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The HackerNoon Newsletter: What It Really Means to Be a 10x DevRel (8/5/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 5, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First traffic lights installed in 1914, eOne PC launched in 1999, Google…

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Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

The Verge

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those…

The Verge

Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit's war on AI scraping

Engadget

Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit's war on AI scraping

The company is also planning to retire its public API.

Engadget

Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Wired

Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

Wired

TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

The Next Web

TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test…

The Next Web

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

Roads blocked, traffic disrupted as PTI holds rally near Karachi Press Club

Dawn

Roads blocked, traffic disrupted as PTI holds rally near Karachi Press Club

KARACHI: The PTI held a protest near the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Wednesday to mark three years since the imprisonment of party founder Imran Khan and demand his release. The demonstration led to traffic disruptions in the surrounding…

Dawn

Why haven't we seen images of SpaceX Moon crash yet?

BBC

Why haven't we seen images of SpaceX Moon crash yet?

The SpaceX rocket part has crashed into the Moon, forming a new crater, images from orbiting satellites should arrive in the coming hours and days.

BBC

Atiku: Under Tinubu, debt has become a policy

Daily Trust

Atiku: Under Tinubu, debt has become a policy

Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the approval by the National Economic Council (NEC) of a $4.5 billion refinancing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited’s…

Daily Trust

Want a free Photoshop alternative on Linux? How to get Affinity today: 2 ways

ZDNet

Want a free Photoshop alternative on Linux? How to get Affinity today: 2 ways

One method is easier, but the other gets you faster, more reliable performance.

ZDNet

Teachers warn “it is practically impossible to have all re-assements of national exams ready by Friday”

Portugal Resident

Teachers warn “it is practically impossible to have all re-assements of national exams ready by Friday”

Schools and teachers are still racing against the clock to complete the marking of national exams that has been dogged with issues for weeks. MEP, the ‘Missão Escola Pública’ (public The post Teachers warn “it is practically impossible to…

Portugal Resident

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.