Month: November 2025

The TechBeat: The Illusion of Scale: Why LLMs Are Vulnerable to Data Poisoning, Regardless of Size (11/3/2025)

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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. ## The Silent Revolution: AI-Driven Network Decisions in Real-Time By @darshanbmehta [ 5 Min read ] The telecommunications industry is experiencing an … Read more

If a Data Broker Goes Bankrupt, What Happens to Your Sensitive Data?

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The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that delivers our stories and tools directly to your inbox. In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it … Read more

Netflix Eyes Warner Bros. Discovery in Potential Mega Acquisition Deal

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Streaming giant Netflix, Inc. has engaged investment bank Moelis & Co. to explore a potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.’s studio and streaming operations, and has been granted access to a data room containing financial details. Reuters Control of Warner Bros.’ film and TV studios would give Netflix access to major franchises such as Harry … Read more

Perplexity Links With Getty Images Under Major Global Licensing Pact

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Getty Images and AI search startup Perplexity signed a global multi‑year licensing agreement that grants Perplexity the rights to display Getty’s editorial and creative image library across its search and discovery tools. Reuters n The deal includes API access to Getty’s visuals, enabling Perplexity to pull licensed images directly and display them with proper attribution … Read more

Nvidia to Deliver 260,000+ Blackwell AI Chips to South Korea

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Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced “Blackwell” AI chips to South Korea’s government and major firms, including Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Reuters The deal positions South Korea to become a regional AI hub, aligning with President Lee Jae‑myung’s recent push for increased AI investment amid global economic and trade pressures. Under … Read more

China Grants Pony.ai City‑wide Driverless Robotaxi Licence

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Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai has received the first city‑wide permit for fully driverless commercial robotaxi operations in the city of Shenzhen, in southern China. Reuters The permit, jointly issued with the city’s leading taxi operator Xihu Group, will enable the rollout of fare‑paying, driverless ride‑hailing across districts including Nanshan, Qianhai, and Baoan, before expanding … Read more

Turkey Secures Uber’s $200M Five‑Year Commitment for Istanbul Tech Centre

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Uber Technologies Inc. will invest US$200 million over five years to establish a software and technology development centre in Istanbul, Turkey’s Industry and Technology Ministry said. Reuters The planned centre will become Uber’s fourth global tech hub outside the United States, joining similar facilities in Brazil, India, and the Netherlands. The move underscores Uber’s strategic push to … Read more

Engineering a Trillion-Parameter Architecture on Consumer Hardware

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The Centralization Problem As of 2025, AI development has become increasingly centralized: The Big Players: OpenAI (backed by Microsoft): GPT-4, GPT-5 in development Google DeepMind: Gemini Ultra, AlphaFold, AlphaCode Anthropic: Claude 3 Opus, Constitutional AI research Meta: LLaMA series, open-weights but trained on massive clusters xAI, Mistral, Cohere: All well-funded, cluster-dependent The Resource Barrier: Pretraining … Read more

AI Brawl: the Generative Model Showdown

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Four engines, one prompt, slightly suspiciously honest commentary Welcome to the colosseum. Today I’m pitting four image-generation heavyweights against one another: Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, BNX AI, and Google’s Nano Banana (the flashy image/editing arm of Gemini). I wrote this as a first-person lab notebook – a little messy, a little snarky, and committed to testing one single prompt across services so you can see … Read more

The Geographic Imperative: How CockroachDB Turns Maps into Architecture

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By Guru Hegde When we first deployed CockroachDB across three regions within the US, our metrics looked great until latency shot up in unpredictable ways. That’s when I learned geography isn’t just a deployment detail; it’s the real control plane of distributed databases. The Dream Database (and Its Hidden Catch): Every developer and system architect … Read more

Why Multimodal AI Broke the Data Pipeline — And How Daft Is Beating Ray and Spark to Fix It

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Multimodal AI workloads break traditional data engines. They need to embed documents, classify images, and transcribe audio, not just run aggregations and joins. These multimodal workloads are tough: memory usage balloons mid-pipeline, processing requires both CPU and GPU, and a single machine can’t handle the data volume. This post provides a comprehensive comparison of Daft … Read more