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Issue No. 521 The Daily Dig, in your inbox by 7am ET

Five stories the crowd promoted past the front page yesterday, one sharp line from our editors, and the one quiet chart the algorithms missed. Read it on the train, the tram, or the treadmill — it lands before your first coffee and disappears by lunch.

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Filed 06:42 ET · Edited 06:58 ET · Sent 07:00 ET · Read in 4 min 11 sec median
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What landed in inboxes this week

Six recent issues, picked at random from the public log. We publish every issue index on GitHub — no paywall, no gating, no disappearing links.

  1. No. 521 07:00 ET

    The EU just forced every algorithm to explain itself. The first front page audit dropped at midnight.

    Editor's note — the report is 214 pages, but page 47 changes everything about how we rank stories. We read it so you don't have to.

    +1,847 upvotes in source thread
  2. No. 520 07:00 ET

    A 14-year-old in Lagos built a faster text-to-speech model than three of the largest labs. The receipts are in the GitHub log.

    Editor's note — the read speed comparison chart on page two is the single clearest explainer we've seen this year.

    +2,304 upvotes in source thread
  3. No. 519 07:00 ET

    Voyager 1's last clean signal, decoded: a single 37-minute audio file that ends with a tone nobody on the team can identify.

    Editor's note — we embedded a spectrogram. Listen with headphones, you won't regret it.

    +3,119 upvotes in source thread
  4. No. 518 07:00 ET

    Why every major newsroom quietly switched to the same transcription vendor last quarter — and what they're paying for it.

    Editor's note — sources confirmed on the record; one editor called it "the least discussed media infrastructure story of 2025."

    +1,512 upvotes in source thread

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