2026-05-13
Teaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance
A strange choice with details to follow.
The TechBeat: Vought Rising: Everything We Know So Far About The Boys Spin-off (5/13/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
Designing Tendon-Driven Grippers with Graph Grammar & MCTS
Explore the automatic generation of tendon-driven grippers. Learn how the Rostok framework uses graph grammar rules, star topologies, and weighted reward functions to optimize underactuated finger designs.
Measure the Earth’s Rotation Victorian Style
You’ve probably seen a Foucault pendulum in a museum. This Victorian-era science demonstration is named after physicist Léon Foucault and shows how the Earth rotates compared to a pendulum moving...
He Ran a Furniture Business for 20 Years. Now He and His Son Are Taking On Smoothie King and Jamba.
Daniel Boone spent two decades selling couches before deciding his next venture had to focus on health. His son Ethan joined him.
Best Speech to Text APIs: 12 Leading Speech to Text APIs Compared
Speech-to-text APIs now process 500M+ hours of audio a month across enterprise apps, but a transcript alone isn't enough for fraud detection, healthcare scribing, or call-center QA. Here's how 12...
Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf
Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow
Civilization as a tower of holes
Epistemic note: This essay conflates two related concepts, the tendency of humans to build civilization by exploiting Nature’s rules and the vulnerability of that same civilization to exploits in turn,...
eBay Rejects GameStop’s $56 Billion Bid, Calling the Offer ‘Neither Credible Nor Attractive’
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen made an ambitious bid for eBay, a company nearly four times the size of his own. eBay's board wasn't impressed.
Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we're hitting 'diminishing returns' with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important
Keep your traced rays, I'm attaching barnacles to things.
Business Schools Are Offering Up to 50% Off M.B.A.s. — What’s Going On and Where Can You Find the Best Deal?
Purdue is cutting tuition 40%. Johns Hopkins is offering 50% scholarships. As applications decline, schools are doing a fire sale on MBAs.
What Building Both a Services Firm and SaaS Taught Me About Business
Building both a services firm and SaaS products taught me the real edge isn't choosing — it's combining cash flow, customer insight and scalable software.
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?
May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces
Podcast: The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
We got Haotian AI, the Chinese-language deepfake software powering scams. We also talk about a man finding $1 million of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and how the AI hard drive shortage is...
Outbound is an excellent idea but fails to pin down what people love about co-op crafting
My van's wheels are stuck on a single track.
Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart
Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin
One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'
Imsim legend Jonathan Chey's new game is exploring a solution to plasmid favouritism.
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Punisher: One Last Kill is just the latest Marvel Studios project affected by bad VFX
Marvel's Punisher: One Last Kill highlights the MCU's ongoing struggle with subpar visual effects
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