The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 2211 points and 1321 comments. Posted 2025-10-29 18:57.

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Hacker News discussion with 941 points and 621 comments. Posted 2025-10-30 15:07.

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Hacker News discussion with 1212 points and 793 comments. Posted 2025-10-30 15:54.

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Hacker News discussion with 940 points and 408 comments. Posted 2025-11-02 22:32.

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Hacker News discussion with 823 points and 531 comments. Posted 2025-11-02 18:54.

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Hacker News discussion with 901 points and 118 comments. Posted 2025-11-04 22:57.

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Users will now be able to access AI Mode via a new dedicated shortcut button under the search bar when opening a "New Tab" page in Chrome.

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Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini ap...

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The MPA states that its movie-rating system can't be compared to Meta's content restrictions, which it says "appear to rely heavily on artificial intelligence."

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Tinder is testing an AI feature that learns about you from your Camera Roll photos.

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Alloy Enterprises has developed a new additive manufacturing technique that can improve liquid cooling performance while bringing it to new parts of the server rack.

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The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.

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Google engineers think they already have all the pieces needed to build a data center in orbit.

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Penn experienced a data breach on Friday as hackers sent messages boasting of the hack to the university community.

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Google announced its intent to acquire cloud security company Wiz in March and the deal is now on track to close in early 2026.

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Google will make several changes to Android app support globally, supported through at least 2032.

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Gemini is rolling out to Maps on Android and iOS, with Android Auto coming soon.

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A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.

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Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.

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Research paper by Hakob Tamazyan, Ani Vanyan, Alvard Barseghyan et al.. The number and diversity of remote sensing satellites grows over time, while the vast majority of labeled data comes from older ...

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Research paper by Huawei Lin, Yunzhi Shi, Tong Geng et al.. Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities but remain limited to fixed modality pairs and require costly fine-t...

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Research paper by Abhishek Panigrahi, Bingbin Liu, Sadhika Malladi et al.. Knowledge distillation is an efficient strategy to use data generated by large "teacher" language models to train smaller cap...

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If you’ve been reluctant to update to the new Apple Home architecture, you now have a few more months before Apple forces your hand. Apple has pushed back the deadline to February 10, 2026, rather tha...

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Black Friday will bring huge discounts on all sorts of tech. But sometimes you just can’t wait, especially if you just lost your last pair of earbuds, or perhaps they no longer hold a charge. If you n...

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Lawmakers' calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

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Another AI-powered wearable is coming to market. It’s not a pendant like Friend, nor a wristband like Amazon’s Bee. This time, it’s a smart ring called the Stream Ring from the company Sandbar founded...

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The "beauty backfire effect" is especially strong in the fitness space.

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Up to 700 kW regen braking, new Bridgestone tires, and it's even fully recyclable.

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Research paper by Yanjie Ze, Siheng Zhao, Weizhuo Wang et al.. Large-scale data has driven breakthroughs in robotics, from language models to vision-language-action models in bimanual manipulation. Ho...

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Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens’ activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive con...

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Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin. And despite being designed around random chance, it has a vibrant speedrunning community, racing to see who can get to 10 heads the fastest. That's the on...

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Nintendo is stepping further away from its original Switch console, with the company now planning to dedicate most of its attention to its successor. In a financial results briefing on Wednesday, Nint...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 98 upvotes and 35 comments.

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If you’ve ever had to leave your car parked for a few days while traveling — or returned to find a new dent that wasn’t there before — Baseus’ PrimeTrip VD1 Pro might be worth checking out. The dash c...

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If you want a great laptop, you’re going to have to fork over a ton of money, right? Not necessarily. There are dozens of good laptops on the market at various price points. However, it can feel overw...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 12210 upvotes and 341 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 93 upvotes and 13 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 3359 upvotes and 126 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/MachineLearning with 184 upvotes and 14 comments.