The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 1418 points and 459 comments. Posted 2025-11-16 00:01.

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Hacker News discussion with 2429 points and 1645 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 11:35.

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Hacker News discussion with 1459 points and 904 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 23:31.

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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 1716 points and 1047 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 15:09.

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Hacker News discussion with 1233 points and 652 comments. Posted 2025-11-20 15:04.

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The startup’s rapid growth suggests that enerprises are embracing AI agents.

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Notorious hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes credit for the breach that affected Salesforce customers’ data, and said it is planning another extortion campaign.

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Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

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We compiled all the hottest AI wearables currently available, including Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

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Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike denied it had been hacked following claims from a hacker group, which leaked screenshots from inside CrowdStrike's network.

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Curiosity Stream's owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

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Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that.

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Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."

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Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here's what we're doing about it, and what you can look out for.

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Four arrested and charged with illegal exports, smuggling, and money laundering.

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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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Phictly helps fans find niche clubs for their favorite books, shows, and movies, offering intimate, spoiler-safe communities with flexible pacing and tracker tools.

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So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.

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Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and...

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While tuberculosis can attack anywhere, it's extremely rare on the penis.

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There are fan-made browser versions of Red Alert, Unreal Tournament, and more.

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The feature will show where users are based, how they're connected to X, and how many times they've changed their username.

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The revamped organizational structure cut at least one office authorized by Congress, which could spur legal challenges.

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Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she decides whether Google needs to be broken up to remedy its ad tech monopoly. B...

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Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and tablets. FSE l...

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The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender a...

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Nothing’s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch of new features to its phones, including its own spin on Google’s Live Updates. With Nothing OS 4.0, users can track a delivery, ride, or timer...

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Hear me out: Kirby Air Riders isn't a racing game, it's an art tool with a racing game tacked on. The game, out now for the Nintendo Switch 2, is the follow-up to the quirky Kirby-flavored kart racer ...

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Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 26275 upvotes and 2425 comments.

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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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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 2167 upvotes and 1483 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 71 upvotes and 4 comments.

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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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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be the most exhausting. Between hunting for gifts and getting the house ready for guests, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, we’re alre...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 26718 upvotes and 1679 comments.

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Hey Folks! Feeling anxious, confused and thought to reach out for some advice here. I am 1.5 yrs out of finishing a PhD in AI/ML from USA but do not have stellar publication record. I'm in mid thirtie...