The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• The TikTok US sale is finally happening [4d]
• Threads wants to be the app you can’t wait to open in the morning [4d]
• Oh snap, I have a new favorite phone grip [4d]
• Steam’s annual winter sale is here — these are the best games to get [4d]
• OpenAI and Anthropic will start predicting when users are underage [4d]
• Instagram wants to limit hashtag spam [4d]
• LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it [4d]
• Google’s Gemini app can check videos to see if they were made with Google AI [4d]
• 30 great gift ideas that should arrive in time for Christmas [5d]
• Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters [5d]
• Netflix snags Elle Duncan from ESPN to host live events [5d]
• Kia and Hyundai will spend millions fixing old cars to stop ‘Kia Boyz’ thefts [5d]
• iRobot’s bankruptcy isn’t the end — it’s a reboot, says its CEO [5d]
• How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web [5d]
• Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises [5d]
• Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026 [5d]
• ‘All chaos and panic’: Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions [5d]
• The latest iPad Air is $400 for the first time and arrives by Christmas [5d]
• 2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war [5d]
• Trump Media is merging with a nuclear fusion company [5d]
• AI companies are sick of their favorite buzzword [5d]
• Apple opens iOS to third-party app stores in Japan [5d]
• Kuxiu’s S3 MagSafe power bank is bigger and better and probably won’t explode [5d]
• Cowboy saddles up with a new owner [5d]
• The ChatGPT app store is here [5d]
• Sony’s legal battle against Tencent’s Horizon ‘clone’ is already over [5d]
• LG and Dolby partner to release the first FlexConnect soundbar [5d]