About The Daily Brief
The Daily Brief — Tech Edition is a small, independent digest of technology news, published once each morning from Melbourne, Australia. It exists to give technologists a single, quiet page to skim before the day starts — no infinite feed, no notifications, no engagement tactics, no push to comment.
Editorial position
Each edition is assembled at 06:00 Melbourne local time from four wires: Ars Technica, The Register, Phoronix, and the front page of Hacker News filtered to stories with substantive community attention. Headlines link directly to the originating publication. Where a discussion of substance exists, it is linked beneath the summary as a secondary reference. The Brief does not republish article bodies; only short editorial summaries derived from each publication’s own feed.
What this site does not do
- No advertising. No tracking. No analytics.
- No JavaScript on the rendered pages.
- No user-submitted content, no comment system, no forum.
- No newsletter, no notifications, no app.
How it’s built
The site is a static HTML build, regenerated daily from JSON snapshots committed to a public version history. Every edition is permanent and dated; once filed, a story’s page does not change. You can browse every prior edition under Archive.
Letters to the editor
Corrections, suggestions, source recommendations, takedown requests: [email protected].