Early in my product career, I worked on a tool used by market participants to make daily operational decisions in U.S. electricity markets. One afternoon, a customer called – not because something had crashed, but because the product was behaving slightly differently than expected during a rare market condition. The numbers were technically correct. The … Read more
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting “red … Read more
A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York’s West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics, with cocktails, food, and networking throughout the night.
Rockstar has officially published its “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised. The in-depth preview, which “entirely” features footage captured from the PS5 version of the game, initially premiered on Netflix at 3PM ET. But because Rockstar allowed creators to post reaction videos, you’ve technically been able … Read more
I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its “extended look” of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that … Read more
Once you’re inside the crypto community, you’ll hear this everywhere: keep your private keys offline, take care of your own crypto, you’d better buy a hardware wallet. These small devices are designed to store your coins offline, far from hackers and exploits. But what happens if the hardware wallet company suddenly shuts down operations? There’s … Read more
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that “the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.” The company’s line of … Read more
Coding agents are getting very good at doing work. The part that still looks wrong to me is what happens between the steps: the system keeps rebuilding project state that already exists. A planner creates a plan. A coding worker changes the repository. A tester finds a regression. A reviewer makes a decision. Then the … Read more
Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.
The part nobody checks before self-hosting Picking an open-source observability tool for your LLM app usually starts the same way. You scan a “best of” list, you docker compose up whichever name comes up most, and within an afternoon you’re looking at real traces. The natural next step is building on top of it. You wire in … Read more
Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.
Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy trade-off built into the deal.
Let’s learn about Object Oriented Programming via these 58 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. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a paradigm based on the concept of ‘objects,’ which can contain data and code. It … Read more
The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms.
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup’s CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA – exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes. But everything just looks much better than previous entries, with impressive graphics, densely-packed rooms, and detailed environments. … Read more
Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their … Read more
The memory crisis just won’t quit. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store’s role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new … Read more
Our son was three days old, deeply yellow, and we were back in the emergency room. We’d had four tracking apps between us during his first days home. Every one of them could log a feed. Not one of them looked at the pattern. The colostrum he wasn’t getting enough of, the diaper count dropping … Read more
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The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a “major incident” involving its cybersecurity.