Month: August 2025

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Set Up a Cowrie Honeypot to Capture Real SSH Attacks (8/9/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 9, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, US military dropped the nuclear bomb “Fat Man” over the city of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, Computer Pioneer Marvin Minsky was born in 1927, First Email Sent From … Read more

Arthur Hayes ‘Had to Buy It All Back’ After Selling $8.3M Worth of ETH

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Arthur Hayes, co-founder of crypto exchange BitMEX, appears to have reversed course on a major ether (ETH) trade just days after warning of a market downturn. Last week, data from Arkham Intelligence showed that Hayes sold 2,373 ETH worth around $8.32 million, when the second-largest cryptocurrency was trading near $3,500 and moved into stablecoins. This … Read more

Commodity-Backed Cryptocurrencies Hit 5-Year Minting Record Over Gold Trade Turmoil

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Commodity-backed cryptocurrencies, which are dominated by gold-backed tokens, have seen a historic surge in issuance this week, with minting volumes hitting their highest point in at least five years. The leap comes after gold futures traded above a $3,500 all-time high this week, after the Swiss Precious Metals Association warned that the U.S.’s 39% tariffs … Read more

Beyond The Final Answer: Why Non-Experts Can’t Spot Bad AI Code

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Prior conceptualisations of intelligent assistance for programmers 3. A brief overview of large language models for code generation 4. Commercial programming tools that use large language models 5. Reliability, safety, and security implications of code-generating AI models 6. Usability and design studies of AI-assisted programming 7. Experience … Read more

Thinking Like A Computer: The Missing Skill For Non-Experts Using AI

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Prior conceptualisations of intelligent assistance for programmers 3. A brief overview of large language models for code generation 4. Commercial programming tools that use large language models 5. Reliability, safety, and security implications of code-generating AI models 6. Usability and design studies of AI-assisted programming 7. Experience … Read more

Why It’s Harder: The Unique Hurdles For Non-Experts Using AI Coding Tools

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Prior conceptualisations of intelligent assistance for programmers 3. A brief overview of large language models for code generation 4. Commercial programming tools that use large language models 5. Reliability, safety, and security implications of code-generating AI models 6. Usability and design studies of AI-assisted programming 7. Experience … Read more

RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks

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Kennedy asserts that wearables will help Americans “take control” of their health. It’s not that simple. I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” RFK Jr., our current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said this at … Read more

Trump-Linked World Liberty Seeks $1.5B for Public Crypto Holding Firm: Bloomberg

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World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance platform with ties to the Trump family, is said to be in talks with large investors to raise about $1.5 billion for a public company that would hold its WLFI tokens. The deal’s structure, Bloomberg reports, is still under discussion. The company approached deep-pocketed investors in technology and crypto, … Read more