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

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NFL Adopts Instant Replay … For The First Time in 1986, and we present you with these top quality stories. From X Outage Exposes Musks Poor Digital Hygiene to Need to Buy Plan B or an HIV Test? Facebook Already Knows About It, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#01 Instagram (Meta)
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#02 Facebook (Meta)
597.99 -1.69%
#03 Roblox
53.77 -4.04%
#04 ThoughtWorks
4.47
#05 Netflix
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#01 Bitcoin
$80271.62 +0.46%

machine-learning

ChatGPT 4.5 Fails To Provide Reasonable Value for Emotional Intelligence

TL;DR Research reveals ChatGPT 4.5s EQ doesnt justify price tag, with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and GPT-4o or 4 offering better or similar capability at lower costs.

By @anywhichway [ 18 Min read ]

Note, substantive portions of this article are AI generated, but the point of the article is to:

compare LLM respones

have ChatGPT 4.5 reflect on it sown behavior and that of other LLMs

EQ (No System Prompt)

AEM

Input Cost

Output Cost

GPT

4

54

.7850

$30.00

$60.00

4o..

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cybersecurity

X Outage Exposes Musks Poor Digital Hygiene

TL;DR Musk claims a massive cyberattack is behind a Twitter/X outage impacting thousands globally, but skepticism arises over the lack of evidence. Learn about the

By @redact [ 3 Min read ]

Twitter/X had a massive outage on Monday morning EST, with Downdetector spikes surging;

In a post, Elon Musk has claimed this was due to a “massive cyberattack” against X...

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web3

Crypto Prices Are Chaos, But Maybe That’s a Feature, Not a Bug

TL;DR Price discovery is a dynamic, experimental process, and crypto markets—particularly through auctions—are a powerful mechanism for this discovery.

By @andreydidovskiy [ 8 Min read ]

How much for that shiny digital gold?
Depends; who’s asking and how much you got?

The foundation of commercial activity is trading (buying and selling).
The foundation of trading is the dynamics between supply vs demand.
And the foundation of supply vs demand is pricing.

There are three general participant model types:..

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cybersecurity

Need to Buy Plan B or an HIV Test? Facebook Already Knows About It

TL;DR The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed

By @joseh [ 11 Min read ]

Read on our collaborator's site

This article was coreported with KFF Health News, a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF. Sign up for KFF Health News’s newsletters.

Also published here..

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web3

2025: More Than 100 Jurisdictions Have Crypto Regulation

TL;DR As of March 2025, crypto is considered legal in some form under the laws of 106 jurisdictions. That is over half of all UN member states, which number 193.

By @ilinskii [ 7 Min read ]

Let us take a deep dive into Trump's promises for the crypto industry and what he has fulfilled thus far.

Within a few days of taking office, Donald Trump gave a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who was serving consecutive life sentences for running the darknet market Silk Road...

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On This Day

NFL Adopts Instant Replay … For The First Time

The NFL adopts a limited instant replay system. This system was dropped, however, in 1992 before the current instant replay system was instated in 1999. In effect, you could say the current system is an instant replay itself!

Poll Of the Week

Will true decentralization ever be achieved?

Decentralization - the ultimate goal of modern internet development. Will it be able to leverage blockchain and peer-to-peer networks to shift power from central authorities to communities, promoting collective trust and transparency?

Yes – True decentralization is achievable. Innovative technologies and evolving governance models can eventually overcome centralized power structures.
No – It’s unlikely true decentralization will ever be realized. Challenges like scalability, economic incentives, and inherent human tendencies toward hierarchy may always lead to some centralization.
It depends – It may depend on the definition and context. The feasibility of true decentralization can vary depending on how it is defined across technical, political, and social contexts.
Unsure – I need more information before deciding. The complexities and evolving nature of decentralization leave some uncertain until further evidence and developments emerge.

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