The Brutalist Report

The Register

• OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become [51d]
• Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs [51d]
• Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants [51d]
• NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers [51d]
• JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming [51d]
• Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life [51d]
• Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs [51d]
• HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away [51d]
• Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra [51d]
• Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access [51d]
• YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply [51d]
• Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K [51d]
• Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs [51d]
• Apple pushes Maps ads in free training-wheels business bundle [51d]
• Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models [51d]
• HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops to make them either more useful at work, or a bit creepy [51d]
• AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine [51d]
• EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom [51d]
• 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack [51d]
• Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens [51d]
• LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised [52d]
• AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks [52d]
• Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city [52d]
• Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field [52d]
• Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train [52d]