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Month: August 2026
AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler’s Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back
Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.
Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account
You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also choose whether … Read more
The Creator Economy Is Bigger Than Hollywood: Here’s Why
Hollywood has been the stuff that dreams have been made of for more than a century and a quarter now. It has given us epic movies, larger-than-life film stars and directors, and elevated the age-old art of storytelling into a spectacular audiovisual extravaganza. From cowboy westerns and Biblical tales to war movies and from classics … Read more
OpenAI Dumps Apple Employees’ Text Messages to Fight Trade Secret Suit
The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple’s lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.
Ledger Says Coldcard Exploit Shows Bitcoin Wallet Security Must Adapt to AI
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet says the Coldcard exploit underscores why certified hardware randomness matters—and why AI is reshaping wallet security.
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are.
AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD’s data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That’s up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. At the same time, AMD’s gaming revenue fell 31 … Read more
SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company
SpaceX’s AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX’s quarterly earnings. The AI division, which the company said in its documents to go public was the source of most of its … Read more
Jim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over Quantum Threat—Crypto Twitter Is Thrilled
The CNBC host announced the decision on air after interviewing IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, asking him whether quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting his coins.
SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
Police Have Arrested 37 Americans Over AI Data Center Protests This Year
Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.
Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users’ location data when they grant permission to the app.
SpaceX tops Wall Street revenue forecast, posts $540 million loss on bitcoin holdings
Elon Musk’s space company posted its first earnings as a public company ahead of a major insider share unlock.
EA is now a private company
Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners would be taking the company private in a $55 billion deal, and on Tuesday, EA said the deal successfully closed. The PIF will reportedly own 93.4 … Read more
ChangeNOW and CoinRabbit Release Joint Research on Financial Privacy in Digital Assets
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 4th, 2026/Chainwire/–The new report maps the illicit and legitimate uses of crypto privacy tools, drawing on data from TRM Labs, Chainalysis, the RAND Corporation, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Statista, and U.S. Treasury Department disclosures. It argues that the current regulatory focus is aimed … Read more
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
235 Blog Posts To Learn About Go
Let’s learn about Go via these 235 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Go is an open-source programming language developed by Google, known for its simplicity, efficiency, and strong support for concurrent programming. Go … Read more
This C++ Refactor Cut the Code in Half and Made It Faster
I stumbled upon a C++ function that will be a really illustrative example of how refactoring can both shorten and optimize code. Today, we’ll need to dust off our human brains in the era of vibe coding and recall what it’s like to know what the good is and what the bad is—after all, someone … Read more
US, UK reaffirm support for stablecoins, tokenization in joint financial regulation talks
In a July 8 meeting, US and UK regulators highlighted the implementation of the GENIUS Act, payment modernization and cross-border cooperation, reinforcing a shared framework for digital asset oversight.
Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
Airlock Digital Unveils Agentic AI Control And Governance To Extend Preventative Endpoint Security
Atlanta, GA, August 4th, 2026/CyberNewswire/–Airlock Digital, a leader in preventative endpoint security, today announced Agentic AI Control & Governance at Black Hat USA 2026. The new capabilities build on application control by providing command- and session-level visibility into trusted AI agent behavior, centralized policy management for trusted applications and AI agents, and real-time governance over … Read more
Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Explained: Entropy, How Keys Are Generated, and Why Bits Matter
A flaw in Coldcard wallets cost Bitcoin holders more than $100 million—and reopened an old fight about whether you can trust dice.
Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple’s App Store on Monday night. “Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us,” Durov says in a post on X. “This creates a potential systemic risk for … Read more