The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 2232 points and 2031 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 07:22.

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Hacker News discussion with 1752 points and 511 comments. Posted 2025-10-16 20:22.

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Hacker News discussion with 1136 points and 624 comments. Posted 2025-10-17 10:00.

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Apple has pulled the controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store over violations of its content moderation and privacy rules, following a flood of user complaints and reports ...

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Hacker News discussion with 1758 points and 398 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 04:42.

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Hacker News discussion with 1204 points and 1106 comments. Posted 2025-10-17 17:24.

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Hacker News discussion with 1079 points and 12 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 07:11.

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Cloud monitoring platform Datadog launched Updog, a web dashboard that shows the live health status of various SaaS APIs.

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GM is the latest automaker to lean into generative AI-based assistants that promise to respond to driver requests in a more natural-sounding way. Stellantis is collaborating with French AI firm Mistra...

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Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a sol...

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Instagram introduced custom app icons for its teen accounts, but not everyone is thrilled. In replies to the company’s post on X, users criticized the feature for being age-gated, arguing that adults ...

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An approach it calls "quantum echoes" takes 13,000 times longer on a supercomputer.

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The pedal-assist cargo quad vehicles are narrow delivery vans that can operate in a bike lane.

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The first in a lineup of new vehicles from Also, which started as a skunkworks project inside of Rivian a few years ago.

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The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.

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MacOS version launches today, includes Agent Mode preview to "use the Internet for you."

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Research paper by Howard Chen, Noam Razin, Karthik Narasimhan et al.. Adapting language models (LMs) to new tasks via post-training carries the risk of degrading existing capabilities -- a phenomenon ...

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"Sean said that NASA might benefit from being part of the Cabinet."

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Apple backs down from some aspects of Liquid Glass, but not others.

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Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to ge...

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If you’re looking to play games like Ghost of Yōtei or Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, you’re going to need a PlayStation 5. Luckily, right now, you can grab the console for as low as $374 directly t...

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GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra. In a Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nila...

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Research paper by Ziang Zhang, Zehan Wang, Guanghao Zhang et al.. Reasoning about dynamic spatial relationships is essential, as both observers and objects often move simultaneously. Although vision-l...

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Likeness detection will flag possible AI fakes, but Google doesn't guarantee removal.

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Incident was likely the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history.

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Norwegian director Roar Uthaug's sequel to his 2022 film Troll knows to not take itself too seriously.

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Research paper by Haochen Wang, Yuhao Wang, Tao Zhang et al.. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at holistic understanding, they struggle in capturing the dense world with complex sc...

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Research paper by Akshat Gupta, Jay Yeung, Gopala Anumanchipalli et al.. Growing evidence suggests that large language models do not use their depth uniformly, yet we still lack a fine-grained underst...

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The ongoing shutdown also means no new drug submissions are being accepted.

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Jamie Siminoff has returned to Ring, the company he founded, with a renewed focus on its mission statement to "Make neighborhoods safer." Talking to The Verge ahead of the release of his new book Ding...

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Before RJ Scaringe founded the adventure-themed EV company Rivian, he was thinking about bikes. Well, not bikes exactly. More like pedal-powered hybrid microcars and other forms of alternative transpo...

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The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phon...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 103 upvotes and 115 comments.

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Rivian’s micromobility spinoff Also has just taken the wraps off its TM-B e-bike, TM-Q pedal-assisted electric quad bike, and Alpha Wave helmet that represents “a breakthrough in rider safety and conn...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 6365 upvotes and 430 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 2132 upvotes and 203 comments.

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When it comes to inventive USB-C accessories with rad designs, nobody does it like Sharge. Now it’s following up its classic Mac-inspired chargers, its Braun turntable-inspired battery, and whatever t...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 846 upvotes and 187 comments.

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[https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3328966/ai-powered-fraud-chinese-paper-mills-are-mass-producing-fake-academic-research](https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3328966/ai-powered-...