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2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet

Ars Technica

2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet

As so many career counselors and lifestyle coaches have explained, first impressions matter. A bad one can set the tone for an entire relationship, whether that's with a person, a novel, a restaurant, or a car. And the 2026 Volkswagen…

Ars Technica

EU steps up AI regulation as new transparency rules come into effect

RFI

EU steps up AI regulation as new transparency rules come into effect

The European Union is stepping up its oversight of artificial intelligence this week, as the main provisions of its landmark AI Act became applicable, giving regulators stronger powers to inspect advanced models and sanction companies that…

RFI

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How GMX Liquidity Pools Work (8/3/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 3, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Radio Shack Announced TRS-80 Computer in 1977, Mozilla Corporation was…

The Enterprise AI Privacy Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question

The Enterprise AI Privacy Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question

Generative AI does not automatically create a new category of data risk. Like any cloud service, the risk depends on what the provider does with the data. What changes is the diversity of information we may unknowingly concentrate in a…

Meet the Hackathon Winner: Packworks on the Future of Phygital Retail and Building With Bright Data

Meet the Hackathon Winner: Packworks on the Future of Phygital Retail and Building With Bright Data

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Hackathon Winner interview series, where we peel back the layers of winning projects across our hackathons for a peek at the technical and operational decisions that propelled them to our winners’ podium…

What is the release date for X-Men '97 season 2 episode 8 on Disney+?

What is the release date for X-Men '97 season 2 episode 8 on Disney+?

Ready to say goodbye to X-Men '97 season 2 yet? I hope not, because you've got two more episodes to enjoy of the Marvel TV show before its latest season ends. The first of those episodes, which is this season's eighth and penultimate…

I scanned Best Buy's massive back-to-school sale

I scanned Best Buy's massive back-to-school sale

If you're headed off to college or school later this year, then I've got great news: Best Buy has just launched a comprehensive 'back-to-school' sale . It features price cuts on just about everything a prospective student could need…

Former Mossad chief David Barnea to take top role at defense company

Times of Israel

Former Mossad chief David Barnea to take top role at defense company

Ondas Defense says recently retired top spy to join as global president and chairman; will will work to develop 'the next generation of AI-enabled, multi-domain defense systems' The post Former Mossad chief David Barnea to take top role at…

Times of Israel

This free Linux tool makes it easy to check your PC battery and disk usage - here's how

ZDNet

This free Linux tool makes it easy to check your PC battery and disk usage - here's how

The Mission Center system monitor for Linux adds some new features that will appeal to a broader user base, especially those with laptops.

ZDNet

AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.

AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.

The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting…

How Ceuta migrant crisis exposes divisions within Europe - The Latest

The Guardian

How Ceuta migrant crisis exposes divisions within Europe - The Latest

At least 72 people have died attempting to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after an estimated 50,000 migrants crossed from Morocco last week. The incident has triggered a political crisis in Spain and criticism from EU countries. Lucy…

The Guardian

A startup says the AI bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s memory, and it ditched the GPU to prove it.

A startup says the AI bottleneck isn’t compute. It’s memory, and it ditched the GPU to prove it.

The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server it says can do the work of…