Month: February 2026

:::info Authors: Enes Altuncu, ea483@kent.ac.uk (University of Kent, UK) Virginia N. L. Franqueira, V.Franqueira@kent.ac.uk (University of Kent, UK) Shujun Li, S.J.Li@kent.ac.uk (University of Kent, UK) ::: Abstract Recent advancements in AI, especially deep learning, have contributed to a significant increase in the creation of new realistic-looking synthetic media (video, image, and audio) and manipulation of … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Why “Small Changes” Don’t Exist in Production Game Systems to How to Navigate Identity, Direction, Story, and Sovereignty in … Read more

Go 1.21 includes a preview of a change to for loop scoping that we plan to ship in Go 1.22, removing one of the most common Go mistakes. The Problem If you’ve written any amount of Go code, you’ve probably made the mistake of keeping a reference to a loop variable past the end of … Read more

It’s just a small change! How often do we hear that we need to fix something? We need to add a small feature. We need to tweak something. Code-wise or publishing, just realized they need this for retention, or maybe an analyst brought the newest data, so now we have to add just a few … Read more

:::info Authors: Junyang Lin, junyang.ljy@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Rui Men, menrui.mr@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) An Yang, ya235025@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Chang Zhou, ericzhou.zc@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Ming Ding, dm18@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (Tsinghua University, China) Yichang Zhang, yichang.zyc@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Peng Wang, zheluo.wp@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Ang Wang, wangang.wa@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, China) Le Jiang, jiangle.jl@alibaba-inc.com (Alibaba Group, … Read more

:::info Authors: Jinze Bai Shuai Bai Yunfei Chu Zeyu Cui Kai Dang Xiaodong Deng Yang Fan Wenbin Ge Yu Han Fei Huang Binyuan Hui Luo Ji Mei Li Junyang Lin Runji Lin Dayiheng Liu Gao Liu Chengqiang Lu Keming Lu Jianxin Ma Rui Men Xingzhang Ren Xuancheng Ren Chuanqi Tan Sinan Tan Jianhong Tu Peng … Read more

The Mirror that would pose as an Oracle Or: How we might be getting a little too intimate with our AI chatbots I never consciously set out to use AI as a coach, therapist, strategist, or mirror. It just… happened. At first, it was practical. Notes. Lists. Rewrites, drafts, edits. Research. Planning. Then it became … Read more

This article was co-published with STAT, a national publication that delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Sign up for its health tech newsletter here. Telehealth company Cerebral will limit the consumer health data it uses for advertising purposes under a new order announced by the Federal Trade Commission last week. Cerebral, … Read more

:::info Authors: Yue Wang, wang.y@salesforce.com (Salesforce Research Asia) Weishi Wang, weishi.wang@salesforce.com (Salesforce Research Asia; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Shafiq Joty, sjoty@salesforce.com (Salesforce Research Asia; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Steven C.H. Hoi, shoi@salesforce.com (Salesforce Research Asia) ::: Abstract Pre-trained models for Natural Languages (NL) like BERT and GPT have been recently shown to transfer well to … Read more

:::info Authors: Liang Wang (Microsoft Corporation) Nan Yang (Microsoft Corporation) Xiaolong Huang (Microsoft Corporation) Binxing Jiao (Microsoft Corporation) Linjun Yang (Microsoft Corporation) Daxin Jiang (Microsoft Corporation) Rangan Majumder (Microsoft Corporation) Furu Wei (Microsoft Corporation) ::: Abstract This paper presents E5 1, a family of state-of-the-art text embeddings that transfer well to a wide range of … Read more