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The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Coding Tools Are Still in the RD Stage (2/11/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 11, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From How Blockchain Became Myanmar’s Secret Weapon Against a Totalitarian Regime to Before AI Predicts Your Next Friend, It Needs … Read more

Apple reportedly partners with Alibaba after rejecting DeepSeek for China AI launch

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According to a report published Tuesday by The Information, Apple is partnering Alibaba to bring its Apple Intelligence platform to China. The deal is said to arrive after the iPhone maker reportedly explored – but ultimately rejected – a potential partnership with uber-buzzy AI startup, DeepSeek, as well as with Bytedance. Apple initially selected Baidu … Read more

Chalkboards & Code—Remixing the Digital Classroom

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:::info Authors: (1) Florian Gnadlinger, Faculty of Computer Science, Communication, and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany; (2) Simone Kriglstein, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Methode & Results 4 Discussion 5 Conclusion and References Abstract: This contribution draws attention to implications … Read more

Before AI Predicts Your Next Friend, It Needs to Do This First

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In this post we’ll continue working on link prediction with the Twitch dataset: we’ll export the graph data from the Neptune DB cluster to an S3 bucket using the neptune-export utility provided by AWS. We’ll choose the ‘neptune_ml’ profile when we create the data export task and the utility will create the ‘training-data-configuration.json’ file that … Read more

BuzzFeed is taking on Instagram, TikTok, X with a new social platform designed to spread ‘joy’ 

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BuzzFeed, the media site known for its celebrity news and quizzes, announced on Tuesday that it’s developing its own social media platform in a move to counter the current negativity on the internet. Semafor first reported BuzzFeed’s plan for the platform this past week. Details on the new platform are not yet public. However, the … Read more

What’s Better Than CEX? DEX

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When it comes to trading memecoins, time is money — and waiting on a centralized exchange (CEX) could cost you both. Take $TRUMP, for example. On Jan. 17, 2025, just before his inauguration, Donald Trump launched his memecoin on Solana, which surged past a $14.5 billion peak market cap on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like Raydium … Read more

AI chatbots are distorting news stories, BBC finds

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AI chatbots struggle with factual inaccuracies and distortions when summarizing news stories, research from the BBC has found. The study, which examined whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity can accurately summarize news, found more than half of all the AI-generated output had “significant issues of some form.” As part of the study, … Read more

Donald Trump reignites the lightbulb wars

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President Donald Trump wants to make America incandescent again. He posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he plans to end Biden-era standards for lightbulbs that accelerated the adoption of LED lighting. According to that post, he’ll direct his appointee Lee Zeldin to “go back to the common sense standards,” for lightbulbs. Zeldin … Read more

BYD to offer Tesla-like driver assist, even on its cheapest models 

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Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled “God’s Eye,” an advanced driver assistance system that will be install on its entire model lineup, including its $9,600 Seagull hatchback.  BYD founder Wang Chuanfu said at a live streamed event Monday that “we’re entering an era where autonomous driving is for everyone,” according to The Financial Times.  God’s … Read more

Pinkfish helps enterprises build AI agents through natural language processing

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As the chief product officer for AI customer service startup TalkDesk, Charanya “CK” Kannan said that enterprises often say they want to automate different workflows but that it’s really hard to implement AI. Enterprises are dealing with clunky, legacy software, that often doesn’t have APIs, creating a daunting task their IT departments weren’t prioritizing. “Every … Read more

Gcore Radar Report Reveals 56% Year-on-Year Increase In DDoS Attacks

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LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, February 11th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2024 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented scale and disruption in 2024, and businesses need to act fast to protect themselves from this evolving threat. The report reveals … Read more

Lido Goes Modular With Vault-Based ‘V3’ Upgrade

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The developers behind Lido, the largest staking service on Ethereum, have proposed revamping the staking platform with modular “vaults.” The new framework would introduce stVaults, a customizable component designed to help Lido accommodate institutions and more complex staking strategies. Lido currently allows investors to pool their ether (ETH) together and “stake” their crypto — locking … Read more