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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 22, 2026?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,The First Computer User Group Was Founded in 1955, First Person to Enter Space Twice in 1963, Masatoshi Shima Birthday in 1943, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Code Smell 321 - Getter Piggybacking to Robotaxis Are Coming for the World’s Most Skilled Drivers, let’s dive right in.

Robotaxis Are Coming for the World’s Most Skilled Drivers

By @thetechpanda [ 4 Min read ] Robotaxis are expanding across major cities, raising new questions about driver displacement, safety, labor shortages, and the economics of autonomous transport Read More.

TryHackMe Hacker Hollidays Walkthrough

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Code Smell 321 - Getter Piggybacking

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An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more

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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Exclusive Video Interview with Mahesh Ramamoorthy, CIO, YES BANK

As banks deploy AI agents across fraud management, AML, KYC and contact centres, Yes Bank CIO Mahesh Ramamoorthy says in an exclusive interaction Express Computer that the next 12 to 18 months will test the economics, governance and trustworthiness of autonomous AI. Acknowledging that AI agents are “bound to” behave

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AI agents are “bound to go wrong,” raising the question what happens next

As banks deploy AI agents across fraud management, AML, KYC and contact centres, Yes Bank CIO Mahesh Ramamoorthy says in an exclusive interaction Express Computer that the next 12 to 18 months will test the economics, governance and trustworthiness of autonomous AI. Acknowledging that AI agents are “bound to” behave

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Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more! ASIA IN BRIEF Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council last week decided to pause all datacenter builds in the country, while it works out appropriate regulations. The