The HackerNoon Newsletter: Profit-hungry Corporations Own Your Most Intimate Data (1/30/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 30, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Charles I, King of England, was executed in 1649, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist. Gandhi in 1948, and we present you with these top quality stories. From DARPA’s Bold AI Plan to Stop Money Laundering in Its Tracks to Hybrid Work is Frustrating—Heres What Employers Can Do Instead, let’s dive right in.

Design Shifts at HackerNoon: Streamlined Top Nav, Quick Search and Settings Dashboard 🚀

By @product [ 2 Min read ] HackerNoon has just rolled out a major update to its design. The new design includes a revamped Top Nav, Quick Search and a new Settings Dashboard. Read More.

Profit-hungry Corporations Own Your Most Intimate Data

By @juancguerrero [ 3 Min read ] In 2025, we shouldnt be trusting our bodies most intimate data to closed systems run by profit-hungry corporations. Read More.

Hybrid Work is Frustrating—Heres What Employers Can Do Instead

By @vrateek [ 5 Min read ] The key to successful RTO is see it from a difference lens — to make it an opportunity to re-design a new work and employee experience. Read More.

DARPA’s Bold AI Plan to Stop Money Laundering in Its Tracks

By @thesociable [ 3 Min read ] DARPA’s A3ML program aims to eliminate global money laundering, but could its algorithms be weaponized for precrime purposes, affecting privacy and crypto? Read More.

Could China’s DeepSeek Shatter the ‘More GPUs, More Power’ Theory?

By @linked_do [ 9 Min read ] It’s early 2025, and we may already be witnessing a redefining moment for AI as we’ve come to know it in the last couple of years. Read More.

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