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Unlocking the future of professional services: How Proofpoint uses Amazon Q Business

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This post was written with Stephen Coverdale and Alessandra Filice of Proofpoint. At the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, Proofpoint has redefined its professional services by integrating Amazon Q Business, a fully managed, generative AI powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on your enterprise data. … Read more

Enhancing LLM accuracy with Coveo Passage Retrieval on Amazon Bedrock

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This post is co-written with Keith Beaudoin and Nicolas Bordeleau from Coveo. As generative AI transforms business operations, enterprises face a critical challenge: how can they help large language models (LLMs) provide accurate and trustworthy responses? Without reliable data foundations, these AI models can generate misleading or inaccurate responses, potentially reducing user trust and organizational … Read more

Sports streaming hub Streameast ‘shut down’ in sting

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Some Streameast sites still appear to be live. Streameast, one of the largest sports piracy platforms in the world, has been shut down according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an antipiracy group that counts NBC Universal, Netflix, and Disney among its members. ACE announced in a statement that it worked alongside Egyptian … Read more

Stellar Upgrade Triggers Trading Pauses on Major Exchanges, XLM Faces Resistance

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South Korean crypto exchange Upbit temporarily suspended trading in Stellar’s XLM token on Tuesday, a precautionary move as the Stellar network readies for its Protocol 23 upgrade. The scheduled modernization, set for Sept. 3, is expected to enhance scalability and accelerate transaction speeds, prompting several exchanges to adopt stability measures during the transition. XLM traded … Read more

The Protocol: Solana Community Approves Alpenglow Upgrade

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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. In this issue: Solana Set for Major Overhaul After 98% Votes to Approve Historic ‘Alpenglow’ Upgrade Ethereum Foundation to Unload Another 10K ETH Following SharpLink Deal ‘OP_CAT Isn’t My Invention. It’s Satoshi’s,’ … Read more

BNB Gains 1.5% as Corporate Accumulation Eyes Larger Share of Supply

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BNB rose nearly 1.5% in the last 24-hour period to test the $860 mark and is at near multisession highs after breaking key resistance zones in the upward move. The move came on unusually strong buying pressure in the most recent hour of trading, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. Volume surged to 49,560 tokens, about … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How AI Reasoning Mirrors Borges Library of Babel (9/3/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, September 3, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Treaty of Paris in 1783, eBay Founded, Revolutionizes Online Commerce in 1995, Qatar’s Independence in 1971, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Vibe Coding … Read more

Studies Show AI Agents and Browsers Are a Hacker’s Perfect Playground

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During a late-night red team exercise, researchers watched a customer’s autonomous browser-based AI agent casually leak the CTO’s credentials. The trigger was nothing more than a single malicious div tag hidden inside an internal GitHub issue page. The agent was running on Browser Use — an open-source framework that recently raised $17 million in a … Read more

Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later

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After years of requests from users, Instagram will finally have a dedicated app for iPad. Beginning Wednesday, September 3rd, users will be able to download the new app built specifically for Apple’s tablet. But it will be slightly different than the mobile app users are accustomed to. Most significantly, the iPad app will open directly … Read more

SOLANA HITS $211 & OUTPREFORMS CRYPTO MAJORS!

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SOL begins to outperform again in majors, nears $212. SEC, CFTC give guidance for crypto adoption. Strategy buys $449m BTC. Metaplanet to raise $3.8b pref stocks to buy BTC. BMNR buys 17k more ETH, 39k ETH in last week. ETHZilla to deploy $100m in ETH with EtherFi. ETH Foundation to sell 10k ETH. ETH staking … Read more

Etherealize Raises $40M to Bring Ethereum to Wall Street

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Etherealize, a startup developing infrastructure to help Wall Street institutions adopt Ethereum, has raised $40 million in Series A funding, co‑led by Electric Capital and Paradigm. The new capital builds on an earlier grant from Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation and will help fund Etherealize’s push to develop zero‑knowledge privacy systems, settlement engines, and … Read more