The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• GPD’s monster Strix Halo handheld requires a battery ‘backpack’ or a 180W charger [8d]
• DJI couldn’t confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban [8d]
• Google gets its swag back [8d]
• Comcast’s fix for streaming service overload is in your cable box [8d]
• Breaking Bad creator’s new sci-fi show hits Apple in November [8d]
• Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey [8d]
• Anker is no longer selling 3D printers [8d]
• You can now easily buy a Switch 2 without jumping through hoops [8d]
• Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is a Silver Age man cave inspired by nature’s beauty [8d]
• Want to pay down the national debt? The US government will take Venmo [8d]
• Pebble is officially Pebble again [8d]
• Netflix’s push into tie-in games now includes two weird Happy Gilmore titles [8d]
• Lyft’s self-driving shuttle buses are coming soon [8d]
• Bluetti’s small, camp-friendly generator is over 30 percent off [8d]
• How to make your iPhone homescreen icons clear using iOS 26 [8d]
• Elden Ring Nightreign is adding two-player co-op [8d]
• Taste testing battery-flavored tortilla chips [8d]
• Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry [8d]
• Asus’ slim ROG G14 gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti is $350 off [8d]
• Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’ [8d]
• The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass [8d]
• I tried Gemini on the Pixel Watch. Here’s what it’s like [9d]
• Diving into Apple’s Liquid Glass [9d]
• I ‘fooled’ Samsung’s new antioxidant feature with a Cheez-It [9d]
• Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is now blocked by Brave and AdGuard [9d]
• Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI [9d]
• Syncing desktops and better AI wallpapers are coming to ChromeOS [9d]