The HackerNoon Newsletter: X Outage Exposes Musks Poor Digital Hygiene (3/11/2025)

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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.

ChatGPT 4.5 Fails To Provide Reasonable Value for Emotional Intelligence

By @anywhichway [ 18 Min read ] 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. Read More.

X Outage Exposes Musks Poor Digital Hygiene

By @redact [ 3 Min read ] 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 Read More.

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

By @andreydidovskiy [ 8 Min read ] Price discovery is a dynamic, experimental process, and crypto markets—particularly through auctions—are a powerful mechanism for this discovery. Read More.

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

By @joseh [ 11 Min read ] 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 Read More.

2025: More Than 100 Jurisdictions Have Crypto Regulation

By @ilinskii [ 7 Min read ] 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. Read More.

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