The HackerNoon Newsletter: Addicted to Your AI? New Research Warns of Social Reward Hacking (6/18/2025)

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18 Jun 2025

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 18, 2025?


The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Rolls-Royce Was Trademark Registered in 1935, F-117 Nighthawk Made Its First Stealth Flight in 1981, Kazakhstan Launched Its First Satellite in 2006, NASA Launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009, The First Checker Cab Appeared in the US in 1923, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Sean K. Reynolds Reflects on a Career Spanning DD, Fallout, and the Art of Tabletop Storytelling to LazyAdminFinder: Easily Discover Shared Passwords and Enhance Active Directory Security, let’s dive right in.

LazyAdminFinder: Easily Discover Shared Passwords and Enhance Active Directory Security


By @barberion [ 7 Min read ] LazyAdminFinder detects shared and reused passwords in Active Directory, helping you catch risky admin behavior and strengthen your security posture. Read More.

Addicted to Your AI? New Research Warns of Social Reward Hacking


By @OlgaTitova [ 7 Min read ] Latest research reveals AI companions can reduce loneliness and build social skills—but only with ethical design. A guide for developers and users. Read More.

Sean K. Reynolds Reflects on a Career Spanning DD, Fallout, and the Art of Tabletop Storytelling


By @wxaith [ 9 Min read ] Sean K. Reynolds, veteran game designer behind Dungeons Dragons, the canceled Fallout 3 (Van Buren), and more, discusses Monte Cook Games success. Read More.

AI Tools Can Now Write Like You—Here’s How That Changes Everything


By @drewchapin [ 3 Min read ] New MCP tools enable programmatic SEO that’s actually useful, combining context and your knowledge base to create scalable, high-quality content. Read More.

I Traded My Sketchpad for a Prompt Box—And Art Will Never Be the Same


By @hacker-j6efcy4 [ 12 Min read ] AI art, neural networks creative disruption—explore how a simple apple exposes the edge between human intuition and machine intelligence. Read More.


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