The HackerNoon Newsletter: Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed (2/7/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ What’s happening in tech today, February 7, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Hackers Are Becoming a Rarer Breed to This Small Change Makes AI Models Smarter on Unfamiliar Data, let’s dive … Read more

Maximize Profits in Perpetual DEX Trading With This Guide

Did you know that trading volume on DEXs surpassed $3.25 trillion last year? The main reason is that crypto traders are demanding safer alternatives to centralized exchanges, making mastering efficient DEX trading more crucial than ever. :::warning This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are speculative, complex, and … Read more

Mentions of trans kids scrubbed from national child safety clearinghouse website

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a child safety nonprofit that works closely with the government and major tech platforms, has recently removed publications that reference queer and transgender children from its website. The removals come amid reports that NCMEC was ordered to cull mentions of LGBTQ+ issues under threat of losing … Read more

PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development

The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to serve useful output. So think tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, which present the user with a blank field … Read more

Space IT Could Have a Wild Future Thanks to AI

In recent years, the application of power systems and automation systems technologies to the space industry has become increasingly relevant. After participating in various events and sessions dedicated to commercial space, I decided to conduct a study on the development potential of the space industry based on modern technical solutions. The active growth of projects … Read more

Google faked Gemini AI output in Super Bowl ad

Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but the text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business’s website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived … Read more

What Blockchain Inscriptions Mean for Gas Fees and Transactions

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions and Contributions Related Work Background Inscriptions and ordinals 4.1 Operation Types 4.2 Comparison with NFTs and ERC-20s Data Collection Empirical Analysis and 6.1 Overall Transactions 6.2 Inscriptions Characterization 6.3 Inscription Trading 6.4 Impact on Gas Fees Discussion Conclusion and References 8 Conclusion The inscriptions boom … Read more

Pinterest lists DEI attacks as possible business risk in latest filing

Pinterest listed the latest attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a possible business risk in its latest 10-K filing.  The company wrote in its filing to investors that if its efforts around DEI “are perceived as insufficient or overdone,” then it “may not be able to attract and retain talent” and that the company … Read more