The Brutalist Report

TechRadar

• It’s finally happened — renewable energy just overtook coal as the world’s main source of electricity as solar growth hits 'the largest ever observed for any source' [44d]
• NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, April 23 (game #1047) [44d]
• Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, April 23 (game #1550) [44d]
• NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, April 23 (game #781) [44d]
• I counted every gadget in my home for Earth Day — and the results surprised me [44d]
• "The need to 'record data I want to keep onto a disc I have on hand' continues to genuinely exist," : Blu-ray isn't dead after all — Verbatim and I-O Data pledge support even as rivals leave [44d]
• The $5 Drone Killer: The Navy’s new 20kW LOCUST laser just proved its "unlimited magazine depth" on the USS George H.W. Bush — it neutralized multiple UAVs for a fraction of the cost of a missile, protecting the fleet from cheap enemy drone swarms [44d]
• "SIM-Farm-as-a-Service": How a Belarus-based network hijacked UK and US telcos to enable global fraud [44d]
• "Inference requires infrastructure that is closer to users and more energy-efficient": Antimatter debuts global AI network built to bypass grid bottleneck with a 400,000 GPU roll out by 2030 across 1000 data centers [44d]
• China says world's largest recycling scheme saw 41 million tech items traded in 2026 for discounts [44d]
• This fun IKEA lamp is a brilliant talking point in my home, and my friends can't believe how cheap it was [44d]