The Brutalist Report

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• 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]