Month: February 2026

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 SEPA Instant Deadlines Have Passed. But Did Europe Really Go Instant? By @noda [ 4 Min read ] The major … Read more

The app sec community was happy to see that OWASP is considering making a move in their Top 10 update: “Security Logging and Alerting Failures” from position #10 to position #9, and highlighted in the 2025 release with a new name emphasizing a critical component that was often overlooked—alerting. “Security Logging & Alerting Failures” represents … Read more

In my previous analysis of Power Stranding, I explored the multi-billion-dollar art of ensuring that massive power infrastructure doesn’t sit idle. But for a data center financial analyst, solving the power equation isn’t just about building better substations. It’s about what sits inside the racks. Looking at a modern data center’s balance sheet in early … Read more

Every few years, the same question resurfaces: “What skills will be in demand in the future?” The recurring question of future in-demand skills has gained new urgency in 2026 due to rapid labour market transformation. The real issue isn’t a lack of information, but that most people are preparing for the wrong future by learning skills in … Read more

OpenAI has acquired Torch, a healthcare startup that aims to consolidate fragmented medical records into a single AI-accessible system. CNBC reports that all Torch employees are joining OpenAI, though the company has chosen not to disclose financial terms. At face value, the deal looks like a simple expansion of OpenAI’s health portfolio. However, that explanation … Read more

Imagine this: you’re in a team meeting, and your manager tells you there’s an old service, written a couple of years ago, that used to work fine but now breaks in some weird way. And you need to fix it. On top of that, they ask you to implement a new feature that the team … Read more

Say we are training an LLM or any other DL model. Sometimes we just have this feeling that training is too slow. We didn’t pay for our GPUs to sit idle. We want to use them as efficiently as possible. How can we speed things up? What is the best performance we can aim for? … Read more

For most of human history, writing was slow, scarce, and authoritative. To write was to fix meaning in place, and to read was to accept that fixation as a serious act. Digital networks loosened that authority by making text cheap and abundant. Generative AI finishes the job by removing human effort as the primary constraint … Read more

The concept of Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) was first introduced over two decades ago in 1999, by cryptographers Silvio Micali, Michael O. Rabin, and Salil Vadhan.  Back in the day, it was considered a generational breakthrough in cryptography. It gave cryptographers a way to produce randomness that anyone can verify, yet no one can predict … Read more