The Brutalist Report

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• France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach [16d]
• Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version [16d]
• 'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work [16d]
• AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits [17d]
• Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around [17d]
• Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients [17d]
• Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details [17d]
• UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work [17d]
• UK government told to stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban [17d]
• Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets [17d]
• Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab [17d]
• Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea [17d]
• Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security [17d]
• India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row [17d]
• Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue [17d]
• Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format [17d]
• Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm [17d]
• Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows [17d]
• Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack [17d]
• Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder [17d]
• Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay [17d]
• SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble [17d]
• Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services [17d]
• AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030 [17d]
• Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades [17d]