The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Twitter claims ‘legacy’ blue checkmarks will start to disappear on April Fools’ Day [1142d]
• Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever [1142d]
• Is Jack Dorsey going to get blown up by Hindenburg Research? [1142d]
• Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, despite missing many promised features [1142d]
• Wind energy is recovering from a 2022 slump [1142d]
• OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more [1142d]
• Apple’s plan to spend $1 billion per year on movies means more theatrical releases [1142d]
• I gazed into the Genesis GV60’s ‘Crystal Sphere’ and found joy [1142d]
• Sonos plans Move (Gen 2) portable speaker for second half of 2023 [1142d]
• Finally, you can put an AMD processor in the Framework Laptop [1142d]
• Framework announces Laptop 16 — and promises ‘holy grail’ of upgradable graphics [1142d]
• This $39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC [1142d]
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has moral choices that feel true to the story [1142d]
• Dell’s new Latitude 9440 is one of the smallest 14-inch business laptops you can buy [1142d]
• Elden Ring gets ray tracing in new update [1142d]
• Atari is acquiring retro game specialists Nightdive Studios [1142d]
• Belkin’s backpedal exposes Matter’s inherent tension [1142d]
• Alleged $40 billion crypto fraudster Do Kwon said to be arrested in Montenegro [1142d]
• Anker’s MagSafe-friendly 622 Magnetic Battery (MagGo) drops to a new all-time low [1142d]
• Tim Sweeney explains how the metaverse might actually work [1142d]
• Cyberpunk 2077 is getting film-like path tracing with new Overdrive Mode in April [1142d]
• Apple’s Tetris movie has no idea what it wants to be [1142d]
• How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien [1142d]
• The Linus Tech Tips YouTube hack is the latest in a line of crypto scam breaches [1143d]
• How to watch this morning’s TikTok ban hearing [1143d]
• Rewind’s new feature brings ChatGPT to your personal information [1143d]
• Lego 2K Drive lets you build a custom racing car brick by brick [1143d]
• Tesla’s Wireless Charging Platform does what AirPower couldn’t [1143d]
• Lenovo’s high-end Legion Slim gaming laptops get new AI chips to ‘optimize cooling’ [1143d]
• Snap launches a new business to help retailers with AR shopping [1143d]
• Turtle Beach’s flagship gaming headset offers ‘unrivaled’ noise cancellation — for a price [1143d]
• Can AI generate a way to pay for itself? [1143d]
• The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions [1143d]
• Engwe M20 e-bike review: a budget Super73 [1143d]
• Canva’s got a massive update that should have Adobe worried [1143d]
• Samsung’s photo “remaster” knows what this baby pic is missing: teeth [1143d]