The Brutalist Report

The Register

• Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US [7d]
• As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs [7d]
• NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage [7d]
• AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first [7d]
• SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics [7d]
• UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now [7d]
• Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers [7d]
• IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol [7d]
• Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records [7d]
• UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act [7d]
• Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost [7d]
• Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks [7d]
• Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India’s first fab [7d]
• Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut [8d]
• Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix [8d]
• VCs plow $475M into Unconventional AI to make datacenter power problems go away [8d]
• Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level [8d]
• DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote [8d]
• Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger [8d]
• ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software [8d]
• 193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service' [8d]
• Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future [8d]
• Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered [8d]
• Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years [8d]
• IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse [8d]