The Brutalist Report

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• North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist [2d]
• Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing [2d]
• Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang [2d]
• British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted [2d]
• AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization [2d]
• GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather [2d]
• Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries [2d]
• Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why [2d]
• GhostBSD 26.2 takes the fright out of FreeBSD with a friendlier installer [2d]
• ShinyHunters hit 850k alumni, donors, students, and fam in last year's Harvard University raid [2d]
• Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI [2d]
• NHS counts Palantir benefits at trusts that say they're not using it [2d]
• Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station [2d]
• Virgin Media O2 outlines plans to lay off thousands as revenue falls [2d]
• Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028 [2d]
• Apple's Mac business is booming, but the memory market has other plans [2d]
• Broadcom denied names of cloud providers backing VMware merger challenge [2d]
• UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog [2d]
• Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round [2d]
• Final_FINAL_v7.docx is not a version control strategy [2d]
• Everyone has the file. Nobody has the right version. [2d]
• Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights [2d]
• Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner [2d]
• Open models can do 90 percent of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner [2d]
• Architect creates open-source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden [2d]
• Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory [2d]