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How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, July 13, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,New York City Loses Power in 1977, John F. Kennedy Nominated for Presidency in 1960, Live Aid Concert Organized in 1985, and we
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Cybercriminals now deploy artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automation and sophisticated attack techniques that outpace traditional security defenses. As threats become faster and more complex, the tools designed to counter them must advance in tandem. Selecting the right solution requires evaluating practical capabilities rather than accepting marketing claims at face value.
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Welcome one, welcome all to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature! Every week, we highlight an awesome company from our Tech Company Database thatâs making waves in the global tech ecosystem. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising stars in the startup scene. This
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A practitionerâs confession, with the log files to back it up. Pull up July 10 in my logs: 52 agent sessions across six projects. 7.3 million tokens of output. 117 million tokens read fresh into context, 1.4 billion if you count cache hits. Thatâs one day.
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A few weeks ago, a computer at my bank decided I was a security risk. And the human on the phone told me, flat out, that she could not overrule it. I half-joked, asking who was really in charge here, her or the computer. We spend a lot of energy
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Most of the industry is arguing about which AI tool to buy, when the actual unsolved problem is upstream of any tool: nobody has defined what a competitor signal should trigger, decided by whom, on what timeline. Until that logic exists on paper, AI just makes the guessing faster -
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Artificial intelligence has already made its presence felt throughout a vast range of industries, but perhaps none more so than in the fintech landscape. With investors already beginning to lean heavily on agentic AI for insights, are the days of human financial advisors numbered? Thereâs little doubt about the
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Let's learn about Blogging Fellowship via these 500 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. HackerNoon runs a blogging fellowship to help people become better writers. 1.
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AI-generated music is being uploaded to streaming platforms and other distribution mediums at a scale that no review team can handle, and most detection tools aren't built for the messy reality of real catalogs. They return a single score for a whole track and lack the ability to
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I wanted to build something using AI. And it uses AI. I was thinking, what is the best thing to make? And it came to my mind: a game that everyone knows and plays and is easy to play. Tic-tac-toe. But training an AI to play tic-tac-toe will take time.
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There is a database that every AI team should be forced to read before their next sprint planning. It is maintained by researcher Damien Charlotin, and it tracks court cases worldwide in which AI-generated content â fabricated citations, invented precedents, fake quotes from real judgments â was submitted to actual courts. By
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The next useful jump in AI coding may not come from a model benchmark. It may come from the agent finally being able to see the browser. WebKit's Safari MCP server, introduced in Safari Technology Preview 247, is a good example of that shift. It lets MCP-compatible agents
