UAE-linked ADI Chain gains Ledger support amid stablecoin growth
The integration gives ADI token holders access to Ledger’s self-custody platform as ADI Chain expands its stablecoin and tokenized asset network.
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Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones
An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices – despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would pay a total … Read more
We Moved a 10-Year-Old Monolith to AWS. Here’s What Actually Happened.
How a decade-old monolith became a liability—and what it took to decompose it into microservices without burning everything down.
AI Won’t Eat Your Job First. It Will Eat Your Software
By Alexander Volchek This essay grew out of several recent conversations on ToTheMoon, the YouTube channel where we discuss AI and technology markets. It is not a recap of an episode. It is the one line I keep coming back to after using Codex, CRM data, agents, AI shopping, and a few pieces of extremely … Read more
Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon’s Contributor Vineet Vijay, Lead AI Engineer
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 Vineet Vijay, and I work as a Lead AI Engineer, where … Read more
With Central Bank’s Blessing, Georgia Taps Tether for ‘Official’ Stablecoin
Tether plans to issue a stablecoin in Georgia with support from the country’s government, marking a new frontier for the crypto giant.
Crypto PAC money pours into Texas primary runoffs, as prediction markets favor challengers
The crypto-aligned Protect Progress PAC reported spending another $750,000 on media for a Democratic candidate over Representative Al Green, whom it described as “actively hostile” to digital assets.
NEAR price rally gains momentum as cross-chain product activity fuels further 15% jump
The rally is fueled by NEAR Intents, the cross-chain system that has processed over $19 billion in volume and generated $32 million in fees.
Perplexity Built a Tool That Checks Your Computer for Infected Software—Without Setting Off the Infection
Bumblebee scans developer machines for compromised packages and AI tool configs. Its core trick: It never actually runs the code it’s looking for.
Indonesia blocks Polymarket, calling prediction market online gambling in disguise
Authorities stated that using crypto or blockchain doesn’t change platforms that let users wager on uncertain outcomes from being gambling products.
Bitcoin, crypto prices tick up as US-Iran peace deal odds climb
Iranian negotiators arrived in Doha for talks, focusing on the Strait of Hormuz and highly enriched uranium, as Pakistan and Qatar are mediating.
Developers Are Entering the Era of Steering and Orchestration
The Developers are Confused! Developers have never been this confused about their own profession. I keep seeing wildly different takes: A manager mandating that AI must write over 70% of all code Developers writing code by hand, then using AI only for unit tests Someone getting offended in a job interview when asked if they’ve … Read more
Vitalik Buterin Signals Shift to ‘Smaller Ship’ at Ethereum Foundation Amid Departures
Buterin revealed that 90% of his net worth is tied up in Ethereum.
What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work
The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.
AI Coding Tools Are Creating Systems Nobody Fully Understands
AI coding tools are real productivity multipliers — and they are also accelerating a form of technical debt that most organizations aren’t measuring. The core problem isn’t code quality; it’s the widening gap between the volume of code that exists and the volume that anyone actually understands. AI optimizes for local correctness.
XRP price in ‘value zone’ near $1.40 as whales pull $170M from exchanges
Whales withdrew $170 million in XRP from Binance as the price holds a key $1.35-$1.40 accumulation and support zone.
The Stock Market Is Going Crazy… and Claude Is Pulling the Strings While Sipping Tea
The stock market is going crazy – and it’s not because of AI chatbots. It’s because of what’s powering them. Welcome to the real AI revolution: chips, data centres, and the invisible systems behind it all.
Buterin says Ethereum Foundation will shrink, sell less ETH, and focus on ‘CROPS’
Buterin’s influence in the EF will decrease as the board expands. He framed the EF as “one node, with a defined purpose,” not the center of Ethereum.
The Mathematics Of Systematic Capital Expropriation
This article argues that traditional cross-border investment structures fail because they rely too heavily on interpersonal trust instead of engineered governance systems. Framing international finance as a security architecture problem, it proposes mechanisms like offshore holding structures, milestone-gated escrows, multi-signature controls, real-time operational auditing, and blockchain-based smart contracts as ways to reduce fraud, administrative capture, … Read more
CoinQuant introduces trading infrastructure for the agent economy
CoinQuant, the AI-powered no-code trading platform that has attracted over 15,000 users since launch, today announces its expansion into a unified trading intelligence architecture built for both human traders and autonomous AI agents.
Squid and Safe Labs say third-party module behind $3.2M exploit
A third-party module drained about $3 million from Safe wallets, with Squid attributing the incident to an external Safe module, saying its core systems were unaffected.
This 2-Step LLM Gate Pattern Makes RAG Systems Faster and Cheaper
RAG is powerful. But like any powerful tool, the problem isn’t whether to use it — it’s when to use it. I’ve seen too many agentic pipelines that blindly trigger a semantic search on every single user query. The user says “thanks” and the system dutifully fires off an embedding call, scans a 10-million-document vector … Read more
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.
Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI
Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter “Magnifica humanitas” on May 25, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican. | Getty Images Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope’s manifesto on “safeguarding the … Read more
Pope Leo Releases First AI Encyclical, Calls Data a Common Good and Rejects Moral Neutrality of Tech
The 245-paragraph document was presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, whose company is actively suing the Trump administration over military AI use.
Meet Prnews.io: HackerNoon Company of the Week
We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike. This week, we are proud to present PRNews.io, the world’s first sponsored content … Read more
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.