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The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.
Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI
Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter “Magnifica humanitas” on May 25, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican. | Getty Images Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope’s manifesto on “safeguarding the … Read more
Meet Prnews.io: HackerNoon Company of the Week
We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike. This week, we are proud to present PRNews.io, the world’s first sponsored content … Read more
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.
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2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
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GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
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Magnifica Humanitas
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Every New Project Shouldn’t Feel Like Starting From Zero
Every production engineering team knows the pattern. A new project begins with energy. Product goals are clear. Deadlines are ambitious. Teams want to move quickly and deliver something customers can use. Then the real work starts. Infrastructure must be provisioned. CI/CD pipelines need to be set up. Secrets require management. Monitoring needs wiring. Databases need … Read more
Companies Pay YouTube to Show Ads While Users Pay to Escape Them
YouTube has built a perfectly elegant economy where corporations pay to interrupt you, and you pay to not be interrupted. It’s extortion. It’s genius. It’s somehow both. By A Deeply Concerned Human Companies pay YouTube billions to force ads in front of viewers, while viewers pay YouTube monthly fees to avoid seeing those same ads. … Read more
What is Predictive Software Quality? Software Operations in the AI Era
Enterprise engineering teams face a widening gap between speed and reliability. Codebases are sprawling, AI now generates a significant share of code, and release cycles move faster than QA can keep up. The backlog is longer than ever, tests fail to find the most challenging edge-cases and firefighting drains time from innovation. Our systems and … Read more
When the Gravity Gates Opened at Windy Corner
:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. A ROOM WITH A VIEW – Chapter VIII – Medieval Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001: A ROOM WITH A VIEW – Chapter VIII – Medieval By E. … Read more
New Research on Cloud Database Cost and Migration Trends
Good enough until it isn’t: the database complacency trap A database is like a water heater. When all is well, it just does its job in the background. You don’t fantasize about replacing it or envy the one your friend just got. Really, you don’t even think about it — until something goes awry. But … Read more
C array types are weird
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Jira Is Turing-Complete
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Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google
We’re in the transition period — all of us.
Every Microsoft 365 AI Agent Solves a Different Problem
You’ll likely find artificial intelligence (AI) agents appearing everywhere. These AI agents appear in your Teams sidebar, in your SharePoint document library, and as part of standard Office applications. What makes this so easy is that Microsoft allows virtually anyone within an organization to create their own dedicated AI agent in a matter of a … Read more
Is AI Really Delivering the ROI Companies Were Promised?
The whole rationale behind deploying AI to the extent that it threatens to decimate whole professions is premised on the fact that it leads to much enhanced productivity, reduced costs, and unprecedented profits. In other words, much more ROI or return on investment than would accrue if humans were employed to carry out the same … Read more
6 Open-Source Frameworks Built for High-Load Applications
Building an application that handles a few hundred requests per minute is relatively straightforward. Building a system that maintains single-digit millisecond latency while handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent requests—all without exploding your cloud budget—is an entirely different engineering challenge. When your application outgrows standard architectures, lightweight frameworks like Express.js and Flask can require significant … Read more