The Brutalist Report

The Register

• QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies [22d]
• Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info [22d]
• NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare [22d]
• Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more [22d]
• China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure [22d]
• The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders [22d]
• Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars [22d]
• Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error [22d]
• Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing' [22d]
• Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on [22d]
• Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem [22d]
• Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026 [22d]
• Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response [22d]
• China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus [22d]
• Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book [23d]
• Snowflake to buy Observe to mitigate customer downtime, as it reckons with its own [23d]
• While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4 [23d]
• As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security [23d]
• ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor [23d]
• Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders [23d]
• Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off [23d]
• Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit [23d]
• Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind [23d]
• Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins [23d]