Home Computing News The site that couldn't beat Reddit just found a completely different game to play. Rachit Agarwal Digg is one of the more interesting tech stories in recent times. The site launched as a Reddit rival in January 2026, shut down just two months later after getting overrun by bots, and has now returned as something completely different. Founder Kevin Rose showcased the redesigned Digg last Friday, and the new site looks nothing like its previous version. It’s not a Reddit competitor anymore. It’s an AI news aggregator. So what does the new Digg actually do? The site tracks and ranks AI news by monitoring real-time engagement on X . Instead of relying on votes or comments on Digg itself, the site ingests content from X and runs sentiment analysis, signal detection, and clustering to figure out what stories actually matter.…