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AI lets solo founders automate almost everything—but not leadership. Explore the rise of the Ghost Founder, decisional loneliness, and startup burnout.

When it came to using Large Language Models (LLMs), it used to be all about prompt engineering.

Building for Shipaton 2026? Document your journey on HackerNoon and compete for an extra $2,500 in cash prizes.

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

The temporary exemption from federal safety standards will let Amazon’s Zoox launch a real, paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas.

Here are the best back-to-school deals under $200 on comfy, ergonomic chairs for all-nighters and cram sessions

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah well, if you didn't remember, Friend is back. And now, it's twice the price. This morning, Friend launched a new ad […]

Weeks ahead of Google's next Pixel hardware event, Leaker Evan Blass has shared what appear to be marketing renders of the unannounced Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold in a post on his Substack. The renders, if accurate, show that the new foldable will look fairly similar to last year's model - it has a tall […]

Google is working on a way to apply Chrome updates without requiring you to restart your browser. In a post on Thursday, Google outlines its approach to bug fixes in the age of AI, while noting that it's trying to make updates less disruptive by "investing in 'dynamic patching' that will eliminate the need for […]

ABC filed its formal opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's effort to force it to submit to an early renewal of its broadcast station licenses, calling it an effort to chill the speech of broadcasters across the country. In a new filing with the FCC, ABC charges that the agency's willingness to pursue the early […]

Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday. The new model will allow humanoid robots […]

The latest discovery from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the unusual terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches wide, but NASA says it's previously only found them in small patches, […]

Buying multiple lamps for different rooms can get expensive. Govee’s rechargeable Table Lamp Classic gives you one lamp you can use throughout your home instead of getting one for every room, and right now it’s down to $59 ($21 off) at Amazon. That’s just $4 shy of the all-time low set during Prime Day, and […]

A lot of content on LinkedIn might seem like AI slop, and now, you'll be able to report those posts. As part of a series of updates to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform, LinkedIn is introducing an actual button that lets you flag a post as something that "Seems like AI […]

The Galaxy Watch 9 launches on August 7th, and not only does Costco have the best preorder incentives we’ve seen so far, the watch is also discounted. The deal includes the 40mm Watch 9 in cream or graphite, two wireless fast chargers for the watch, and a $50 Costco gift card, all for $339.99 — […]

The milestone means Tesla is halfway to accomplishing one of the four core product goals Elon Musk has to hit to unlock his full $1 trillion pay package.

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile.

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

If you run an affiliate program on Stripe subscriptions, you pay commission when an invoice gets paid. The part that quietly breaks is what happens when a renewal that already earned someone a commission stops being paid. Most implementations reverse on the wrong event. I had the shape of this wrong myself until I sat down with the retry docs and read what actually fires. The event everyone reverses on is the wrong one invoice.payment_failed looks like the obvious trigger. S...

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing . What I built PISCA is an interactive, bilingual landing page about pisca andina , a family of breakfast soups from the Venezuelan Andes. I did not want to build a generic food landing page and swap in a regional dish at the end. The page had to feel specific to pisca: a cold mountain morning, a clay bowl, simple ingredients, and the first warmth of the day. That led to the central image....

Why my Cursor bill looked weird I was poking around my usage dashboard in Cursor and noticed a metric I'd never paid attention to before: Cache Read . Date Type Model Tokens May 2, 06:50 PM Included auto 898K → Cache Read May 2, 06:49 PM Included auto 1.4M → Cache Write May 2, 06:47 PM Included auto 346.8K → Input / Output Almost 99% of my input tokens for that session were served from cache. That sent me down a rabbit hole on w...

Google is expanding Gemini Omni video editing beyond a single consumer feature with relighting tools in Google Photos and Google Vids. The capability lets users change or improve a clip's lighting through natural-language prompts, positioning lighting correction as part of a broader conversational editing workflow that also includes background changes, stabilization, and element modifications. The clearest consumer implementation is Video Remix in Google Photos. In its official Video Rem...

I watched IBM Technology's breakdown of the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report and then read the full study published by IBM and the Ponemon Institute. As a backend software engineer, the numbers hit close to home. The global average cost of a data breach has hit an all-time high of $4.99 million -- a 12% jump from last year. That is not just inflation. The rise comes from higher detection costs, escalation expenses, and lost business. If you are in the US, the picture is worse. US breach...

Orange Pi 5 Max vs Rock 5B+: The 32GB SBC Battle in 2026 If you’ve been shopping for a high-performance single-board computer in 2026, you’ve likely run into two names: the Orange Pi 5 Max and the Radxa Rock 5B+ . Both are built around the RK3588 system-on-chip, both come in configurations with up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and both are aimed at developers who need serious compute power on a small footprint. But which one should you actually buy? I’ve been digging into the specs, the real-...