The Brutalist Report

The Register

• Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists [10d]
• OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra [10d]
• Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail [10d]
• Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China [10d]
• LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key [10d]
• Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year [10d]
• Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug [10d]
• Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Legos [10d]
• Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks [10d]
• Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure [10d]
• UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest [10d]
• Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing [10d]
• Last call for The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington [10d]
• Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry [10d]
• Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech [10d]
• We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue [10d]
• UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba [10d]
• Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall [10d]
• iFixit dismantles Apple's Duo: 'You'd better baby that screen' [10d]
• Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create [10d]
• Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills [10d]
• PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure [10d]
• PHP2Shell: No login, no app code, no warning. What next? [10d]
• 'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens' [10d]
• Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge [10d]
• Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up [11d]
• After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling [11d]