BTC treasury firm Empery Digital invests $20M in AI data center developer Cardinal Data Power
The investment marks Empery’s latest push into AI infrastructure as the company shifts capital away from its Bitcoin treasury strategy.
Month: July 2026
Building multi-Region visualizations with Highcharts in Amazon Quick
When your carrier performance data spans multiple regions, your dashboard must reconcile fundamentally different competitive structures within a single view. For example, in the US, you rank three carriers (Carrier 1–3) across 49 states and hundreds of metro markets. In the UK, you’re comparing four carriers (Carrier 4–7) across a separate set of national regions. … Read more
Amazon puts Luna cloud-streamed games like Fallout 4 inside Prime Video
The new strategy that Amazon gaming exec Jeff Gattis talked to The Verge about last month is getting clearer now that Prime Video has added a new Games tab on Fire TV devices. With Prime Gaming, Amazon Game Studios, and Luna now combined into one organization, it’s aiming at the more casual audience of people … Read more
Detecting silent agent failures with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization
If you’re operating AI agents at scale, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore surfaces a category of insights you’ve probably experienced but struggle to detect: your dashboards show green across the board. 99% completion rate, healthy latency, zero error spikes. And yet customer complaints trickle in about incorrect outcomes. An order modification that was never actually executed. A … Read more
Agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Your users ask multi-part, comparative, and exploratory questions that span PDFs, slides, tickets, transcripts, and web content. Classic single-shot retrieval breaks down on these questions. Answers miss context, support tickets escalate, and analysts waste hours re-running searches. Agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases is designed for these questions. Consider two questions an analyst … Read more
Tesla’s robotaxis are moving in reverse
The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla’s own figures.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie’s song “Five Years,” which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Ethereum nears market bottom against Bitcoin, though key signals remain unconfirmed: CryptoQuant
Ether trades below its realized price while onchain indicators point to easing selling pressure and recovering demand, though a definitive cycle bottom has yet to emerge.
Uniswap Ticks for Dummies: The Accounting Trick Behind Concentrated Liquidity
If you’ve ever opened a Uniswap V3 or V4 position and seen a chart full of little vertical bars, price ranges, and a mysterious number called a “tick,” you’ve probably felt a small wave of panic. Don’t worry, ticks are one of those ideas that sound intimidating but turn out to be pretty simple once … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Summer AI Agents Started Going Rogue (7/23/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 23, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Commodore Launches the Amiga 1000 in 1985, NASA’s Chandra Observatory Joins the Columbia in 1999, Typewriter Was Patented in 1829, and we present you with these top quality … Read more
The Two Extremes of AI Adoption: Navigating Between Fear and Blind Trust
Introduction The discussion around AI is often dominated by two extremes. One side believes AI has arrived and that software engineering is finished. The other believes AI has arrived, and learning software engineering is no longer necessary. In my opinion, both perspectives are flawed. Before discussing the extremes, it is important to understand something: Technology … Read more
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders
Xbox Insiders can stream games from their libraries for free in ad-supported streaming sessions starting today. The free streaming sessions are limited to games you already own, and sessions are capped at one hour. However, ads will only play “before sessions begin.” It’s also optional – you won’t need to watch ads if you have … Read more
The SEC settles with Coinbase over its missing Gary Gensler texts
A new court status report reveals the agency will pay a flat fee to resolve a two-year fight over what former Chair Gary Gensler knew about Ethereum.
BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy Pledge $15M to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin
Nine of the biggest institutional names in Bitcoin formed a consortium to fund the developers working to keep the network secure—including from future quantum computers.
Safe to Say, Enterprises Are Done With the AI Model Beauty Pageant
One thing about rapid AI development that has stood out to me over the years is how little I care, or better put, pay attention to AI capabilities outside my workflow or interest areas. I raged and raged against the dying of the light when I read ghost stories about AI advancements in creative writing … Read more
Explaining the gRPC Myth: Here’s What Happens to HTTP at 100 Concurrent Threads
I used to buy into the generic developer hype: “gRPC is 10x faster than HTTP, it just has some configuration overhead.” While technically true on paper, running a comprehensive stress test on my own system revealed a much more pragmatic reality. When building my Architecture-Boilerplate `headsntails` (Golang-based infrastructure which, in its current state, serves as … Read more
Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there’s a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Edtech platform raises $4.5M to help teach students how to vibe code
Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am.
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model — no GPUs required, it says.
Amazon’s best 4K streaming sticks are up to 40 percent off
There’s no shortage of great shows and movies to watch, but discovering something new isn’t always easy. Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and Fire TV Stick 4K Max come with redesigned software that aims to make it easier to finding something you’ll like, and both 4K-ready streaming sticks are back to their lowest prices … Read more
The new Halo remake is a reminder of what Xbox used to be
It’s impossible to talk about a new Xbox game without also talking about the state of Xbox. Microsoft’s gaming division is in freefall: Recent headlines are dominated by extensive layoffs, decimated studios, and confusing strategies, most of which stem from years of bad decisions and expensive acquisitions. But it wasn’t always that way. Through its … Read more
Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
Amazon is bringing games to Prime Video
Amazon is hoping the addition of games can turn Prime Video into a one-stop entertainment destination, borrowing a strategy from Netflix, which has increasingly embraced party games over the past several years.