The HackerNoon Newsletter: The System Didn’t Ask, It Just Made You Comply (8/30/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 30, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, John Mauchly Was Born in 1907, Telephone hotline Between Washington DC and Moscow Was Established in 1963, Guion Stewart Bluford was launched into Space in 1983, and we … Read more

An Inside Look at the Settlement Between X-Mode and the FTC

The location data broker X-Mode has agreed not to share sensitive location data as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which had accused the company of selling information that potentially revealed people’s visits to medical facilities, houses of worship, and businesses catering to LGTBQ+ communities. The settlement, which was announced this week, … Read more

Ethereum-Based Meme Project Pepeto ($PEPETO) Surges Past $6.5M In Presale

Dubai, UAE, August 29th, 2025/Chainwire/–Ethereum-based meme project Pepeto ($PEPETO) has raised over $6.5 million in its ongoing presale, with more than 40 billion tokens sold so far. The presale is taking place amid a broader 2025 trend of renewed activity in meme-themed digital assets, marked by increased social engagement and narrative-driven participation. While many expected … Read more

Here’s Why You Should Use Privacy Mode When You Browse the Web

The Gentle January series shares one practical privacy tip a day from a Markup staffer who actually uses the advice in their own life. The Markup’s editor-in-chief, Sisi Wei, already advised you to use a privacy-friendly browser. I’ve got another recommendation that is supported by basically any browser: browse in “private” or “incognito” mode. Various … Read more

How SCOR’s “Invitational” Event Is Changing Gaming Airdrops And What It Means For Players

SCOR is rolling out the SCOR Invitational on August 29, 2025. It is a pre-token event that asks players to commit the Gems they have earned inside SCOR’s Telegram mini app. The new SCOR Center is the place where players convert Gems to $SCOR at token generation, climb weekly leaderboards, and earn multipliers that apply … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: What Happens When Blockchain Becomes Mutable? (8/29/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 29, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The British Computer Misuse Act Went into Effect in 1990, Michael Faraday Discovered Electromagnetic Induction in 1831, Meitnerium was Synthesized for the First time in 1982, and we … Read more

How to Install and Use OpenAI’s Codex Agent in VS Code

This tutorial will guide you through the process of integrating OpenAI’s powerful Codex coding agent directly into your Visual Studio Code environment. This tool functions as an AI pair programmer, capable of understanding complex prompts to execute commands, write code, run tests, and even build entire applications from scratch. Before you begin, ensure you have the following: … Read more

Brain-Inspired AI: Early Results from a Radical New Neuron Model

How the foundational component of a new architecture for AI was forged, validated, and ultimately revealed the limits of standard benchmarks. This work represents a comprehensive research pipeline built from scratch, encompassing formal mathematical foundations, a PyTorch implementation, visualization tools, and systematic experimental validation across a series of experiments. The entire system is open-source, enabling … Read more

Inside Pudgy Party, How Web3 Could Reach Millions of Mobile Players Globally

Can a casual party game with penguin avatars make blockchain ownership useful for people who do not follow crypto? Pudgy Penguins and Mythical Games are launching Pudgy Party, a mobile party game that will go live on August 29 for iOS and Android. The title introduces Pudgy Penguins characters into short multiplayer mini-games, adding item ownership, trading, … Read more

How AI and Robotics Are Automating ATP Testing and Hygiene Monitoring

If you’ve ever wondered how hospitals ensure their rooms are clean, you’re not alone. Health care staff have relied on visual checks and occasional lab tests to validate cleaning for years. However, they have to deal with human error, slow turnaround times, and no clear standard for what “clean” really means. That’s where adenosine triphosphate … Read more

How Pre-Trained Vision Models Are Revolutionizing Anatomical Structure Retrieval

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Materials and Methods 2.1 Vector Database and Indexing 2.2 Feature Extractors 2.3 Dataset and Pre-processing 2.4 Search and Retrieval 2.5 Re-ranking retrieval and evaluation Evaluation and 3.1 Search and Retrieval 3.2 Re-ranking Discussion 4.1 Dataset and 4.2 Re-ranking 4.3 Embeddings 4.4 Volume-based, Region-based and Localized Retrieval and 4.5 … Read more

Why Crypto Adoption in Latin America Is Surging Faster Than in the US and Europe

How Is Latin America Becoming a Global Leader in Crypto Adoption? In recent years, Latin America has emerged as one of the fastest-growing regions for cryptocurrency adoption. From Argentina’s inflation-stricken economy to El Salvador’s experiment with Bitcoin as legal tender, the region presents a unique mix of economic necessity and technological opportunity. According to recent … Read more

Why Caladan’s Finery Markets Link Signals A Stablecoin-First, Multi-Venue Future For Crypto Trading

Are institutions moving from single exchange order books to networked routing, and does this integration mark that shift? Caladan has connected to Finery Markets to distribute prices across multiple venues in a non-custodial setup that supports RFQ, order book, and quote streams. That is a wiring decision, not marketing, and it coincides with a jump … Read more

Why One Small Parameter Can Make or Break Your Medical Image Retrieval

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Materials and Methods 2.1 Vector Database and Indexing 2.2 Feature Extractors 2.3 Dataset and Pre-processing 2.4 Search and Retrieval 2.5 Re-ranking retrieval and evaluation Evaluation and 3.1 Search and Retrieval 3.2 Re-ranking Discussion 4.1 Dataset and 4.2 Re-ranking 4.3 Embeddings 4.4 Volume-based, Region-based and Localized Retrieval and 4.5 … Read more

DreamSim and the Future of Embedding Models in Radiology AI

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Materials and Methods 2.1 Vector Database and Indexing 2.2 Feature Extractors 2.3 Dataset and Pre-processing 2.4 Search and Retrieval 2.5 Re-ranking retrieval and evaluation Evaluation and 3.1 Search and Retrieval 3.2 Re-ranking Discussion 4.1 Dataset and 4.2 Re-ranking 4.3 Embeddings 4.4 Volume-based, Region-based and Localized Retrieval and 4.5 … Read more

How to Create Purchase Order Lines in Oracle R12 (with PL/SQL Examples)

Creating Purchase Order lines in Oracle E-Business Suite R12 isn’t done with a single API call—you must use the Purchasing Documents Open Interface (PDOI). This tutorial walks you through the complete process: populating interface tables, linking headers, lines, shipments, and distributions, running the Import Standard Purchase Orders program (POXPOPDOI), and troubleshooting errors. With a full … Read more

AI Wrapper Apps Are the New Hypercasual

Mobile games is an industry that always finds a way to be exciting: Continuous changes in the user acquisition (UA) landscape, different genres rising & stagnating, regulatory changes, new players emerging… . My experience in the mobile gaming industry has allowed me to observe various industry cycles. On top of that, I was fortunate enough … Read more

Modulate’s New Voice Intelligence API: Smart Transcription, Emotion Detection & Deepfake Defense

In the last few years, there’s been a wave of interest in voice-based AI – whether to understand us human beings, or to interact with us directly. But organizations using this newest wave of AI face a challenge, because understanding voice is hard. We’ve spent years processing and analyzing real-world speech to give insights into … Read more