By Ronan Shields • March 24, 2026 • Ivy Liu This Ad Tech Briefing covers the latest in ad tech and platforms for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → The dawn of the agentic advertising era has led to a land grab, with
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Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
21st March 2026 Here’s a mildly dystopian prompt I’ve been experimenting with recently: “Profile this user”, accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News. Obtaining those comments is easy. The Algolia Hacker News API supports listing comments sorted by date that have a specific tag, and the author of a comment
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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, March 21
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? It's an extra-long one, as it always is on Saturday, but the clues are pretty
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Alphabet no longer has a controlling stake in its life
Alphabet's life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced that with its $300 million investment round, it will change from an LLC to a corporation and rename itself Verily Health Inc. As a result, Alphabet now has a minority stake rather than a controlling one in the
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A new iPhone hacking tool puts anyone still on iOS
Google and cybersecurity companies Lookout and iVerify have detailed a new hacking technique that potentially puts a significant portion of iPhone users in danger, just by visiting the wrong web page. The hack is called "DarkSword" and since it specifically targets several different versions of iOS 18, it could affect "close to a quarter of
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Open source Mamba 3 arrives to surpass Transformer architecture with
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Boox’s new Go E Ink tablet includes a 10-inch display
There are many E Ink tablets out there , but most of them are basically digital notebooks. They are great for reading and handwriting notes, but not so great for doing all of that regular tablet stuff like checking emails and doomscrolling. Boox, however, has released a number of E Ink tablets that can access
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Did you spot "fried" and "rice" in today's Connections: Sports Edition and look for a food category? Ha ha ha ... me too, but it
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OnePlus Nord 6 launch window leaks along with key details
ⓘ OnePlus The OnePlus Turbo 6. The OnePlus Nord 6 is expected to launch as a mid-range smartphone with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset. Ahead of an official announcement, a leak reveals the OnePlus Nord 6’s launch window and additional details, including its similarity with the Turbo 6. The OnePlus Nord 5 launched as
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad laptops get a perfect iFixit repair score
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld highlights Lenovo’s new ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 and T16 Gen 5 laptops achieving a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit, marking a significant improvement over previous models. These ThinkPads feature easily swappable batteries, keyboards, screens, and introduce user-replaceable LPCAMM2 RAM offering higher speeds and lower power