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* Etched reached a $10.3 billion valuation after securing fresh SK Hynix backing * The startup built custom processors specifically for demanding AI inference workloads * Etched says conventional GPUs waste power during many inference tasks today Etched, a US-based AI chip startup, has secured fresh backing from SK Hynix as it
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“Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past,” sang (or croaked) Leonard Cohen, and I’ve found myself recently doing the same. However, while Cohen was lamenting the death of a relationship, my early-onset nostalgia has been triggered by something far more tragic and poetic: the death of
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AI demands a huge amount of energy, water, compute, and, of course, money. Big tech companies, including Google and Meta, have pledged huge sums of money toward the capital expenditure (capex) to continue the push to more powerful AI. But many inventors feel increasingly wary that this spending is simply
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 1, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,General Motors Filed for Bankruptcy in 2012, The First Email was Sent in 1971, Oxygen was discovered in 1774, and we present you
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Block decomposition is the design that 3 separate teams, writing in different languages and handling slightly overlapping workloads, chose to use for their time-series database. All of ClickHouse, Prometheus, and InfluxDB partition their time series data into "sealed blocks", put a small summary in the "side"
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On July 16, Hugging Face disclosed a breach with a detail worth sitting with: the intrusion was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," executing thousands of actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes over a weekend. A malicious dataset abused two code-execution paths, and
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Let's learn about Framework via these 86 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 framework is a reusable, standardized set of libraries, tools, and guidelines that
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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. Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up
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Modern machine vision systems have become very good at recognizing defects, tracking objects, reading barcodes, and making complex decisions locally at the edge. However, acting on those decisions has generally required additional hardware to make the leap from perception to physical control. The M8 Controller Box recently introduced by Luxonis
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Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in life,” rather than “12 weeks, Demo Day is coming,” Rowan Aldean, 26, explained. Intrigued, I spent an afternoon visiting the house, meeting its residents, and doing a
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* Ukraine receives rights to produce Britain’s Stone Cloak electronic warfare system * Tablet-sized device helps Ukraine counter growing Russian drone operations * Stone Cloak expands Ukraine’s electronic warfare capabilities against unmanned threats Ukraine is receiving access to the intellectual property behind the UK-developed Stone Cloak electronic warfare system. The tablet-sized
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I bought my first Tesla Model 3 in June 2019. It was my dream car. The promise of getting in, selecting a destination, and the car taking care of the rest was one I bought into. I originally bought the Model 3 without Full Self Driving (FSD), which at the
