Month: September 2025
Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun
The solar cell does not light up, contrary to Logitech’s marketing images for the K980. | Image: Logitech Logitech left solar-powered keyboards in the dark for over a decade, but it’s launching a new one today. Just like the K760 before it, its new $99.99 Signature Slim Solar Plus K980 can only be powered with … Read more
The WEF Wants to Put a Market Price on Nature
The WEF claims that Larry Fink & Andre Hoffmann’s work on the board ‘do not represent any personal or professional interests,’ but they stand everything to gain: perspective With billionaires Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann as the new co-chairs, the World Economic Forum (WEF) publishes a 50-page blueprint on how to monetize everything in nature. … Read more
How Generative AI Can Be Used in Cybersecurity
Generative AI has entered cybersecurity with full force, and like every powerful technology, it comes with its pros and cons. On one side, attackers are already experimenting with AI to generate malware, craft phishing campaigns, and create deepfakes that erode trust. On the other hand, defenders are beginning to use AI to scale penetration testing, … Read more
Kraken Donates $1M to Pro-Trump PAC to Support Crypto Privacy Rights
Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the fight for crypto in the United States is “far from over,” as the exchange looks to back pro-crypto policy.
How to Teach Sales Reps to Pitch Cybersecurity in 1 Hour—Even Without Tech Skills
When my sales team thought “pentest” was a typo, I realized the real challenge: bridging the gap between sales and cybersecurity.
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Kimmel returns to television to mock FCC Chair Brendan Carr
Jimmy Kimmel made a triumphant return to television (in most, but not all, cities) on Tuesday night, devoting his monologue to his short but shocking removal from the air. The comedian tackled the uproar head-on, directly naming Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission Chair who had instigated Kimmel’s censorship. In a later segment, he took … Read more
Why Small Models Matter in a Network of Experts Era
Innovation is about dreaming big. Dream next-level. Challenge the norm, or even the emergent. 2025 is exciting for AI, but it is still all transitional technology. Mixture of Experts (MoE) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) are great, and we see how well it works, especially with the quality and disruption of models like DeepSeek, Kimi … Read more
How to Stop Getting Spam Emails—The Complete Guide to Removing Your Personal Information Online
Another ding in your email and there you have it: a flood of spam messages promising get-rich-quick schemes or exclusive offers on products you stopped purchasing years ago. So you go through the whole rigamarole of deleting: you mark them as spam, move them to junk, click the unsubscribe link, but they keep coming. The … Read more
How to Use Slack Incoming and Outgoing Webhooks for Real-Time AI Agents
Now our application is containerized and ready for deployment, let’s expand its capabilities by integrating a new input source. Slack is an excellent choice for this. Integrating Slack for Real-Time Communications Imagine a scenario where we want to receive real-time notifications for new messages in specific Slack channels. This allows us to process these messages using Large Language Models (LLMs) to … Read more
Using ChatGPT Like a Junior Dev: Productive, But Needs Checking
AI coding assistants like ChatGPT are everywhere now. They can scaffold components, generate test cases, and even debug code. But here’s the catch: they’re not senior engineers. They don’t have context of your project history, and they don’t automatically spot when the tests themselves are wrong. In other words: treat ChatGPT like a junior dev … Read more
The TechBeat: Terraforming Mars Could Save Earth (or Doom Us All) (9/24/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## True Announces $TRUE Token Sale to Build the First AI-Native Perpetuals DEX on Solana By @pressreleases [ 4 Min read ] … Read more
Bitcoin to ‘move up smartly again’ toward end of 2025: Saylor
Strategy chair Michael Saylor says Bitcoin will gain after “macro headwinds” subside as treasury companies and ETFs put upward pressure on the cryptocurrency.
List is a Monad: Understanding Map, flatMap, and Maybe in Practice
Note July 6th 2025: this post’s original title was “A list is a monad”. It has been changed to “List is a monad”. Note Sept 13 2025: this post has been revised based on the feedback from the Hacker News discussion. The term “monad” is often invoked when describing patterns in functional programming. At the … Read more
Revering AI Reveals Incompetence, Not Intelligence
Nothing is really good anymore; and AI is the peak of this lamentable trend.
