The Brutalist Report

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• Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' [8d]
• VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade [8d]
• Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say [8d]
• Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November [8d]
• AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip [8d]
• With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race [8d]
• AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit [8d]
• Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI [8d]
• SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again [8d]
• Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook [8d]
• NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science [8d]
• Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill [8d]
• Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers [8d]
• Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 [8d]
• Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' [8d]
• Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return [8d]
• Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return [8d]
• Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs [8d]
• A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter [8d]
• London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above [8d]
• UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme [9d]
• Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition [9d]
• UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it [9d]
• UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on [9d]
• Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss [9d]
• Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025 [9d]