The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs [23m]
• Spotify seizes the day after Apple is forced to allow external payments [48m]
• Epic Games Store completely eliminates revenue fees for smaller developers [1h]
• Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit [2h]
• Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026 [2h]
• DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations [4h]
• Rocket Report: Starbase the city is coming soon; Alpha remains in beta [5h]
• “Older than Google,” this Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years [5h]
• Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests [18h]
• Phishing attacks that defeat MFA are easier than ever. So what are we to do? [19h]
• New study accuses LM Arena of gaming its popular AI benchmark [19h]
• Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits [20h]
• New material may help us build Predator-style thermal vision specs [20h]
• Sen. Susan Collins blasts Trump for cuts to scientific research [21h]
• The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage: Achingly beautiful and thrilling to drive [21h]
• Neanderthals invented their own bone weapon technology by 80,000 years ago [22h]
• Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots [23h]
• Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet [23h]
• Meet the winners of the 2025 Dance Your PhD contest [23h]
• Tesla denies trying to replace Elon Musk as CEO [23h]