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Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who's widely credited with inventing holography, a photographic technique that can record and reconstruct three-dimensional images. This is an invention for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. But his legacy extends to his philosophy on the nature of
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 28, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,The End of AppleTalk in 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation Was Established in 1937, First Issue of Scientific American hit the newsstands in 1845,
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Abstract This article summarizes the author’s practical engineering insights and architectural lessons derived from achieving a top-3 leaderboard finish in BuidlGuidl’s recent high-level ETH Techtree Solidity programming competition. It systematically explores four battle-tested runtime gas optimization techniques tailored for decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contracts: Lazy Accounting & Accumulator
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Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense For years, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill and occasional Reg columnist, has argued that Amazon's Route 53 DNS service is a database. While literally true in the sense that DNS records are stored
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How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs? Datacenter cooling could get a lot more affordable, and sustainable, if a joint German-Japanese research project can be scaled beyond the laboratory. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba published
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More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi Anthropic’s Claude Code running Opus 5 in Auto Mode can be tricked into executing attacker-controlled code simply by asking the coding agent to summarize a website. The attack works up to 80 percent of the time, according to prompt-injection wizard Johann Rehberger, aka wunderwuzzi.
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Most executives do not wake up worried about IT asset discovery tools. They worry about failed changes, business disruption, cybersecurity exposure, cloud waste, audit findings, poor operational visibility, and whether their AI-driven automation initiatives can be trusted. The uncomfortable truth is that many of those outcomes depend on the quality
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* Ukraine has deployed a turbojet interceptor specifically designed to hunt Russian attack drones * The compact aircraft can return home when an interception attempt fails * Multiple warhead options allow the interceptor to tackle different aerial targets Ukraine's defense ministry has confirmed a new turbojet-powered aircraft built to shoot down
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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TL;DR A 19-year-old founder who runs a 200+ brand UGC marketplace argues the influencer model is breaking down economically. Brands are shifting from single expensive influencer bets to batches of creator-made videos tested as paid ads, where each piece generates data. The next step is AI agents handling the
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In Brief 1:24 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports. The terms of the
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J. David Ake/Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW August 28, 2026 04:18 PM ET New guidance from the National Archives and Records Administration outlines when agencies should preserve AI-related materials as federal records and notes there is no “one size fits all” approach to doing so.
