Month: August 2026
Charles Schwab Expands Crypto Trading Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum
The brokerage will expand Schwab Crypto trading to Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink, but has not given a launch date for the three tokens.
Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites … Read more
How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2
This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of the world’s largest sporting goods retailers, with more than 100,000 teammates and 400 million users worldwide. The company relies on accurate demand forecasting at scale to support the availability of the appropriate products in each … Read more
DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything
The unofficial version of DLSS 5 makes Jesse Faden’s features much more pronounced. | Image: gabdeg via YouTube Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA … Read more
Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components
When Salesforce set out to make Agentforce (Salesforce’s AI foundation for agents) highly available (HA) across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), the team faced a gap. Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Components (ICs) could cut GPU costs, but their default placement didn’t guarantee the Multi-AZ resilience Salesforce’s compliance bar required. For Salesforce, the ICs delivered an 8x … Read more
Bullish provides USD.AI $100M stablecoin facility for GPU-backed lending
The institutional crypto exchange is providing $100 million in stablecoin liquidity to support loans backed by AI computing infrastructure.
Solana vote to double disinflation passes by a hair in dramatic finish
Solana’s first network-wide vote went down to the wire, with Kraken and Galaxy-linked validators switching sides before the disinflation proposal narrowly passed.
Bitcoin Miner IREN Shares Fall as AI Conversion Costs Mount
AI cloud revenue topped Bitcoin mining for the first time as IREN accelerated its data center conversion.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: 5 Trust-Building Mistakes Smart People Make (8/28/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The End of AppleTalk in 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation Was Established in 1937, First Issue of Scientific American hit the newsstands in 1845, and we present you with … Read more
More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey
The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.
Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M
Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.
Bitcoin dips to $78.4K as Fed’s Warsh downplays softer inflation prints
Bitcoin failed to make a decisive break above $80,000 as traders digested Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole keynote speech, which remained wary of US inflation trends.
The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse
You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it. This week on The Vergecast, we dive right into the big week of Apple news. First, it’s the refreshed Mac Mini and Mac Studio, as … Read more
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Bitcoin Traders Watch Fed Chair Warsh for Clues—And Get Nothing
Fed Chair Warsh’s first Jackson Hole keynote doubled down on giving markets zero rate hints as inflation runs hot and Bitcoin traders wait on September’s call.
The Case for a Shared Operating Layer for AI Workflows
Building a second data pipeline is harder than building the first. Not because the engineering is harder, but because nothing from the first build transfers. The state machine is bespoke, the SLA tracking is bespoke, the feedback schema is bespoke. By the third pipeline, we’re maintaining three dashboards, three training data formats, and three definitions … Read more
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Crypto Biz: Bitcoin pumps, Wall Street does the paperwork
Bitcoin’s $80,000 rebound lifts crypto stocks as Circle, Strategy and Solana show how capital markets, stablecoins and onchain growth are driving crypto’s recovery.
Building Consistent AI Fashion Imagery for Product Catalogs
Fashion e-commerce has a content problem that does not look like a content problem until you try to scale it. Every SKU needs a packshot, an on-model shot, often several poses, and is refreshed every season. The traditional answer is a studio: models, a photographer, a stylist, retouching, and a turnaround measured in weeks. That … Read more
How LLM Agents Can Orchestrate Cybersecurity Response Workflows
Traditional cybersecurity tools often stop at detection and alerting, requiring human analysts to craft responses. Generative AI changes this paradigm by enabling systems that not only recognize threats but also autonomously plan and execute defensive actions. Modern large language models (LLMs) can analyze unusual activity and propose multi-step response strategies in real time. For example, … Read more
Institutions Won’t Adopt DeFi Until It Evolves to Meet Their Needs
Talk of institutional adoption of DeFi has been picking up pace in the last couple of years, but whereas before, the main conversations focused on matters of regulation, these days greater emphasis is being placed on infrastructure. And rightly so, in my opinion. It is certainly true that institutional actors prefer as much legal clarity … Read more
BitGo to buy NYDIG trading arm for $42.5M in cash and stock plus $15M earnout
The deal to buy NYDIG IF Holdings comprises $7 million in cash and around $35.5 million in stock, as well as the $15 earnout.
Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again
Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.
Ethereum ETFs Take $226M in a Day, Almost Matching Bitcoin’s Haul
Nine straight sessions have brought in $1.4 billion, with Thursday marking the funds’ strongest day in 10 months.
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh at Jackson Hole: ‘We have work to do’ on inflation
Warsh’s highly anticipated remarks at the Kansas City Fed’s annual symposium Friday morning leaned hawkish, prompting traders to quickly raise bets on a September rate hike.
The TechBeat: How I Built a Data Pipeline From Scratch Using Python (8/28/2026)
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. ## Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow By @efimovov_5guqm5 [ 9 Min read ] The nine layers of Claude Code only pay … Read more