The Brutalist Report

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• Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you [6d]
• AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets [6d]
• ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk [6d]
• Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident [6d]
• My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement [6d]
• Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels [6d]
• Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers [6d]
• PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries [6d]
• JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up [6d]
• Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox [6d]
• Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides [6d]
• Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 [7d]
• US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave [7d]
• UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo [7d]
• Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money? [7d]
• On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key [7d]
• Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud [7d]
• The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech [7d]
• Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release [7d]