The Brutalist Report

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• Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you [6d]
• AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets [6d]
• ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk [6d]
• Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident [6d]
• My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement [6d]
• Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels [6d]
• Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers [6d]
• PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries [6d]
• JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up [6d]