The Brutalist Report

TechRadar

• This 8-bit computer plans to run flight sim and generates a 'pleasant homely aroma' by burning dust off 1950s vacuum tubes — oh, and it can explode at any time [35d]
• NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #930) [35d]
• NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #1196) [35d]
• Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, September 19 (game #1699) [35d]
• How to watch Asian Games 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels, schedule [35d]
• Quote of the day by ex-OpenAI chief scientist and SSI co-founder Ilya Sutskever: 'AI will keep getting better and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do' — a staggering prediction about a future superintelligence [35d]
• Tiny Dutch startup enlists Samsung as backer as it seeks to dethrone Nvidia AI GPU — but Euclyd won't get its inference chip out till 2028 [35d]
• TP-Link's budget-friendly Archer AX21 Wi-Fi 6 router drops to $60 in Amazon's Early Prime Day — but this deal ends soon [35d]
• US Army confirms it has 'space control weapons' active in orbit to ensure it 'can operate freely there' [35d]
• HP's cartridge-free Smart Tank 5003 all-in-one printer with 3 years' free ink drops to $170 at Amazon [35d]
• Creality's 16-color K2 Combo 3D printer drops to $584 at Amazon [35d]
• New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead [35d]
• 12 clever home office upgrades you didn't know you needed in Amazon's early Prime Day sale [35d]
• The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is possibly the thinnest laptop we've ever tested — and this deal drops the price by $550 [35d]
• Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode [35d]
• AMD GPUs and CPUs could be the next victims of the RAM crisis, as industry chatter insists more price hikes are coming [35d]
• China's Salt Typhoon spotted probing Latin American government with newly developed SparroWocky backdoor [35d]
• 2,000 UK flight cancellations caused by ‘previously unknown defect’ that happened in the ‘space of a millisecond’ — travel chaos took days to fix and left hundreds of thousands stranded [35d]
• FBI confirms two Texas-bound oil tankers hit by hackers who disabled coms and put the engines into overdrive — and Iran is possibly to blame [35d]
• I spoke to Apple’s new VP of Hardware Engineering about why he's ‘especially proud’ of the iPhone Duo’s hinge durability and the reliability of Ceramic Shield 2: ‘When I see someone put a screen protector on their iPhone, it makes my skin crawl’ [35d]
• Hi-fi and home theater legend Wharfedale announces four(!) new subwoofers, and if that seems like overkill, wait until you see how big the largest one is [35d]
• This is what it's like to be the first person on the new iPhone 18 Pro line at the Apple Store [35d]
• US inherits Venezuelan surveillance state built on banned Chinese tech and AI — and it shows no signs of switching [35d]
• Should you pick up Marvel's Wolverine or Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave? Our latest quiz tells you what to play this weekend [35d]
• What is the release date and launch time for Lanterns episode 6 on HBO Max? [35d]
• 'Whatever you try to fix breaks things even more': How to avoid the hidden dangers of AI code [35d]
• NFL Week 2 preview: 5 games you can’t miss this weekend [35d]
• The LG C6 is a 'gaming powerhouse' with brilliant picture quality — and the 77-inch model just hit its lowest price yet [35d]
• Spotify teases a GTA 6 collaboration — I hope Rockstar will finally let us use our own playlists, but people suspect it's something simpler [35d]
• I finally got Siri AI on my iPhone, so I gave it 5 jobs I normally use ChatGPT Voice for — I wasn’t expecting it to be this good [35d]
• Players will need to 'think on their feet' in Alien: Isolation 2's new exterior environments, while the 'perfect hunter' xenomorph will also learn and 'adapt' how to track you down in the outdoors [35d]
• Bill to make AI data centers pay for power grid upgrades reaches critical milestone [35d]
• The all-new Apple Watch Series 12 just launched — here's how to get it for as little as $199 [35d]
• This Wavlink USB-C dock can charge your Windows laptop or MacBook, connect six 10Gbps USB devices, and drive three monitors for just $120 [35d]
• WD_Black's high-speed 4TB SN7100 SSD gets a discount with Newegg's special promo code [35d]
• Add a second display to your laptop for £73 with this Asus ZenScreen 15.6-inch Full HD portable monitor deal at Amazon [35d]
• Why quantum scales on compute-per-watt, not qubit count [35d]
• TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #7, Friday, September 18 [35d]
• 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (September 18) [35d]
• CISA urges business to deploy decoys, lures, and honeypots to catch hackers in the act [35d]
• Mullvad has silently revamped its Android VPN app — here’s what you need to know [35d]
