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The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Computer Pioneer Gordon Bell was born in 1934, Sputnik 5 launched by USSR in 1960, World’s First Geostationary Satellite was Launched in 1964, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Has LinkedIn Become the New Business Newspaper? to GitHub Stacked PRs: A Practical Guide to Smaller, Faster Code Reviews, let’s dive right in.

GitHub Stacked PRs: A Practical Guide to Smaller, Faster Code Reviews

By @arindam1729 [ 7 Min read ] Learn How to use Github Stacked Pull Requests and How it simplifies our workflow Read More.

AI Watermarks Are Here, But They Don’t Prove Who Wrote the Text

By @avgrebenkin[ 4 Min read ] OpenAI and Anthropic are watermarking AI output, but editing, translation and short text...

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Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?

HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carrying case. But the brand’s latest trick might be its riskiest: it’s attempting to sneak a drone past the FCC. In December

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ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home

'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg. Because the last thing DHS needs is more proof of misconduct Some ICE employees seemingly needed a reminder not to wear their Meta pervert glasses to work. Because only ICE can spy on ICE. Meta smart glasses are

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Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS

AI and ML Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore? There's a new and very helpful use case for AI coding agents: designing drivers for devices, such as old printers, that were never meant to work with a particular operating system. Kuber Mehta, a New Delhi, India-based

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Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown

And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal It's an open secret that the major cloud providers don’t actually design their custom silicon from scratch. There's not much value in reinventing the wheel, so they often outsource big