The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Nintendo wants you to join its next mysterious Switch Online playtest [21d]
• Subaru’s new Uncharted EV looks like an undercover Toyota C-HR [21d]
• The crypto industry got what it paid for [21d]
• Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too [21d]
• These overpriced airport battery chargers have been recalled for a fire risk [21d]
• You can once again buy the AirPods 4 for less than $90 [21d]
• Anker’s new charging station battles desktop clutter with two retractable USB-C cables [21d]
• Peacock is raising its price by $3 [21d]
• Razer’s new Pokémon collab is not very effective [21d]
• Donkey Kong Bananza is already cheaper at Costco [21d]
• Right-wing orgs put pro-Palestinian students on an ICE ‘hit list’ [21d]
• Bring on the trifolds [21d]
• What Big Tech got out of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill [21d]
• News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline [21d]
• OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you [21d]
• Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors [21d]
• The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot [21d]
• Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed series is finally coming together [21d]
• AMD’s new 96-core Threadripper CPU will set you back $11,699 [21d]
• Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors [21d]
• Wacom’s new MovinkPad drawing tablet doesn’t need a PC [21d]
• Lenovo Legion Go S review part two: you were the chosen one! [21d]
• Waymo responds to Tesla’s dick joke with a bigger Austin robotaxi map [21d]
• Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT [21d]
• Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app [21d]
• A gritty Pac-Man reboot makes for surprisingly solid Metroid-style action [21d]
• Sony is still stubborn about the size of its cameras [21d]
• Eddington gets the pandemic right but still isn’t a great movie [21d]
• Adobe’s new AI tool turns silly noises into realistic audio effects [21d]
• Dyson’s $500 headphones come in even more colors [21d]
• Uber to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal [21d]
• Slack says its AI can make sense of your company’s jargon [21d]
• Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats [21d]
• TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters [21d]