Why “Classical Excess” Could Be the Next Big Tool in Quantum Research
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Operational theories, ontological models and contextuality Contextuality for general probabilistic theories 3.1 GPT systems 3.2 Operational theory associated to a GPT system 3.3 Simulations of GPT systems 3.4 Properties of univalent simulations Hierarchy of contextuality and 4.1 Motivation and the resource theory 4.2 Contextuality of composite systems 4.3 … Read more
Bitcoin indicator’s record squeeze signals ‘significant volatility storm’ ahead
Bitcoin’s Bollinger Bands compressed to record-tight weekly levels, with analysts predicting inevitable volatility expansion and major price movement.
The Science of Causality and the Resetting of Karma: A Manifesto for a New Way of Thinking
What if karma isn’t a moral law — but an engineering problem? This manifesto proposes a radical idea: karma is a field recording in the continuum of causality, and it can be reset — not through prayer or penance, but through total field isolation. Supported by cutting-edge neuroscience — including evidence that microtubules in our … Read more
How I Built a Simple MDX Blog in Next.js and why I chose native mdx over Contentlayer
There are many ways to host blogs with Next.js but I needed something fast & simple: plain MDX files, first‑party support, and zero extra content pipelines. No Contentlayer (which is unmaintained). No next-mdx-remote. No heavy weighted CMS systems. TL;DR Next.js’s official MDX integration lets you import .mdx as components and export metadata alongside content. See … Read more
Shadow AI Is Inevitable. Here’s How You Can Govern It Without Killing Speed
You can’t protect or govern what you can’t see. The new frontier of compliance isn’t stopping AI, it’s channeling it – Anonymous CISO When leaders say “shadow IT,” I picture expense-report footprints, forgotten SaaS trials, rogue cloud accounts, a server humming under someone’s desk. Shadow AI leaves no receipts. It’s a browser tab, a personal … Read more
Curate Your Own Ad-Free YouTube Experience: A Simple Guide for Watching Your Favorite Channels
Love a few select YouTube channels but want to enjoy them without interruptions or algorithmic suggestions pulling you elsewhere? This tutorial is for you! We’ll walk through a process to create a personalized, ad-free library of your favorite content using Mac software, though it’s easily adaptable for Windows or Linux. This setup lets you watch … Read more
Decentralization’s Dark Patterns: Why Open Networks Keep Rebuilding Gates
The bazaar is still lively; stalls are full, voices are loud, and deals are happening everywhere. But if you look closely, the gates are taller now, and guards at the entrances are quietly collecting fees. The place still looks like an “open market,” but it feels more like going through a checkpoint than wandering freely. … Read more
Neovate Code Is Open Sourced
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Bitcoin ‘Buy The Dip’ Calls Surge, But Liquidity Trends Point to $107K as Potential Magnet
Bitcoin’s (BTC) break below key support has prompted a flurry of ‘buy the dip’ calls on social media. However, liquidity trends suggest a potential for a deeper decline. BTC has dropped over 3% to $111,590 this week, piercing the widely-tracked 50- and 100-day simple moving averages (SMA). Both indicators have lost their upward momentum for … Read more
The Beauty of Programming (2001)
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DOGE Holds Firm Above $0.24 Support in Choppy Session
Broader crypto sentiment remained fragile amid risk-off flows, though DOGE showed resilience with consistent liquidity inflows. News Background Dogecoin (DOGE) consolidated in a tight band during the 24-hour window from September 23 at 03:00 to September 24 at 02:00, trading between $0.236 and $0.244. Early rallies at 06:00 and 16:00 tested the $0.244 mark, but … Read more
Crypto millionaires at record level with ‘watershed year for institutional adoption’
The number of crypto millionaires has jumped 40% year-on-year to over 240,000, driven mainly by institutional adoption, according to Henley & Partners.