Ethena’s ENA token surges 48%, but altcoin season will have to wait
ENA is rallying on a $1 billion FalconX deal, while HYPE tests its record, though flat dominance shows this is no broad alt season.
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Built a Data Pipeline From Scratch Using Python (8/21/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 21, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Burroughs Received Patent for Calculating Machine in 1888, NASA lost communication with the Mars Observer almost a year after its launch in 1993, Android version 8.0 (Oreo) was … Read more
US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities
The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company — or a group of companies — in the electric and autonomous vehicle industries.
How I Built a Data Pipeline From Scratch Using Python
You spent three hours debugging a broken ETL script, your data is sitting in five different places in five different formats, and the stakeholder meeting is tomorrow morning. If you’ve ever stared at a pile of raw CSVs, API responses, and database dumps wondering how to wire it all into something that actually works reliably, … Read more
Your Screenplay Isn’t Too Vague for a Director, but It Is for an AI Model
I had a page from Lost Garden, my AI anime series, that read fine on paper. One line said the heroine was torn between trusting the stranger and running. Any script reader would get that instantly. A generation model turned it into a woman standing still, doing nothing, wearing an expression that could mean anything … Read more
Crypto Biz: Treasury’s ‘Not-QE’ playbook sends Bitcoin higher
Bitcoin rallied as Treasury bond buybacks fueled the “not-QE” trade, while Metaplanet expanded to the US and Cypherpunk made a $33 million Zcash mining bet.
XRP Erases Its Most Bearish Signal—And the Ripple-Linked Coin Is Flying
The token spent all August trapped under a bearish crossover. Today it closed above both moving averages for the first time since the pattern formed.
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How CertiK Found Five Vulnerabilities in Besu and Got Them Fixed in a Fortnight
Denial of service is the least fashionable category in security because nothing is stolen and nothing is forged and the report at the end of it reads like a capacity planning memo rather than a crime scene. On most infrastructure that reputation is deserved, since a process that exhausts its heap will trip a pager … Read more
Bitcoin Climbs Higher as $1.2 Billion in Shorts Liquidated
The largest cryptocurrency surged 7.9% in a day to around $77,000, triggering a short squeeze that wiped out roughly $1.21 billion in bearish bets amid a wave of favorable news from Washington.
AI Code Review: If AI Writes the Code, How Do We Review It at Scale?
AI code review is a dedicated verification discipline — not a feature of your generation tool. Understanding what it analyzes, where it fits in your SDLC, and how to evaluate tools on rigorous benchmarks is what separates teams that ship confidently from teams that ship fast and fix later. Key Takeaway AI code review is … Read more
Why does it seem like food recalls are out of control this year?
Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry Services, were distributed to Kroger and smaller grocery stores across the South and Southwest … Read more
Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy
The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages.
Google’s Pixel 10A is a great deal at 15 percent off
The Pixel 10A in its lavender color scheme. It’s also available at a discount in berry, fog, and obsidian colors. | Image: The Verge This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and starting 12GB RAM as the standard model, … Read more
Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay
Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Morning Minute: CFTC Will Give Crypto Clarity If Congress Won’t
Meanwhile crypto majors and alts continue to soar, with BTC nearing $80k and alts like Pump and ZEC putting up big candles.
I Turned My iOS Memory Game Into a Physical Board for Shipaton
Adversary is a memory matching game with one change to the usual formula: hidden among the matching pairs is a Danger card that can mess up your round. Since I started building it for Shipaton, I’ve been trying to share the decisions behind the game rather than only showing the finished product. In my first article, … Read more
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
There’s about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
Tesla recalls 3 million cars as part of China-wide push to stop hidden door handles
Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual door releases.
Solana cuts blockchain slot time to 350 milliseconds
Solana reduced its slot time for the first time since genesis as it works toward a 200-millisecond target aimed at reducing network latency.
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam “Kold” Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what’s possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield’s recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, … Read more
Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants
The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial companies.
Blue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in January
“I choose revenge.” | Image: Netflix Good news for Blue Eye Samurai fans: Netflix has shared the first trailer and release timeline for the second season of the animated series, and confirmed the series’ return for a third and final season. The second season’s new teaser ends with the announcement that it’ll be available to … Read more
Laser Digital gets Japan’s first crypto exchange approval in 4 years
Nomura-backed Laser Digital Japan received registration to provide domestic liquidity before expanding into institutional crypto trading.
Senator asks US government watchdog to review how feds use hacking tools
Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. federal watchdog requesting a comprehensive review of how the FBI, DEA, ICE’s HSI, and the Secret Service use hacking tools and spyware against Americans.