March 17, 2025

Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup | TechCrunch

Creating a startup that competes with your former employer can be risky. Apple, for example, once sued a former chip design executive who founded his own chip startup in a case that was dropped in 2023. A recent case involving logistics unicorn Flexport and a new competitor formed by two former employees sheds light on those risks. Flexport is suing the pair alleging that they stole thousands of its documents along with its source code to create their

Read More »
Robotics

Dobot enters the humanoid robot race with Atom – The Robot Report

[embedded content] Dobot, a Chinese developer of collaborative robot arms, recently announced it developed a humanoid robot called Atom. The company is entering an increasingly crowded and still young market. Dobot hasn’t shared much about Atom yet, but it has shared a few videos of the robot operating autonomously. Atom has 28 degrees of freedom and ±0.05mm precision, giving it the ability to handle delicate tasks. It also works with straight knees, reducing energy consumption

Read More »
Software

AI Honeypots Are the Future of Cybersecurity | HackerNoon

Photo by Carla Quario on Unsplash Responding to cybersecurity threats means a company must be five steps ahead of the hackers. Clone traps, a vanguard in deception technology, automate threat response by deceiving the deceivers and fighting AI with AI. By the end of 2024, there were 240,830 live cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures(CVE): These are only the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, and there may be many more. In the first half of 2024  new common CVEs identification represented a

Read More »

YC-backed ReactWise is applying AI to speed up drug manufacturing | TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: Y Combinator-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is using AI to speed up chemical manufacturing — a key step in bringing new drugs to market. Once a promising drug has been identified in the lab, pharma firms need to be able to produce much larger amounts of the material to run clinical trials. This is where ReactWise is offering to step in with its “AI copilot for

Read More »

Rules Over Followers: BYDFi’s Official Response to ExtraVOD’s False Allegations | HackerNoon

Victoria, Seychelles, March 17th, 2025/Chainwire/–Recently, BYDFi has noticed misleading accusations made by the content creator ExtraVOD on social media against BYDFi. To ensure transparency and clarity for all users, BYDFi would like to present the facts of the situation: January 25: Detection of Abnormal Trading Activity When ExtraVOD’s first account reached the perpetual risk limit, he opened a second account to bypass restrictions. BYDFi identified abnormal trading activities and ExtraVOD was reminded of BYDFi’s User

Read More »

Meet AWS Marketplace: HackerNoon Company of the Week | HackerNoon

Welcome to another edition of HackerNoon Company of the Week! Every week, we spotlight a fabulous company from our Tech Company Database, showcasing those making a significant impact on the global tech scene and in the lives of their users. This one-of-a-kind HackerNoon database ranks everything from S&P 500 giants to the most promising startups of the year. This week, we proudly presentAWS Marketplace – a one-of-a-kind online store that connects businesses with thousands of

Read More »

Inworld AI showcases AI case studies as they move to production

The current AI ecosystem wasn’t built with game developers in mind. While impressive in controlled demos, today’s AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games, said Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld AI, in an interview with GamesBeat. Right now, AI deployment is being slowed because game developers are dependent on black-box APIs with unpredictable pricing and shifting terms, leading to a loss of autonomy and stalled innovation, he said. Players are left with

Read More »
Robotics

Flexiv expands Singapore operations to bring more robots to a growing market – The Robot Report

Founded in 2016, Flexiv has established offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, and Singapore. | Source: Flexiv Flexiv last week announced the expansion of its operations in Singapore, a key market for the company. To accommodate its growing team and meet rising customer demand, Flexiv Singapore recently relocated to a larger facility within Singapore Science Park 1. The company said this strategic expansion reflects both the increasing popularity of robotic automation solutions in the

Read More »

Game studios deal with uncertainty by doing more with less | Unity

Unity said in its annual report that game developers faced with uncertainty are doing more with less resources. The last few years have been a difficult time in game development, said Unity, maker of the Unity 6 game engine. The industry is still massive, with over three billion global active players. Games grossed over $184 billion in 2024, easily out-earning TV and movies. Yet there’s a grimmer set of numbers, too, the tallies of layoffs,

Read More »