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AI coding tools don’t guarantee productivity. Real gains come from redesigning engineering workflows, teams, and decision-making around them.

Starlink Direct-to-Cell is providing emergency SMS in wildfire-hit parts of Spain after damaged telecom infrastructure cut mobile coverage.

Research links remote work to less movement, more musculoskeletal strain, and higher loneliness. Here’s how to make a home workday healthier.

Learn everything you need to know about Macos via these 66 free HackerNoon blog posts.

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Financial crime alerting runs at a 95% false positive rate. Twenty years of failing to fix it taught banking things engineering teams keep rediscovering.

Built for Shipaton 2026, ROLL Beauty passed its simulator tests before a 19-hour real-world session exposed nine computer-vision bugs.

Making money from AI, is not a secret formula; it's a very clear path and pattern.

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QoreChain brings NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography to a live Layer 1 as QOR begins trading on MEXC following 74 days of mainnet operation.

This guide walks through exactly how I set it up, what works, what doesn’t, and the specific models that actually run well on ARM hardware with limited RAM.

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Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released back in July and still available on Framework's site at the time of this writing. Upon […]

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download […]

Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been looking into concerns that the company hasn't been in compliance with Australia's Online Safety Act, including "allegedly failing to have sufficient measures in place to prevent contact between adults and children under 16." While […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland "several weeks ago," according to The Irish Times. While the exact price of the purchase is unclear, the family could have paid "anywhere between €20 million and €30 million" for the […]

Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. And arguably it has some of the wildest designs and features in the auto market today. Right off the bat, the coach-style doors signal that things aren't what they seem with the GV90. When the front and […]

Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year after its initial launch. Riot says "active development" will conclude at the end of 2026 because the company hasn't "seen enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability." Servers will […]

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.

The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.