The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Google Messages brings back customizable contacts [246d]
• ‘Goodbye to my Chinese spy’ might be the last great TikTok trend [246d]
• Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads [246d]
• AGDQ 2025 earns $2.5 million for charity with its best event yet [246d]
• Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban [246d]
• Nintendo’s Alarmo will be available for everyone starting in March [246d]
• eBay’s new acquisition could make it easy to buy a car from anywhere [246d]
• Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’ [246d]
• Samsung is adding two new Galaxy Ring sizes [246d]
• Mercedes-Benz’s Virtual Assistant uses Google’s conversational AI agent [246d]
• 8BitDo’s drift-free mobile controller is on sale for the first time [246d]
• Microsoft creates new AI engineering group led by former Meta executive [246d]
• A major data broker hack may have leaked precise location info for millions [246d]
• Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI [246d]
• Adobe’s new AI tool can edit 10,000 images in one click [246d]
• Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization [247d]
• Nvidia flatters Trump in scathing response to Biden’s new AI chip restrictions [247d]
• Sonos’ interim CEO hits all the right notes in first letter to employees [247d]
• The Sonos app fiasco: how a great audio brand nearly ruined its reputation [247d]
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch [247d]
• Pete Buttigieg has a few things to say on his way out [247d]