January 24, 2025

AR/VR

Gaming comedy Mythic Quest Season 4 debuts on January 29 on Apple TV+

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Season 4 of a TV show is not something I write about very often, given my focus is video games. But Season 4 of Mythic Quest is another matter. Debuting with the first two episodes on January 29 on Apple TV+, the show brings back the workplace comedy about a video game studio. The ensemble cast

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Hardware

The first GeForce RTX 5090 has been damaged: by ASUS PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim mechanism

TL;DR: ASUS’s new PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim mechanism on Intel 800 and AMD 800 series motherboards is causing damage to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards. The removal of a dedicated release button has led to difficulties in card removal, prompting user complaints and a promise from ASUS to address the issue. ASUS is some hot water with its new “PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim” mechanism on its new Intel 800 and AMD 800 series motherboards,

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Cold Calling? STOP Asking to Speak With the “Decision-Maker” | HackerNoon

Entrepreneurs, hustlers, and biz dev guys: Bedazzled by all the so-2025-shiny-new-thing growth hacks (AI automation, becoming an “influencer,” etc.), are you perhaps ignoring what might make the most difference today? Making a Cold Call to a Prospect Business-to-business sales (B2B) is a difficult nut to crack, especially if you’re used to dealing with decision-makers for smaller or local companies only. Why does it seem like every startup is antsy to gobble up your helpful services,

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Software

OSYS CRM Redefines Proprietary Trading With Its Latest Integration | HackerNoon

OSYS CRM Redefines Proprietary Trading with Its Latest Integration OSYS CRM has unveiled an advanced integration designed to empower trading firms with cutting-edge technology. By combining real-time analytics, centralized management tools, and enhanced security protocols, this new solution addresses the challenges of modern proprietary trading. Trading firms now have access to a versatile platform that streamlines operations, safeguards sensitive data, and enables strategic growth—all while remaining adaptable to the demands of a fast-evolving financial market.

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Software

Tailor Your Data Visualization Design Choices for Key Stakeholders to Create Organizational Buy-In | HackerNoon

What Are We Talking About? The power of data visualization lies in its ability to simplify complexity, making even the most intricate datasets accessible and comprehensible to a wide audience. In modern organizations, visualization isn’t just a tool for analysis – it’s a key method of communication that bridges the gap between data experts and decision-makers. Effective visualizations don’t just make data look appealing; they transform raw data into actionable insights that allow decision-makers to

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KTON Targets $6.12 Billion Liquid Staking Opportunity On TON, Tapping Telegram’s 950 Million Users | HackerNoon

New York, United States – 9:00AM, January 24, 2025 –KTON,an institutional-grade liquid staking protocol incubated by TONX, the leading TON-focused venture studio backed by top VC firms from the Asia-Pacific region, is gearing up for its V1 launch in February 2025. TONX, which recently unveiled a $5M accelerator program to foster innovation within the TON and Telegram ecosystem, is behind TONX API, the leading developer platform trusted by Blum, Catizen, Google Cloud, and over 20 leading

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Software

When Knowledge Creates Doubt: Explaining the Expertise Paradox | HackerNoon

Every entrepreneur dreams of mastery. Of reaching that point where decisions feel easy, where success feels certain, where expertise eliminates doubt. But there’s a hidden cost to deep expertise that nobody talks about – one that becomes more apparent the more successful you become. The more you learn about building companies, the harder decisions get. The more you understand your market, the less certain you feel. And counterintuitively, this growing uncertainty isn’t a sign that you’re doing something wrong. It’s evidence

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AR/VR

Tech leaders respond to the rapid rise of DeepSeek

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis (quant) firm High-Flyer Capital Management, has sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and the wider world with its release earlier this week of a new open source large reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, which matches OpenAI’s most powerful available

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AR/VR

OpenAI: Extending model ‘thinking time’ helps combat emerging cyber vulnerabilities

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Typically, developers focus on reducing inference time — the period between when AI receives a prompt and provides an answer — to get at faster insights.  But when it comes to adversarial robustness, OpenAI researchers say: Not so fast. They propose that increasing the amount of time a model has to “think” — inference time compute

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