The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 1416 points and 459 comments. Posted 2025-11-16 00:01.

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Hacker News discussion with 2428 points and 1643 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 11:35.

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Hacker News discussion with 1453 points and 901 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 23:31.

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Hacker News discussion with 1373 points and 381 comments. Posted 2025-11-14 18:35.

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Hacker News discussion with 1813 points and 443 comments. Posted 2025-11-15 10:30.

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Hacker News discussion with 1709 points and 1044 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 15:09.

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Google's Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.

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SpaceX had big plans for the upgraded Starship vehicle that failed on Friday morning.

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Salesforce said it’s investigating an incident where hackers compromised some of its customers' data after breaching customer experience company Gainsight.

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The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.

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The company is pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn.

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Joby alleges one of its former employees shared stolen trade secrets when he was hired by Archer.

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The quickly growing prediction betting market raised fresh capital from Sequoia and CapitalG, according to someone familiar with the deal.

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Google is expanding its real-time scam-detection and screen-sharing fraud warnings in India.

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"Does the world really need a 151st rocket company?"

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Research paper by George Cazenavette, Antonio Torralba, Vincent Sitzmann. The task of dataset distillation aims to find a small set of synthetic images such that training a model on them reproduces th...

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Research paper by Omkat Thawakar, Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar et al.. Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled impressive reasoning and perception abilities, yet most exi...

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WhatsApp users can now share their status with others through a new "About" feature.

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It was really easy getting Google's Gemini app to make an image of a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, the White House ablaze, and Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers. We asked and it compl...

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The company sees group chats in ChatGPT as a way for people to coordinate trips, co-write documents, settle debates, or work through research together, while ChatGPT helps search, summarize, and compa...

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ByHeart said "there's no reason to believe" until its own testing found a reason.

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According to Grok, Elon Musk can out-slug the MLB's greatest power hitters... except Ohtani.

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I gave Google's new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn't ask it to, but the AI model evidently decided my greetings card would look better with more skin. Nano Banan...

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Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, you can route requests throug...

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Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 89 upvotes and 6 comments.

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Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.

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It’s no secret that Elon Musk shapes the X social platform and X’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI chatbot to his preferences. But it’s possible Musk may have needed a bit of an extra ego boost this...

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Black Friday is the most anticipated day of the year for bargain hunters. While there’s still some time to go before November 28th, we’ve already found a healthy selection of early discounts, allosign...

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Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a room, have so far been...

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Research paper by Jing Wen, Alexander G. Schwing, Shenlong Wang. We tackle the task of recovering an animatable 3D human avatar from a single or a sparse set of images. For this task, beyond a set of ...

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HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

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Research paper by Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Hongyu Li et al.. Recent advances in visual generation have increasingly explored the integration of reasoning capabilities. They incorporate textual reasonin...

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Arizona's economy was once dominated by the "five C's": cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New semiconductor manufactur...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 18451 upvotes and 2026 comments.

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When Jon M. Chu first announced that his big-screen Wicked adaptation would be split into two parts, there was concern about whether the original musical's second act could be fashioned into a fully f...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 1209 upvotes and 75 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 782 upvotes and 172 comments.

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The core innovation is the introduction of **Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS)**, a new task that fundamentally expands the capabilities of the SAM series. Unlike its predecessors, which segmented...