Meta’s Chief Data Officer Says Agentic Commerce is the “Next Tier of Business”
Alex Schultz says stablecoins are assumed inside Meta. The harder problem is getting the rest of the world there.
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Kraken to overhaul app with AI investing assistant
The redesigned app will use AI to recommend trades and tailor investing tools around users’ financial goals as Kraken expands into broader financial services.
Senate Democrats call for hearings into Trump’s ties to crypto amid CLARITY Act discussions
Five senators called for committee hearings to investigate US President Donald Trump’s policies potentially being influenced by crypto funding from United Arab Emirates-linked and other entities.
87% of Companies Were Hit by an AI Cyber Attack. The Fix Is a Skills Problem, Not a Headcount One
For most of its history, cybersecurity has been a contest between human attackers and human defenders, throttled on both sides by how fast people can work. That throttle is gone. Over the past two years, generative AI crossed from the defender’s side of the table to the attacker’s and the economics of an attack changed … Read more
Democrats Call for Senate Hearings on Trump’s Massive Crypto Profits
Top Democrats on key Senate committees demanded inquiries into the more than $1.2 billion that President Trump made on crypto last year.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi’s senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.
218 Blog Posts To Learn About Aws Lambda
Let’s learn about Aws Lambda via these 218 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. Serverless computing. 1. Simple Steps to Avoid the Retry Behavior from AWS Lambda When a Lambda function invocation crashes due … Read more
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A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise
When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game’s 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it’s done. Almost 2,000 players (many of … Read more
US CBDC ban to go into effect without Trump signoff on housing bill
Donald Trump confirmed on social media that he would not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a ban on a US CBDC until the end of 2030, setting the stage for the bill to become law on Saturday.
ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting
Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting … Read more
Pace Layers: What Urban Planning Knows About Your Software Boundaries
A boundary rule stolen from urban planning: sort by rate of change, push irreversibility down, point dependencies at the slow layer. Architects across different subject areas – like civil engineers, urban planners, and hardware designers spent decades on problems we keep rediscovering every few years under new names. The habit of looking sideways at “older” … Read more
Bitcoin Treasury Firm Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half of BTC Holdings for $87 Million
Nasdaq-listed Empery Digital said it sold 1,400 Bitcoin since May to help fuel an AI data center deal, legal bills, and other expenses.
Xbox CEO Joins Fed AI Jobs Task Force Days After Announcing 3,200 Layoffs
Asha Sharma will advise the Federal Reserve on AI’s impact on jobs and productivity as Xbox undergoes the biggest restructuring in its history.
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.
Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung. | Image: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix – one of the world’s biggest suppliers of memory chips – launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba’s record as … Read more
New Hampshire council votes down $100M Bitcoin bonds
State representative Keith Ammon said the New Hampshire executive council’s vote against Bitcoin-backed bonds was “short-sighted,” urging the body to reconsider the measure.
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed
HyperTexting’s new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
Spotify will let you fine-tune your weekly Release Radar playlist
Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar – one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more. Listeners can choose from up to five options like … Read more
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China’s state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
Backpack joins race for 24/7 stock markets with tokenized equities
The launch comes as tokenized stocks become one of the fastest-growing corners of crypto, with exchanges and traditional finance firms racing to expand 24/7 trading.