The Brutalist Report

The Register

• Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs [7d]
• Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets [7d]
• Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity [7d]
• Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway [8d]
• Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI [8d]
• 1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials [8d]
• Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool [8d]
• We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to [8d]
• DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year [8d]
• Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops [8d]
• AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned [8d]
• Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help [8d]
• IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested [8d]
• UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn [8d]
• It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet [8d]
• AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops - which could cost 500,00 tokens per click [8d]
• UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones [8d]
• It's game over for Copilot on Xbox [8d]
• Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill [8d]
• Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads [8d]
• GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet [8d]
• India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree [8d]
• Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors [8d]
• Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration [8d]
• Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend [8d]
• AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click [8d]
• OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year [8d]
• Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb [8d]
• Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch [8d]
• Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents [8d]
• India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree [8d]
• IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf [8d]
• ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower [8d]