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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
San Francisco’s housing market is in trouble again.
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Jeff Bezos is reportedly close to buying his first stake in a sports team: the U.K.’s famed Liverpool Football Club.
Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlayer
This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It’s a seller- and buyer-beware market warning.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he’d used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he’d hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, “Do cool shit.” I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What … Read more
Nothing Has Changed: Why the Questions We Ask Still Decide What Is True
AI has multiplied the volume of information available to us. It has not changed how we separate truth from noise. The questions we ask still determine the answers we get — that discipline sits with the asker, not the tool, and it always has. This is worth saying plainly because the current mood suggests otherwise. … Read more
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
California’s Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s billionaires.
Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20
Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter can power up to five devices at once. | Image: Anker If you’ve got international travel coming up, an adapter is essential for keeping your phone, earbuds, power banks, and other gadgets charged. Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter is one of our picks from our guide to the best gadgets for summer … Read more
24 Billion Stolen Passwords in One Database: Inside the Industrial Infostealer Economy
In June 2026, researchers at Cybernews found a single, publicly exposed Elasticsearch database holding more than 24 billion stolen credential records — over 8.3 terabytes of usernames, email addresses, plaintext passwords, login URLs, and source tags. It was not a new breach. It was a consolidation: the aggregated output of years of infostealer infections, prior … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the “personal superintelligence” systems Meta AI is building.
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym’s reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class’ waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
217 Blog Posts To Learn About Ios App Development
Let’s learn about Ios App Development via these 217 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. Developing apps for iOS can be tricky. That’s why we have these handy articles to help out. 1. Smoke … Read more
Echovane Raises $1M to Run Market Research To Answer The Big Questions for P&G, Haleon & Kantar
Market research exists to make companies faster and the machinery of it has spent forty years making them slower. A single ambitious study at a consumer goods company can combine qualitative and quantitative methods, narrow participant criteria, observation, longitudinal fieldwork and multiple countries, all chained to a launch deadline, and running it means assembling a … Read more
Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow
Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don’t care about. If you follow me, I may be that … Read more
Costco’s great Switch 2 console bundle includes over $100 in free stuff
Games look gorgeous on its 7.9-inch screen. | Photo: Brandt Ranj / The Verge The cost of the Nintendo Switch 2 is going up by $50 on September 1st, 2026, resulting in a $499.99 price tag for just the console. We’re just weeks away, but Costco is offering a fantastic $499.99 bundle for its members … Read more
Whose Memory Is It? Building Multi-Tenant, Multi-Tier Memory for AI Agents (Part 2)
This is a 4-part series on how agents remember: building short-, medium- and long-term memory that scales across users, agents, and kubernetes clusters. Alice and bob are talking to the same agents. Alice interacts with various agents for infra management. Bob interacts with various agents for app development. Both are able to build on learnings … Read more
Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android to competing app stores.
Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.
YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money
Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
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Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises
Clicks’ $99 Power Keyboard brings a customizable, slide-out physical keyboard to MagSafe and Qi2 smartphones, but its added heft can make larger phones awkward to use.
What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
It’s that time of year: On Wednesday, Google is set to host its annual Made by Google hardware launch event for Pixel gadgets. Google itself has already teased new slab-style and foldable Pixel smartphones, but leaks also indicate that the company could announce updated watches, a new color for familiar earbuds, and perhaps a brand … Read more
YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube
Starting February 1st, 2027, creators who want to monetize their channel through YouTube’s Partner Program (YPP) will need at least 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. That’s a sizeable jump from YouTube’s current requirement of 1,000 subscribers with … Read more