The Brutalist Report

The Register

• Meta offered one AI researcher an eight-figure salary to join up [8d]
• PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline [8d]
• Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks [8d]
• The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives [8d]
• Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD [8d]
• Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers [8d]
• Danish department determined to dump Microsoft [8d]
• UK unis cough up £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs [8d]
• Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays [8d]
• Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home [8d]
• User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died [8d]
• UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions [8d]
• Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches [8d]
• I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world [8d]
• Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks [8d]
• Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay [8d]
• Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs [8d]
• US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws [9d]
• Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads [9d]
• Global Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it [9d]
• Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash [9d]
• TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo [9d]
• AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030 [9d]
• AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144 [9d]
• CISA loses another senior exec - and the budget cuts haven't even started yet [9d]
• Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground [9d]