The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• YouTube says it isn’t testing hiding the dislike button [16d]
• Tesla says customers can add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year — will it happen? [16d]
• Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains [16d]
• Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push [16d]
• New York’s first microdrama film festival searches for its audience [16d]
• Meta says it would’ve made over $22 billion if it didn’t have to pay a child safety settlement [16d]
• PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today [16d]
• Flying Roadsters can’t lift Tesla’s flat Q3 revenues [16d]
• Bose acquires Skullcandy to help it reach a wider audience [16d]
• Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash [16d]
• Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent [16d]
• Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you [16d]
• Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties over the Cambridge Analytica scandal [16d]
• Cyberpunk 2077’s update for Edgerunners 2 brings mods to PS5, Switch 2, and Xbox [16d]
• Xbox mandates a four-day return to office [16d]
• Star Wars Zero Company is a must-play strategy game at 20 percent off [16d]
• GM promises smarter cars, faster updates, and autonomous dry-cleaning runs [16d]
• Will TP-Link really make routers in the US? Here’s what it told us [16d]
• Xbox Cloud Gaming’s pay-as-you-go option starts at $3.99 for 10 hours [16d]
• Samsung’s latest 55-inch Frame TV is down to its lowest price yet [16d]
• EA is shutting down BioWare [16d]
• They want your blood [16d]
• Supernatural’s comeback starts today, with more music and VR workouts coming soon [16d]
• Apple Music has a new logo [16d]
• Conversational Gemini navigation comes to Apple CarPlay [16d]
• Samsung’s 5K monitor has good gaming chops and a great price [16d]
• Apple says it only has ‘limited’ iPhone Duo units for in-store sales [16d]
• Blink brings 4K to its low-cost security camera lineup [16d]
• OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system [16d]
• Now Serato DJ works on your iPhone [16d]
• Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games [16d]
• I reviewed the iPhone Duo, ask me anything [16d]
• Spotify is busting free of CarPlay with the launch of its first native car app [16d]
• I can’t get enough of the iPhone Duo’s matte inner display [16d]
• The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive, good time [16d]