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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 12, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,The Launch of the Etch A Sketch in 1960, The Rolling Stones Played Their First Show in 1962, Thomas J. Watson Predicted That
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A wax seal proves a document is genuine. It does not prove the seal is still attached to the document it was originally stamped onto. Medieval forgers knew this and exploited it for centuries: cut a real seal off one charter, reattach it to a fake one, and the forgery
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Let me begin with what GTA 6 is not, because almost everyone online is preparing to sell you the wrong story without first checking whether the claims are even credible. One thing already looks clear: if you are expecting NPCs with some revolutionary next-generation brain, forget it. The people wandering
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Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. I'm Lanre Shittu. By day,
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AI-related securities class action filings more than doubled in a single year, from seven cases in 2023 to fifteen in 2024, according to Cornerstone Research and Stanford Law School. By 2025, that number kept climbing. In April 2025, one of those cases got a face. The SEC and DOJ charged
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Road infrastructure is entering a new era as research and technology continue to improve the safety, sustainability, and performance of transportation networks. Through collaboration between industry leaders and academic researchers, innovative solutions are helping shape the future of road construction and maintenance. One example is the Roads Research Alliance, a
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The best way to celebrate AI Appreciation Day is to not. It's AI Appreciation Day on July 16 and we're all left wondering who asked for this. In name, it's about as serious as the marketing stunts that gave us gems like National Hot
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DeepSeek's recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for enterprise AI vendors and developers. Instead, many are discovering that cheaper models don’t automatically translate into healthier margins. The reason is simple: While inference costs plummet, agent
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out
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The smartphone market has changed drastically in the past couple of years. From focusing on brighter displays, bigger and better cameras and a bigger battery life to focusing on-device AI and AI-based camera features, the market has evolved significantly in the past couple of years. This change in demand has
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
