Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Month: September 2026
Gemini 4 Is Here, and Google’s Flagship Tops All Other AI Models on Cybersecurity
Gemini 4 Argon tops 12 of 18 benchmarks in Google’s own table, writes a million tokens per reply and resists hijacking best. Cyber defenders get it first, with the guardrails off.
The new and huger Paramount has a new co-CEO
Paramount is appointing a new co-CEO ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ynon Kreiz, previously Mattel’s chairman and CEO, will be joining Paramount to lead alongside chairman and CEO David Ellison. According to Paramount, “Ellison will focus on the company’s long-term strategy, creative vision and direction, including its … Read more
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk’s and Luckey’s companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
EDG C++ Compiler is open source
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My App Was Rejected By the App Store Six Times: It’s Finally Live
Buildhorn is finally live! Get it on the App Store to receive failure alerts from your CI builds. Eight weeks into Shipaton, this week covers more tips for working through the App Review process, launching the Buildhorn website, and testing the app on the iPhone Duo simulator. Note: This is the 8th post about my … Read more
Coping is the Problem
One of the principles that has stuck with me ever since I read The Systems Bible by John Gall is: The problem isn’t the problem, coping is the problem. This principle encourages designing systems that continue functioning even when a component of the system fails. By way of example, let’s consider HTTP requests. When an … Read more
Dogecoin Is Getting Apps as DogeOS Opens Its Public Testnet
The team behind the MyDoge wallet opened a public test of DogeOS, a layer that lets developers build lending platforms and games on top of the meme coin network.
Building Reliable Systems at Scale: Sai Joshitha Kathari on SRE, Kubernetes, and Women in Tech
HackerNoon editorial team has launched this interview series with women in tech to celebrate their achievements and share their struggles. We need more women in technology, and by sharing stories, we can encourage many girls to follow their dreams. Share your story today! Tell us about yourself! I’m Sai Joshitha Kathari, and I work as … Read more
Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon’s Contributor Vladimir Sinitsyn, SEO Practitioner and Researcher
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. My name is Vladimir Sinitsyn. I am an SEO practitioner, researcher, and entrepreneur. I … Read more
A $299 Million Sports Week: The Other Side
This week’s Prediction Frontier letter turns to sports. They accounted for $299.3 million, more than half of Polymarket’s on-chain trading, from September 14–20. Esports added another $77.4 million. That much trading needs someone willing to take the other side of each order. Flutter, FanDuel’s parent, sees a business there: the company expects about $50 million … Read more
FBI Tells Its Employees to Assume Hackers Have Their Personal Data
An internal memo warned FBI staff that ShinyHunters, the group claiming it hacked the bureau’s jobs site, may hold their private details.
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Standard Chartered sees Ethena’s USDe reaching $40B, ENA hitting $2
The bank also expects Ethena’s ENA token to rise roughly sevenfold to $2 by the end of 2028 as USDe scales and token buybacks increase.
Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie
A24 pissed off one of the internet’s largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn’t bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by … Read more
Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it’s calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers “frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense,” according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at … Read more
Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition
VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.
Coinbase-Backed Crypto Group Reveals Midterm Endorsements After Clarity Act Collapse
The Coinbase-backed group’s first Senate endorsements—Republicans Jon Husted and Ashley Hinson and Democrat Chris Pappas—come two weeks after the Clarity Act’s collapse, as the industry’s fight shifts to the campaign trail.
Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are investors betting so big on this category? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, … Read more
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Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps
The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has started hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash’s Ironwood pool, after Near Intents turned their swaps away.
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
EDG C++ front-end goes public
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DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.
The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
US Government’s New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret
Ask the U.S. government’s new AI chatbot about Minecraft and it produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game’s ending poem. It’s an easter egg, not a hallucination.
Crypto advocacy group announces picks for US Congress as midterms loom
The organization’s endorsements in the House and Senate came as many polls showed Democrats favored to regain control of both chambers in 2027.