The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem [85d]
• A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions [85d]
• Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital [85d]
• DNA and jolts of electricity get people to make optimal antibodies [85d]
• The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but it’s not a phone [85d]
• Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities [85d]
• Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny [85d]
• EU accuses Meta of violating content rules in move that could anger Trump [85d]
• Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships [85d]
• Rivian is settling $250 million lawsuit to focus on next year’s R2 EV [85d]
• Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing [85d]
• DNA analysis reveals likely pathogens that killed Napoleon’s army [85d]
• This browser claims “perfect privacies protection,” but it acts like malware [85d]
• Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House [85d]
• Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA’s Moon rocket fully stacked [85d]