The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 2241 points and 2049 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 07:22.

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Hacker News discussion with 1783 points and 400 comments. Posted 2025-10-20 04:42.

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Hacker News discussion with 1441 points and 669 comments. Posted 2025-10-22 20:53.

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Hacker News discussion with 1290 points and 387 comments. Posted 2025-10-22 14:53.

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Hacker News discussion with 1016 points and 1171 comments. Posted 2025-10-23 15:41.

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

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New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity promise to increase user productivity, but they also come with increased security risks.

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The browser wars are heating up again, this time with AI in the driver’s seat.  OpenAI just launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser that lets users surf the web using natural language, and even...

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The European Commission said on Friday that it has preliminarily found that both companies are not complying with rules of the Digital Services Act (DSA) that mandate them to give researchers adequate...

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This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning...

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Earlier this week, Jon Prosser, who is being sued by Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets, told The Verge that he has been “in active communications with Apple since the beginning stages of this...

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The revolving door reportedly reflects deeper tensions.

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Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.

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Money means access to power—and tech has plenty of money.

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Research paper by Nimrod Berman, Omkar Joglekar, Eitan Kosman et al.. Recent advances in generative modeling have positioned diffusion models as state-of-the-art tools for sampling from complex data d...

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As demand for electricity from data centers grows, Arbor Energy has made its power plant capable of burning natural gas in addition to biomass.

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Halo Studios has created something special for the 25th anniversary of Halo next year. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a full remake of the original Combat Evolved that launched alongside Microsoft’s first ...

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A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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Gaming laptops come in various shapes and sizes, though many of the heavy hitters remain thick and beefy machines that maximize cooling to get the most out of their powerful chips. Most are awash in R...

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With this new feature, users can go back and find videos they might not have had the chance to save.

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Marine mammals are being forced into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.

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In new research, AI models show a troubling tendency to agree with whatever the user says.

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A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

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The 61-year-old had wounds all over, a bacterial infection, and needed intensive care.

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If we ID the DNA for a great antibody, anyone can now make it.

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Research paper by Guocheng Gordon Qian, Ruihang Zhang, Tsai-Shien Chen et al.. Despite their impressive visual fidelity, existing personalized generative models lack interactive control over spatial c...

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Research paper by Mateo Guaman Castro, Sidharth Rajagopal, Daniel Gorbatov et al.. A fundamental challenge in robot navigation lies in learning policies that generalize across diverse environments whi...

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This e-reader has a color screen and 5G.

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The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic.

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During a recent all-hands meeting, Waymo's chief winter weather expert laid it out for all the company's engineers and product managers: if Waymo wants to expand to new cities and new markets, it's ro...

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Want to flex your Wordle habit beyond just keeping your streak? The New York Times has added badges to recognize certain achievements in Wordle, Spelling Bee, and Connections. “Have you achieved the i...

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Research paper by Yihao Meng, Hao Ouyang, Yue Yu et al.. State-of-the-art text-to-video models excel at generating isolated clips but fall short of creating the coherent, multi-shot narratives, which ...

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When people sign up for a dating site like Tinder, they don't expect their profiles and personal information to be searchable - especially by a scorned lover, or worse. But that's what popular apps li...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 510 upvotes and 104 comments.

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It's dusk, and bugs are chirping all around me. I'm wandering through the middle of a big, virtual swamp toward the sound of thumping bass off in the distance. There isn't much else nearby - some tree...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 178 upvotes and 30 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 34501 upvotes and 626 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 824 upvotes and 304 comments.

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Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) was introduced by DeepSeek-V2 in 2024. The idea is to project keys and values into a latent space and perform attention there, which drastically reduces complexity. W...