The Good Tech Companies

By HackerNoon

Distributing the announcements and blogs posts by the the top software, crypto, ai, futurism and technology companies. An audio story feed by HackerNoon.... more

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September 15, 2026 Astar Fi Opens Public Beta to Turn Wallet Trackers Into Something You Can Act On
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Astar Fi, incubated by Astar Foundation, opens its public beta with net-worth tracking plus 848 rated DeFi vaults and tokenized assets.
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Astar Fi, incubated by the Astar Foundation, opened its public beta today after four weeks invite-only. It is a self-custodial personal finance manager: it shows a holder's full onchain net worth, then gives them a curated, risk-rated menu of things to do with it, while the assets never leave their own wallet.
Three functions. Save is the net-worth dashboard. Earn is a picked set of DeFi vaults on Morpho, Aave and Midas, each with a risk tier, an Astar Fi rating, fees, a named oracle, written risks and the contract address. Invest covers crypto on Ethereum and Base plus tokenized stocks, ETFs, gold and silver from issuers including BlackRock, Apollo, Fidelity, Ondo, Paxos and Matrixdock.
The menu at launch: 225 crypto assets, 436 tokenized stock and ETF records, 140 Morpho vaults, 31 Aave markets and 16 Midas products. Astar Fi issues none of them and can lower a rating or pause deposits if conditions change.
Why now: tokenized real-world assets have gone from $5.4 billion to $33.5 billion on-chain in eighteen months, Morpho has tripled in a year and Japan, the beta's first target market, has written a 20 percent crypto tax into law to replace a top rate of 55 percent.
No subscription or trading fee during the beta. Access starts with social login, then a wallet connection. Global availability, Japan first.

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September 15, 2026 How to audit what your AI agents are accessing
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Learn how to audit AI agents with identity-based logging, LLM request tracking, data controls, tool authorization, and pre-request security policies.
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AI agents can make dozens of LLM and tool calls during a single task, creating a visibility problem for enterprises. This article explains how Aperture uses identity-based routing, session tracking, request and response logging, access controls, tool authorization, PII filtering, and spending quotas to make agent activity auditable. The goal is to give security teams a clear record of who accessed what, where data went, what was blocked, and who accessed the resulting logs.

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September 15, 2026 Why Remote Teams Still Struggle to Build Trust, Even When the Meetings Go Fine
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Remote teams can communicate efficiently and still struggle with trust. Learn why informal interaction and social connection infrastructure matter.
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Remote teams have become good at scheduled communication, but many still struggle to build the informal connections that create trust across organizational boundaries. Drawing on Edward Garcia’s Social Connection Architecture framework and Microsoft research on remote collaboration, this article explores why meetings and Slack cannot fully replace spontaneous interaction, mentoring, and cross-team relationships. The answer is not simply returning to the office, but deliberately rebuilding the connection infrastructure remote work removed.

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5min
September 15, 2026 Terragrunt Parallel Apply in GitHub Actions: 2.7× Faster
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How inDrive used dependency graphs and GitHub Actions for Terragrunt parallel apply, achieving 2.7× aggregate speedup over an estimated serial baseline.
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At inDrive, we replaced order.txt with a validated dependency graph and parallel Terragrunt jobs in GitHub Actions. Across 355 rollouts, parallel apply took 64 hours versus an estimated 171 hours for serial execution—a 2.7× aggregate speedup. Small PRs often ran slower, so serial apply remains the default.

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10min
September 14, 2026 ReleasePad Launches MCP Server So AI Agents Can Draft, Publish and Measure Product Changelogs
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Each published entry reaches users in three places at once: inside the product through ReleasePad's 4.3kb in-app widget, on a public changelog page hosted on th
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ReleasePad launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI coding agents to draft, publish, and analyze product changelogs directly from conversations. The MCP server integrates with ReleasePad's changelog software, allowing teams to automate release notes and reach customers through multiple channels.

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4min
September 14, 2026 5 Crypto Mysteries Nobody Has Solved: What's Your Theory?
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From secret ledger messages to vanished fortunes, discover five crypto mysteries that still spark debate and wild theories.

