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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 24, 2025?
The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Shipped Windows 95 in 1995, The Waffle Iron was Patented in the United States in 1869, Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO due to health reasons. in 2011, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Who Should Handle Your Digital ID? to 10 Years of Ethereum: A Pool Founder on the Merge, the Mining Myths, and What Comes Next, let’s dive right in.
The Dating App Breach That Turned Into a Biometric Black Mirror Episode
By @qryptonic [ 6 Min read ] Teas Firebase misconfiguration exposed 1.1M sensitive messages. Read More.
MCP vs A2A - A Complete Deep Dive
By @mayankc [ 29 Min read ] Deep technical analysis comparing Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols with updated code examples, security insights, and future stan Read More.
The Best AI Web Scraper Tools in 2025: Top Picks, Features Pricing
By @oxylabs [ 7 Min read ] Discover the 8 best AI web scrapers of 2025, from Oxylabs to Octoparse, with features, pricing, and use cases for every skill level and business need. 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.
Optimizing LLM Performance with LM Cache: Architectures, Strategies, and Real-World Applications
By @nileshbh [ 31 Min read ] LM Cache boosts LLM efficiency, scalability, and cost savings by letting the system remember previous outputs and complementing other optimizations. Read More.
ScyllaDB vs Apache Cassandra: A Decade of Evolution, Performance Gains, and New Capabilities
By @scylladb [ 5 Min read ] ScyllaDB has evolved far beyond Apache Cassandra, delivering faster performance, higher elasticity, and unique features for modern data workloads. Read More.
10 Years of Ethereum: A Pool Founder on the Merge, the Mining Myths, and What Comes Next
By @MichaelJerlis [ 4 Min read ] EMCD CEO Evgeny Kitkin talks about how the market has evolved and how the company entered the market. Read More.
How AI Forecasting Helps SMBs Plan Inventory (and Save Costs)
By @boxhero [ 7 Min read ] Learn how AI inventory forecasting helps SMBs cut stockouts and excess stock, with a 30-day rollout, KPI tips (MAPE/WAPE), and a workflow you can run in BoxHero Read More.
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