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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 11, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Transatlantic TV Transmission via Satellite in 1962, Skylab Re-Enters the Earth's Atmosphere in 1979, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Published in 1960, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Venmo’s Friends List Exposed a U.S. Security Adviser—And It Could Happen to You to On Grok and the Weight of Design, let’s dive right in.


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machine-learning

This New Language Might Kill NVIDIA’s GPU Monopoly

TL;DR A 4 trillion USD company is well-established today but that may change as early as next year, thanks to disruptive technology - MLIR and Mojo.

By @thomascherickal [ 29 Min read ]

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The era of high-performance computing has been defined by a single name: CUDA.

NVIDIA's platform unlocked the power of GPUs, becoming the de facto standard.

Intel Gaudi Series:

AWS Trainium:

(Mojo)..

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machine-learning

Yandex Releases Massive Dataset to Help AI Understand What You Really Like

TL;DR Yandex has released Yambda, one of the world’s largest recommendation datasets.

By @hacker35117626 [ 6 Min read ]

Meet Yambda: One of the world’s largest open datasets for RecSys.

However, most open-source datasets are either small or outdated, as companies that accumulate terabytes of data rarely make them publicly available due to privacy concerns. Today, we’re releasing Yambda, one of the world’s largest recommendation datasets.

Let’s begin!..

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cybersecurity

Venmo’s Friends List Exposed a U.S. Security Adviser—And It Could Happen to You

TL;DR A Wired investigation exposed a top U.S. official’s contacts via Venmo. Learn how poor privacy defaults could put your data—and network—at risk.

By @@hanaliu [ 4 Min read ]

“Venmo’s disregard for its users’ privacy”, as criticised by Mozilla and EFF, would make consumers lose trust in the digital products they use everyday, and would turn them away from these products and companies who failed to respect and protect their users’ security and privacy...

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machine-learning

On Grok and the Weight of Design

TL;DR Groks recent output issues reveal deeper structural problems in model alignment.

By @aborschel [ 3 Min read ]

There’s a difference between drift and direction. Between a model veering off course, and one gently nudged there.

This isn’t just a question of harm. It’s a question of responsibility—quiet, architectural, and already in production...

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tech-stories

No-Code Automation With n8n – Start Here

TL;DR n8n is a powerful, open-source workflow automation tool tha helps you connect different apps, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline your operations.

By @proflead [ 6 Min read ]

Do you want to automate tasks without writing a single line of code? If the answer is yes, then you’ve come to the right place. In this simple tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can create your first automated workflow using a tool called n8n.

Configure the Message:..

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On This Day

First Transatlantic TV Transmission via Satellite

The first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite was made between the United States and Europe, showing live footage of the French National Day Parade in Paris.

Poll Of the Week

Would You Ride in A Self-Driving Car?

Tesla is starting trials on their robotaxi service, and Waymo continues to open up its services to more cities. So, we want to know if you would ride one of these autonomous cars.

Absolutely not
Yes, I would
Not now, but maybe in the future
I already did, and I would do it again
I already did, and I would not do it again

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