The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• The Sonos Ace are a hefty 25 percent for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale [21d]
• The portable Fanttik X9 Pro tire inflator is down to its best price in months [21d]
• Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI [21d]
• Spotify is letting artists manually approve releases to combat AI fakes [21d]
• Razer’s new Blade 16 gaming laptop has an Intel Panther Lake chip and very fast RAM [21d]
• The surprise hit Nex Playground is the latest console to get a price hike [21d]
• Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well [21d]
• Woot is offering over 20 percent off Switch 2 controllers and games today [21d]
• Can you monitor a situation without monitors? The Polymarket sports bar tried [21d]
• The United States router ban, explained [21d]
• Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case [21d]
• Nintendo is going to charge less for digital Switch 2 games [21d]
• X tries to limit creator revenue for foreign influencers but Musk intervenes [21d]
• The TSA is broken — is privatization next? [21d]
• Cox Communications not liable for pirated music, Supreme Court rules [21d]
• Seiko resurrected a 44-year-old digital watch NASA astronauts wore to space [21d]
• Reddit accounts with ‘fishy’ bot-like behavior will soon need to prove they’re human [21d]
• Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs [21d]
• Live-service games are such a mess even Fortnite is struggling [21d]
• Senate Democrats are trying to ‘codify’ Anthropic’s red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance [21d]
• You can install these wireless security cameras over half a mile away [21d]
• Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang are part of Trump’s new ‘tech panel’ [21d]
• Ring finally brings 4K video to its battery-powered doorbell camera [21d]
• Keychron’s mechanical keyboards are up to 60 percent off [21d]
• Apple’s iOS 26.4 update adds age verification in the UK [21d]
• The best deals we’ve found from Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (so far) [21d]
• Reolink’s first solar-powered floodlight camera offers wire-free home security [21d]
• Dell made its new Pro laptops thinner and tweaked their naming scheme, again [21d]
• Sony and Honda ain’t feelin’ the Afeela anymore [21d]
• Samsung’s Galaxy A57 gets thinner, faster, and more expensive [21d]