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Building CLARO showed how shadow prices and constraint analysis can make marketing budget recommendations easier to understand and challenge.

Reduce SSP auction latency by precomputing slow-changing rules, separating configuration from execution, and managing freshness explicitly.

9/18/2026: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!

How AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Yandex Neuro choose companies for recommendations — and what GEO can do to improve AI visibility.

The goal was to eliminate the repetitive work between writing an email and sending it.

A reflection on gatekeepers, from our households, through Silicon Valley to open source, startup selection, and the rise of AI agents.

Better models require less prompt engineering per task, but they also unlock higher-value results that sophisticated prompting can reach

Explore how generative AI supports enterprise refactoring, testing and CI/CD, and why validation and engineering oversight remain essential.

TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets close enough.

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to […]

It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in […]

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will report directly to recently […]

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing nondisclosure agreements […]

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.  Watch […]

An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point.

Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.

Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.

How an edge reverse proxy uses fixed-memory sketches to survive infinite-cardinality attacks, credential abuse, and runaway agent loops. In Part 1 , we explored Interpreted Decay — calculating recency-weighted frequency on-the-fly at read time ( count >> age ) in a single 64-bit word. In Part 2 , we looked under the hood at atomic Compare-And-Swap (CAS) state transitions, bit-chipping eviction lotteries, and sub-35ns multi-core scaling. Data structures prove their real value wh...

TL;DR Conventional cloud platforms had to serve everyone, and they became bloated with features. Chasing the next big thing, they abandoned any attempt at improving developer experience, which is the reason clouds blew up in the first place. Big tech companies have the money to pay for DevOps. The rest of us have to choose between wasting developer time on it or delegating it to an AI agent that can't be held responsible when it all comes crashing down. You can rent a plain VM...

When developers first add VAT to an ecommerce or SaaS product, the problem can look surprisingly small: Find the customer's country. Look up the VAT rate. Multiply the price by that percentage. Done. That works until the first real edge cases arrive. What product was sold? Was the displayed price VAT-inclusive? Which country actually has taxing rights? Was this transaction created today or six months ago? Is it a refund of an older sale? Which rate was used when the or...

OpenAI may be limiting which AI companies can advertise inside ChatGPT. According to reporting from The Information , OpenAI told advertising partners that campaigns promoting standalone image-generation and audio-generation products would no longer be approved for ChatGPT ads. Adobe was reportedly among the affected advertisers. The reported change has not been announced in a public OpenAI policy update or press release. That distinction matters: there is a credible indication of a partner-...

What if you could build interactive web interfaces in Dart , without writing a separate JavaScript UI layer? What if the server could define not only the initial HTML, but also the UI behavior that should happen when the user interacts with that HTML? A new approach is now available for Dart. WebForms Core (WFC) is now available for Dart. WebForms Core is a server-side UI manipulation technology created by Elanat . It allows server-side code to generate commands for manipulating ...

So I had this domain, anotherexample.com for 20+ years and never did anything with it. I never wanted to get rid of it because I really liked it and I would make something someday. So I kept on renewing it committing to myself that "someday" would eventually arrive. So here we are, it is now someday! In my work training people with visual impairments to use assistive technology, I saw how frustrating it can be when web content fails and the cause isn’t clear. That experience is part of what ...