TECH NEWS
How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, August 21, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Burroughs Received Patent for Calculating Machine in 1888, NASA lost communication with the Mars Observer almost a year after its launch in 1993,
TECH NEWS
Let's learn about Mobile Application Development via these 93 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. Mobile application development is the process of creating software applications for
TECH NEWS
Grand Theft Auto 6 is still months away from release, but one leaker who appears to have a build of the game has been posting snippets online over the past week. Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of publisher Rockstar Games, has gone to court to get to the bottom of
TECH NEWS
Save $10: Bluetooth trackers are becoming a travel essential, especially when theyâre this affordable. The Eufy SmartTrack Card E40 is now down to a record-low price of $25, making it an easy upgrade for anyone prone to misplacing valuables. In fact, itâs one of the best values weâ
TECH NEWS
Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning â 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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. â Unlimited talk, text &
TECH NEWS
Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. LinkedIn actually announced a âSeems like AI slopâ button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to
TECH NEWS
TL;DR Privacy is shifting from a settings toggle to a core selling point across four software categories: browsers (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Firefox blocking trackers by default), messaging apps (WhatsApp view-once, Signal growth), VPNs (independent no-logs audits, RAM-only servers), and AI tools (on-device processing, client-side encryption). The common thread: users now
TECH NEWS
Show us the money Salesforce partners say they have yet to see any meaningful revenue from Agentforce, two years after the CRM giant launched its AI platform, promising spectacular growth. That's according to a recent report from TD Cowen, which surveyed Salesforce partners and found muted interest in
TECH NEWS
* Researchers show how an expired contactless card can still complete a real purchase because the expiry date the terminal reads is not covered by its signature * The attack needs physical possession of the discarded card and two ordinary smartphones, and results vary per bank, with Visa cards being susceptible in
TECH NEWS
If you spend your days building profitability and cost models, the August 2026 update to Oracle EPCM is worth a close read. The headline is a redesigned PCM Agent that finally lives where you actually work. But there are a couple of quieter improvements in this release that will matter
TECH NEWS
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images ByHemant Baidwan August 21, 2026 04:38 PM ET COMMENTARY | Attacks now move faster than human-paced patch cycles can keep up with and a compliance program built around periodic reviews will not catch them. * Artificial Intelligence * IT Modernization * FedRAMP Pete Waterman did not mince words at
TECH NEWS
Framework says a BIOS update for the company's Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series processors can brick a "small percentage" of units, leaving them unable to boot. Thankfully, the company is replacing faulty motherboards, even for out-of-warranty devices. Users started experiencing this issue a couple of
