The HackerNoon Newsletter: Who Should Handle Your Digital ID? (8/13/2025)

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13 Aug 2025

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 13, 2025?


The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP) was founded in 1993, NVIDIA announced ray tracing in 2018, East Germany sealed the border in 1961, and we present you with these top quality stories. From From Backlinks to Data Depth: How LLMs Are Rewriting Content Authority to Who Should Handle Your Digital ID?, let’s dive right in.

The Crossroads of AI: Unpacking the Divergent Futures Envisioned by Zuckerberg and LeCun


By @hacker-Antho [ 7 Min read ] this article is about the two different AI vision form Zuckerberg and LeCun Read More.

From Backlinks to Data Depth: How LLMs Are Rewriting Content Authority


By @hackmarketing [ 3 Min read ] Large Language Models (LLMs) are replacing Google-era content authority. LLMs are designed to find content that explains, defines, compares, or solves. Read More.

President of the Midnight Foundation Fahmi Syed on The Glacier Drop, Rational Privacy, and More


By @joseh [ 19 Min read ] President of the Midnight Foundation Fahmi Syed explains what rational privacy is, Midnight Networks Glacier Drop, and its two-token system. Read More.

Who Should Handle Your Digital ID?


By @drewchapin [ 4 Min read ] Were living through the worlds most chaotic identity verification experiment, and nobodys talking about the elephant in the room: who is handling this data? Read More.

AI Is Not as Environmentally Harmful As You Think


By @OurAI [ 4 Min read ] The development of AI comes with environmental costs that may be outweighed by the promise of efficiency. Read More.


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