The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Google will soon require disclaimers for AI-generated political ads [967d]
• YouTube is going to remove some ad controls for creators [967d]
• A Rube Goldberg chain of failures led to breach of Microsoft-hosted government emails [967d]
• WhatsApp now supports HD photos and video [967d]
• The AI Drake ‘Ghostwriter’ is back with a new song and is chasing a Grammy [967d]
• Universal Music Group lands new royalty model that boosts popular artists [967d]
• FAA clears UPS delivery drones for longer-range flights [967d]
• Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI [967d]
• Clubhouse reinvents itself as an audio messaging app [967d]
• X’s Community Notes feature will now include videos [967d]
• Slack’s AI tool that can recap channels and threads starts testing this winter [967d]
• This one setting could be making your Instagram posts look worse — maybe [967d]
• ‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing [967d]
• How to get started with Cinebench 2024 [967d]
• AMD’s RX 7800 XT is the antidote to GPU inflation [967d]
• Max will reportedly start offering free sports later this year [967d]
• China bans iPhone use for government work [967d]
• Forget AI — I just want the Pixel 8 to get four OS upgrades [967d]
• Amazon has ended its periodicals program, and independent publishers are panicking [967d]
• Pixar’s Elemental will hit Disney Plus streaming on September 13th [967d]
• New YouTube face just dropped [967d]
• Bob Iger and Bob Chapek’s CEO battle made Disney the pettiest place on Earth [967d]
• Here’s where you can preorder Sonos’ new Move 2 speaker [967d]
• The Boy and the Heron’s first trailer is a glimpse at Miyazaki’s next dark fantasy [967d]
• YouTube is experimenting with longer but less frequent ad breaks on TV [967d]
• Amazon just added support for bridges, but Matter is still in a bind [967d]
• US military planning to fund fleets of ‘small, smart, cheap’ drones [967d]
• The first episode of Pokémon: Paldean Winds is a crash course in treasure hunting [967d]
• The Spectrum / Disney blackout led a US Open player to pirate the US Open [967d]
• Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 are $200 off [967d]
• Dictionary.com adds a bunch of AI-related words [967d]
• Google rolls out file locking for Workspace customers [967d]
• YouTube’s latest experiment is playing games [967d]
• Polestar is working on its own smartphone to seamlessly sync with its luxury EVs [967d]
• ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen [967d]
• AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT review: a nudge into the 1440p era [967d]
• You can get three months of Disney Plus for about $6 right now [967d]
• GoPro’s new Hero 12 Black will let you film continuously for longer [967d]
• Sonos announces Move 2 speaker with stereo sound and 24-hour battery life [967d]
• Roku turns to layoffs (again) and removes streaming content to cut costs [967d]
• iMessage and Bing avoid strict DMA rules, for now [967d]
• MSI fixes Windows 11 BSOD ‘unsupported processor’ errors with new BIOS updates [967d]
• Microsoft to detail OneDrive AI plans in ‘future of file management’ event [967d]
• Waymo is using insurance data about self-driving cars to bolster its safety case [967d]
• GoPro is back at making 360-degree cameras [967d]
• Google Search, Whatsapp, and TikTok on list of 22 services targeted by EU’s tough new DMA [967d]
• The new UE Epicboom is a beefy $350 Bluetooth speaker [967d]
• Google leaks Pixel 8 Pro again with a 360-degree preview [968d]
• Apple signs new agreement with Arm that goes past 2040 [968d]
• Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public memo on Google at 25 [968d]