• Control Resonant shows that sometimes bigger really is better [35d]
• MobLand season 2 episode 1 recap: people are already dead, the Harrigan's enter a 'death spiral', and Harry's unhinged new rival is officially introduced [35d]
• Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions [35d]
• Diablo 4 game director confirms 'the end is not nigh' despite Diablo 5's announcement and says players shouldn't worry, as 'we're going to be making content for a long time' — 'The train is not stopping' [35d]
• The Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have officially launched — I'm rounding up the best deals for both the US and UK [35d]
• AI watermarking could make LLM guardrail adherence unpredictable — and that could be a big problem for the EU AI Act [35d]
• Steam Machine's official repair guides reveal the true trickiness of some upgrades — the RAM especially is causing some raised eyebrows [35d]
• Our favorite budget audiophile brand launches new flagship planar magnetic headphones that aren't so budget — but a next-gen 86% thinner diaphragm with 'full-face diamond coating' could make them worth the price for head-fi fans [35d]
• Diablo 4 game director says it's 'liberating' to be done with expansions as Blizzard can continue the narrative through seasons instead — 'We completed the story, but the butterfly effect can take us anywhere' [35d]
• Keep seeing strange meetings and events in your calendar? It might be because calendar-based phishing has jumped 33,000% since May — and they work even if the email is sent to spam [35d]
• Winning video from Nikon microscope competition shows airway cells dancing in child with rare genetic disorder — Chinese student built imaging system to capture 'beautiful' cilia at 100x magnification [35d]
• Prime Big Deal Days starts soon, but these 16 tech deals at Amazon UK are already worth buying [35d]
• Garmin investigates ‘disappearing workouts’ issue that’s hitting Cirqa owners — and confirms a workaround to stop it happening to you [35d]
• Starlink Mobile could soon be available worldwide — FCC grants SpaceX satellite internet service the right to operate internationally [35d]
• How to build enterprise resilience in the face of growing AI risk [35d]
• White hat hackers just breached OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude in less than 72 hours — and it is a case study in just how fast AI is advancing [35d]
• ArenaNet studio head says Guild Wars 3 will have 'significantly less' UI elements on the HUD for an MMO — 'We very intentionally designed this because it's also on console and it's a lean-back experience' [35d]
• 'Information-collecting monstrosities' — Are Chinese connected cars really worse for your privacy? [35d]
• Live without compromise: A broadcast studio as checked luggage [35d]
• Microsoft exec said AI scraping was ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ lawsuit filings reveal [35d]
• Lanterns midseason trailer teases more Sinestro, Guy Gardner, and Hal Jordan's possible killer — and I have a new theory about how the former Green Lantern will be brought back to life [35d]
• VPN Deal of the Week: A long term partner for your torrenting needs, with no nasty auto-renew surprises [35d]
• This new Ugreen case adds an E Ink screen to the back of your iPhone 18 Pro — but it’s no match for my Xteink X4 Pro [35d]
• How to move from AI discovery to AI enforcement [35d]
• Mobile Industry Awards 2026 - all our winners revealed! [35d]
• Diablo 5 senior director says some complex systems were 'deferred' to the endgame, so it could 'deliver the depth and mastery elements' without 'overwhelming our players who are enjoying spending a lot of time in the campaign and exploring the world' [35d]
• How to watch Sydney vs Fremantle for FREE: Live streams & TV channels for AFL 2026 Preliminary Final [35d]
• iPhone VPN users? CyberGhost has finally released a new update [35d]
• Neagley season 2 has yet to be confirmed by Prime Video — but cast and creator already tease 'deeper emotion' and 'bigger action scenes' in new storylines [36d]
• Lucky eBayer snags 128-core Intel server for $700 — HP server has 1TB RAM and 16 Xeon CPUs worth more than $4,000 [36d]
• A camera in a toothbrush? Dyson tells us why it combined 'WiFi, AI, intelligent sensing and fluid dynamics with a highly engineered brushing experience' to create the Dyson Camerajet [36d]
• 'Engineered for affordability': Lockheed Martin says Vectis stealth combat drone family will come before 2028 — promotion videos show two hidden missile bays [36d]
• US carmakers could soon be forced to offer AM radio for free in new vehicles — 100-year-old technology to make a comeback after being ditched by Tesla, Volvo, BMW, and more [36d]
• China’s UBTech opens world-first factory that builds a humanoid robot every ten minutes — 14,000 square meter plant will deliver army of 10,000 robots a year [36d]