My Daily Digest

Thursday  ·  01 October 2026
299 stories in the last 24h
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World

UK house price growth halves amid rising mortgage interest rates
NEWWorld news | The Guardian/1h ago

Prices fell by 0.2% month on month in September as average price of a home slipped to £274,251, says NationwideBusiness live – latest updatesAnnual house price growth halved in the UK last month, as economic uncertainty …

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Business

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IT / AI

Quoting Matthew Green
Simon Willison's Weblog/1h ago

[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that…

Vivo’s X Fold 6 accidentally feels like a throwback
The Verge/6h ago

It's a quirk of the release calendar that when Vivo's X Fold 6 launched in China this June, it was just another foldable. Now that it's ready for its global release, the size and aspect ratio feel oddly old-fashioned. Th…

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
The Verge/7h ago

Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and…

The new and huger Paramount has a new co-CEO
The Verge/8h ago

Paramount is appointing a new co-CEO ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ynon Kreiz, previously Mattel's chairman and CEO, will be joining Paramount to lead alongside chairman and C…

He Built This City
Simon Willison's Weblog/10h ago

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model, the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard. It exceeded my alread…

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Film