My Daily Digest

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

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Business

The Bottom Line
BBC News/Just now

How does the antiques industry work and is it accurately portrayed on television shows?

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IT / AI

Huawei made a whole camera to attach to its latest phone
The Verge/1h ago

Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses for their flagship phones, enabling long-distance photography that the phones on their own co…

The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
The Verge/2h ago

On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents. For weeks, he had been going on TV and posting online to tout his projec…

Quoting Matthew Green
Simon Willison's Weblog/5h 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/10h 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/11h 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/12h 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/14h 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

Disney+ & Indonesia’s Vidio Launch Subscription Bundle
NEWDeadline/Just now

Disney+’s international strategy of teaming with local streamers just reached Indonesia. The global streamer and Indonesian market leader Vidio have joined forces to launch a subscription bundle, marking a first such col…