The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Google will soon require disclaimers for AI-generated political ads [1035d]
• YouTube is going to remove some ad controls for creators [1035d]
• A Rube Goldberg chain of failures led to breach of Microsoft-hosted government emails [1035d]
• WhatsApp now supports HD photos and video [1035d]
• The AI Drake ‘Ghostwriter’ is back with a new song and is chasing a Grammy [1035d]
• Universal Music Group lands new royalty model that boosts popular artists [1035d]
• FAA clears UPS delivery drones for longer-range flights [1035d]
• Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI [1035d]
• Clubhouse reinvents itself as an audio messaging app [1035d]
• X’s Community Notes feature will now include videos [1035d]
• Slack’s AI tool that can recap channels and threads starts testing this winter [1035d]
• This one setting could be making your Instagram posts look worse — maybe [1035d]
• ‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing [1035d]
• How to get started with Cinebench 2024 [1035d]
• AMD’s RX 7800 XT is the antidote to GPU inflation [1035d]
• Max will reportedly start offering free sports later this year [1035d]
• China bans iPhone use for government work [1035d]
• Forget AI — I just want the Pixel 8 to get four OS upgrades [1035d]
• Amazon has ended its periodicals program, and independent publishers are panicking [1035d]
• Pixar’s Elemental will hit Disney Plus streaming on September 13th [1035d]
• New YouTube face just dropped [1035d]
• Bob Iger and Bob Chapek’s CEO battle made Disney the pettiest place on Earth [1035d]
• Here’s where you can preorder Sonos’ new Move 2 speaker [1035d]
• The Boy and the Heron’s first trailer is a glimpse at Miyazaki’s next dark fantasy [1035d]
• YouTube is experimenting with longer but less frequent ad breaks on TV [1035d]
• Amazon just added support for bridges, but Matter is still in a bind [1035d]
• US military planning to fund fleets of ‘small, smart, cheap’ drones [1035d]
• The first episode of Pokémon: Paldean Winds is a crash course in treasure hunting [1035d]
• The Spectrum / Disney blackout led a US Open player to pirate the US Open [1035d]
• Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 are $200 off [1035d]
• Dictionary.com adds a bunch of AI-related words [1035d]
• Google rolls out file locking for Workspace customers [1035d]
• YouTube’s latest experiment is playing games [1035d]
• Polestar is working on its own smartphone to seamlessly sync with its luxury EVs [1035d]
• ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen [1035d]
• AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT review: a nudge into the 1440p era [1035d]
• You can get three months of Disney Plus for about $6 right now [1035d]
• GoPro’s new Hero 12 Black will let you film continuously for longer [1035d]
• Sonos announces Move 2 speaker with stereo sound and 24-hour battery life [1035d]
• Roku turns to layoffs (again) and removes streaming content to cut costs [1035d]