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The crypto world is a trillion-dollar industry with many unsolved cases, including the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto and hackers who attacked exchanges and protocols. Some of these puzzles remain unexplained to date, such as the motivations behind Satoshi's embedded message in the genesis block of Bitcoin.

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10min
September 14, 2026 SecurityMetrics Contributes to GEAR, Shares AI Solutions at the PCI SSC NA 2026 Community Meeting
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SecurityMetrics contributes to GEAR and shares AI solutions at PCI SSC NA Community Meeting.
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SecurityMetrics is contributing to GEAR and announcing AI solutions at this year's PCI SSC NA Community Meeting.

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4min
September 14, 2026 Top 5 AI Code Review Tools 2026
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If AI wrote your code, who's checking its work? Meet 5 tools built to catch what AI reviewers miss, from diffs to intent verification.
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TL;DR: AI shouldn't review its own code, but the right tooling can help. Here are 5 tools built for the AI era: Aviator Verify checks code against approved intent rather than just reading the diff, CodeRabbit offers low-noise diff review with built-in linters, Greptile analyzes whole-repo context for cross-file bugs, Graphite/Diamond understands stacked PRs, and Qodo ties reviews to test coverage gaps. Pick based on your team's biggest pain point, but always keep a human as the final decision-maker.

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7min
September 14, 2026 NBKR Signs CertiK to Secure Kyrgyzstan's Digital Som Ahead of a December Pilot Deadline
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Kyrgyzstan's central bank signs CertiK to secure the digital som CBDC and supervise digital assets, nine days after the president set a December pilot deadline.
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The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic and CertiK have signed a memorandum of understanding covering security for the digital som, Kyrgyzstan's central bank digital currency, plus oversight of the country's wider digital asset sector.
The scope runs from code to courtroom: blockchain and digital asset security, security assessments, formal verification, cybersecurity, operational resilience, AML/CFT, custody, security standards, licensing requirements and the possible deployment of CertiK's Supervision and Compliance tooling for ongoing risk monitoring.
The timing is not accidental. On 5 September President Sadyr Japarov ordered the central bank to have a basic digital som platform built and piloted by 31 December 2026, with real-world testing in 2027 and a phased national rollout after that.
134 countries are studying a CBDC and three have one live for the public. The digital som has been legal tender since April 2025, which puts Kyrgyzstan closer to the finish line than most of the 134.
CertiK says it has protected more than $600 billion of digital assets across 150-plus countries since 2017; its own Hack3d data shows $3.35 billion lost to hacks and scams in 2025 and $1.32 billion in the first half of 2026, with stolen keys and wallets the single most expensive category.

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9min
September 14, 2026 BRKZ Raises $31 Million From Aramco's Wa'ed and 500 Global to Scale AI Procurement
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BRKZ secures $13M Series B led by Wa'ed Ventures and 500 Global plus $18M Stride debt, as the Saudi AI procurement platform triples revenue again in 2026.
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BRKZ, the Riyadh-based building materials procurement platform, has secured $31 million in new capital: a $13 million Series B co-led by Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures and 500 Global, with BECO Capital and Anb Seed Fund participating, plus an $18 million growth-debt commitment from Stride Ventures drawn under the $30 million facility agreed in October 2025.
Revenue grew 2.5x in 2025 on top of 4x in 2024 and is on track to triple again in 2026, a run recorded through a year of regional supply-chain disruption.
The platform now serves more than 1,500 contracting companies and 150 factories through roughly 2,100 suppliers, has sold more than $133 million (SAR 500 million) of materials and has priced more than $1.37 billion (SAR 5.13 billion) of RFQs since inception.
An AI pricing engine trained on about 40,000 RFQs now lands 84 to 89 percent of its predictions within 5 percent of the final transacted price, while an agent called Nusa closes roughly three-quarters of bulk-cement delivery notes without human intervention.
Total capital raised since inception now exceeds $70 million across equity and debt, with the Series B still open to additional strategic investors.

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14min

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