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Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your
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Tel Aviv, Israel, July 14th, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Tego AI, a cybersecurity company, published new research identifying a potentially critical security weakness in Claude Tag, Anthropic’s native integration between Claude and Slack. Researchers observed Claude Tag responding to messages containing the literal text “@Claude” without requiring a genuine structural Slack
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2026 IBM Report Enterprise in 2030 highlights AI is changing what companies do and how they do it. 79% of executives say AI will significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030, but only 24% can clearly see where that revenue will come from. That gap between expectations and outcomes presents
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Users of OpenAI’s latest coding and cybersecurity-oriented flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, are posting horrifying accounts on social media, claiming the the model just up and deleted their files, data, even entire databases, on its own, without asking first. “GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac’
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CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course.
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TL;DR IBM shares fell sharply after preliminary Q2 revenue came in below estimates despite AI bookings topping $12 billion cumulatively. IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected.
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Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement. Titled “There’s hope in hard questions,” the company’s latest ad has been unsettling viewers with its weird imagery and doomer-ist tone.
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Many Mac users believe that they don’t need to worry about security because macOS is more secure and a smaller platform that isn’t worth targeting, but that’s just not true. A new piece of malware, dubbed CrashStealer, was discovered by the researchers at Jamf Threat Labs and
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Silicon-to-systems design firm Synopsys says it has found no evidence of a data breach after a cybercrime group claimed to have hacked its systems and gained access to valuable data belonging to one of its major customers, Bosch. A new ransomware group named D1R in recent days listed Synopsys and
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Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement It's a blockbuster last-four clash at Dallas Stadium. 5 min read 73%
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* Stripe OLT found ModHeader v7.0.18 carried a hidden spyware SDK, exfiltrating visited domains daily to a Chinese‑owned server and acting as adware * The extension had 1.6M downloads across Chrome and Edge before being pulled but installed endpoints remain at risk * Researchers urge defenders to identify and
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ai and ml Industry, regulate thyself Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis is calling for the US to establish a robust frontier AI model review process because, according to him, artificial general intelligence (AGI) “is probably only a few short years away" and we've got to figure it
