on Friday, extending its decline to 20% since July’s high and 33% from the November 2024 all-time high. The MSTR/IBIT ratio dropped to 5.43, … Read more

Building a RAG chat-based assistant on Amazon EKS Auto Mode and NVIDIA NIMs

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Chat-based assistants powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) are transforming customer support, internal help desks, and enterprise search, by delivering fast, accurate answers grounded in your own data. With RAG, you can use a ready-to-deploy foundation model (FM) and enrich it with your own data, making responses relevant and context-aware without the need for fine-tuning … Read more