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Archive: February 4th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Vladislav Guzey

Vladislav Guzey@proflead

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OpenClaw for Beginners: Install, Configure, and Secure Your Bot

Min Read19 days Ago

Dmytro Spilka

Dmytro Spilka@dmytrospilka

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How Big Data is Transforming Wealth as 28 Million UK Adults Use AI to Support Financial Decisions

Min Read19 days Ago

M-Marvin Ken

M-Marvin Ken@maken8

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Elon Musk is Going to Build AI-Powered Rockets

Min Read19 days Ago

Economic Hedging Technology

Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

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Cyber Insurance Models Show Reliability Gains for Power Grids Under Epidemic-Style Attacks

Min Read19 days Ago

CyberNewswire

CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

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MomentProof Deploys Patented Digital Asset Protection

Min Read19 days Ago

Jurgis

Jurgis@jurgispocius

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How I Built an AI VC Associate to Screen 3,000 Pitch Decks

Min Read19 days Ago

Dizzaract

Dizzaract@dizzaract

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FAR Labs Launches Distributed Compute Network for AI Inference

Min Read19 days Ago

Christopher Louis Tsu

Christopher Louis Tsu@louistsu

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The $30 Trillion Economy That Doesn't Need Humans

Min Read19 days Ago

Economic Hedging Technology

Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

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Balancing Risk and Fairness in Power Grid Cyber-Insurance Design

Min Read19 days Ago

Economic Hedging Technology

Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

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Modeling Cyberattacks on Power Grids to Price Risk in Mutual Insurance Systems

Min Read19 days Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Reinforcement Learning on Non-Euclidean Spaces: Swarms, Spheres, and Hyperbolic RL

Min Read19 days Ago

Economic Hedging Technology

Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

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A New Cyber-Insurance Model Uses Game Theory to Protect Smart Power Grids

Min Read19 days Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Supervised Learning for Swarms on Manifolds: Training Kuramoto Networks and Stochastic Optimization

Min Read19 days Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Swarms on Manifolds for Deep Learning: Training Kuramoto Models and Trajectory Learning

Min Read19 days Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Probabilistic ML on Grassmannians and Orthogonal Groups: Langevin and Bingham Matrix Models

Min Read19 days Ago

CyberNewswire

CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

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One Identity Appoints Gihan Munasinghe as Chief Technology Officer

Min Read19 days Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Cell Service Is Escaping Earth (2/4/2026)

Min Read19 days Ago

HackerNoon Courses

HackerNoon Courses@hackernoon-courses

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How to Become a Pro at Researching and Reaching Out for Interviews

Min Read19 days Ago

Hyperbole

Hyperbole@hyperbole

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Hyperbolic Space Statistical Models: Geometric Deep Learning & Inference

Min Read19 days Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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Mutuum Finance Crosses Major Funding Threshold as MUTM Hits 3x With Over $20.2M Raised

Min Read19 days Ago

The Itan Quill

The Itan Quill@itanquill

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The Web3 UX Problem AI Agents Are Accidentally Solving

Min Read19 days Ago

DataOps.live

DataOps.live@dataops

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AI Belongs Inside DataOps, Not Just at the End of the Pipeline

Min Read19 days Ago

Professional Imposter Syndrome

Professional Imposter Syndrome@amalik18

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CP Systems Explained, Part 2: Quorums, Consensus, and the Price of Being Right

Min Read19 days Ago

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

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How Light Broke the Human Mind

Min Read20 days Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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The Next Generation of Cybersecurity Protection for Healthcare

Min Read20 days Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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Ghulam Murtaza: From Rural Pakistan To Amazon Automation

Min Read20 days Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is (2/4/2026)

Min Read20 days Ago

Vaishnavi Gudur

Vaishnavi Gudur@vgudur

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LLMjacking is a Costly New Threat to Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure

Min Read20 days Ago

William Guo

William Guo@williamguo

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Run a Flink Kafka Job from DolphinScheduler (Standalone VM Setup)

Min Read20 days Ago

Joe bou khalil

Joe bou khalil @Joeboukhalil

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Building a Live HTML Page Generator Using Pure JavaScript

Min Read20 days Ago

Kaustuv Ghosh

Kaustuv Ghosh@nxtgencode

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The Technology Management Manifesto

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Turn Any Image Into a Video: fal-ai’s vidu/q3 Guide

Min Read20 days Ago

decoder man

decoder man@decoderman

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Transaction Decoding on Ethereum (EVM Blockchains) vs Solana: A Technical Perspective

Min Read20 days Ago

Joachim Zeelmaekers

Joachim Zeelmaekers@joachimz

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The Best Engineering Teams Share These Four Traits

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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AI Assistants Can Quietly Kill Skill Growth

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Qwen’s 0.6B CustomVoice TTS: Multilingual, Fast, and Surprisingly Expressive

Min Read20 days Ago

Nikhil Adithyan

Nikhil Adithyan@nikhiladithyan

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Build a Tool-Backed Market Brief Copilot (Not a Chat Demo)

Min Read20 days Ago

Piyush Jajoo

Piyush Jajoo@pjajoo

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mTLS Explained: Mutual Authentication for Cloud Microservices

Min Read20 days Ago

SENTRA

SENTRA@sentra-bureau

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Lending Markets for Stablecoins

Min Read20 days Ago

Anusha Kovi

Anusha Kovi@anushakovi

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“Bring Your Own Agent” Meets “Bring Your Own Data”: ADBC-First Notebooks as a Governed Data UX

Min Read20 days Ago

Praveen Kumar Myakala

Praveen Kumar Myakala@praveenmyakala

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OpenClaw: An AI Lobster That Gets Work Done

Min Read20 days Ago

Aleksei Rozhkov

Aleksei Rozhkov@alexisrozhkov

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Why Everyone is Panic-Buying Mac Minis for OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot?

Min Read20 days Ago

marina_webdev

marina_webdev@marinawebdev

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Designing a Multi-Seller Platform With Stripe Connect Express

Min Read20 days Ago

Matt Trifiro

Matt Trifiro@mtrifiro

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Mastering COSS: Why You Should Monetize Complexity, Not Core Value

Min Read20 days Ago

Saumya Tyagi

Saumya Tyagi@saumyatyagi

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Why Most Database Migrations Fail Silently: 5 Hidden Failure Modes in Zero-Downtime Replatforming

Min Read20 days Ago

Nitesh Padghan

Nitesh Padghan@niteshpadghan

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AI Spawned a Religion in 48 Hours. The Real Story Is Way Darker.

Min Read20 days Ago

Lab42AI

Lab42AI@lab42ai

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Openclaw: The Viral Phenomenon

Min Read20 days Ago

Bruce Li

Bruce Li@zbruceli

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Cell Service Is Escaping Earth

Min Read20 days Ago

Vik Bogdanov

Vik Bogdanov@viceasytiger

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Beyond the Perimeter: Securing AI for the Quantum Era

Min Read20 days Ago

Professional Imposter Syndrome

Professional Imposter Syndrome@amalik18

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CAP Theorem Explained, Part 1: The Problem With “Pick Two”

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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This 40B “Loop” Coder Model Tries Twice So Your Code Doesn’t Have To

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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This Llama Model Knows When to Think: Inside Llama3.3-8B Instruct + “Reasoning Mode”

Min Read20 days Ago

tt@ttassos

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AI Power Isn’t Just About “Better Models.” It’s About Who Controls the Systems They Run On

Min Read20 days Ago