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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 26, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Miss Manners Addressed Computer Correspondence in 1984, First German to go into Space in 1978, and we present you with these top quality
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A THAAD interceptor costs somewhere between twelve and fifteen million dollars. A Patriot PAC-3 MSE round is listed at roughly $5.3 million in the US Army's most recent budget request. The FPV drone that a great deal of modern air defense is now being asked to shoot
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Every pitch deck in fintech now contains one identical slide. Around page 6, an AI assistant appears, smiling in a chat bubble, eager to "transform the customer experience." I have sat through many of these decks, even built a few myself, and I have come to a simple
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Let's learn about Nodejs Tutorial via these 54 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. A guide explaining how to use Node.js, a JavaScript runtime for
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Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, August 26th, 2026/Chainwire/--CoinMarketCap has obtained a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation report, following an independent examination of the controls protecting the systems behind its market data. CoinMarketCap also completed the SOC 1 Type 1 examination. Both reports add to the international certifications the company
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Checkpointing is an easy feature to sell: If the agent crashes, it resumes where it left off. That sentence is reassuring and incomplete. A workflow engine can restore its own state. It cannot atomically restore the external world. Between “call the refund API” and “save the successful checkpoint,” the refund
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It’s become impossible to avoid microplastics; they’re in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the products we use around the house and, yes, even the food we eat. A 2024 scoping review found that microplastics have been detected in eight of 12 human organ systems, including
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6.5 Pros & Cons * Great retro design * Fast filter access is a solid improvement * Threads for lens filters is a great idea * Image quality is unchanged from original * Good price but spending a little more gets far better image quality The Camp Snap 2 is a small, screen-free digital
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An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuses, raises or promotions. Microsoft employees have started comparing
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OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agents for exploiting their own environment. OpenAI
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