The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists [1h]
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- Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout [1h]
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- Show HN: Is It Greg? [2h]
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- The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence [2h]
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- Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media [2h]
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- The case against JPEG XL [3h]
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- AI is not a normal technology [3h]
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- AI Robots – When will they be in our homes [3h]
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- Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi [3h]
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- Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List [3h]
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- Apple's Dimensional Drawings [4h]
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- "Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts [4h]
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- The Coming War on General Computation (2011) [4h]
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- Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019) [5h]
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- It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card [5h]
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- The Contagion of Fear [5h]
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- Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs [6h]
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- Why is privacy so hard? [6h]
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- Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance? [6h]
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- Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher [7h]
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- AI Is Destroying the World [7h]
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- Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003) [7h]
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- Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster [7h]
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- Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) [8h]
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- A computational constitution to stop LLM agents from bricking servers [8h]
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- There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier [8h]
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- US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’ [8h]
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- AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026) [9h]
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- Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing [9h]
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- I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc [10h]
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- Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco [10h]
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- Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562 [10h]
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- Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? [10h]
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- Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) [10h]
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- Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against them [10h]
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- Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? [10h]
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- Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents [11h]
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- David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models [11h]
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- Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code [11h]
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- Making Startups Powerful [12h]
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- Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too [12h]
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- Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) [12h]
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- Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy? [12h]
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- Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything. [13h]
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- Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices [13h]
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- Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 [13h]
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- CUDA for AMD on Windows [13h]
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- Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic [13h]
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- Making Startups Powerful [14h]
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- Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side [14h]
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- Your car is selling your data [14h]
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- Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation [14h]
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- Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists [14h]
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- AI models don't kill people – people kill people [14h]
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- RevenueOS – open-source revenue automation that waits for your approval [14h]
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- US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs [14h]
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- Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO 2 days after getting booted [15h]
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- Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? [15h]
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- 'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet [16h]
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- Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls [16h]
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- Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating? [16h]
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- U.S. in Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse in CIA Model [16h]
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- Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100 [17h]
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- Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests [18h]
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- Norton Neo Browser [19h]
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- Homebrew 7.0.0 [19h]
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- Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley [20h]
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- JetKVM Mini [20h]
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- American Medical Association Backs Classification of Nearsightedness as Disease [20h]
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- Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone [21h]
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- When Anyone Can Build Software, Who Decides What Not to Build? [22h]
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- Document: Samsung and SK Hynix rejected KEPCO's proposal to prepay ~$18.7B of chip cluster power bills, citing uncertainty over long-term chip demand (Reuters) [51m]
- Sources: SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to support its OpenAI investment, securing $11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its $10B target (Janice Huang/Bloomberg) [1h]
- Current and former officials: the US NSA plans major restructuring to form five new units for AI, China, cybersecurity, warfighting, and global intelligence (Washington Post) [2h]
- Source: Anthropic signed a $13.7B, six-year deal to lease compute from Rum Group's upcoming Georgia data center; Rum operates Rumble and hosts Truth Social (The Information) [2h]
- Report: former EPA officials identify 30 federal actions since January 2025 that they say exacerbate health risks stemming from data center pollution (Justine Calma/The Verge) [3h]
- Sources: Anthropic told investors it will be profitable for a second straight quarter, with 80%+ gross margins before partner revenue sharing and training costs (Financial Times) [3h]
- Satya Nadella says "we welcome" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right", and announces a "Code of Conduct" for Microsoft's MAI models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella) [5h]
- Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information) [6h]
- Xi Jinping calls for a "consensus-based global AI governance framework" and says China will pioneer the establishment of a BRICS AI open-source community (Joanna Ossinger/CNBC) [8h]
- Dario Amodei says the "toughest dilemma" about his proposal to "pace the frontier" is what happens if China does not do the same (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [8h]
- President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying "you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up" (Myles McCormick/Financial Times) [11h]
- Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [11h]
- Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products (Donica Phifer/Axios) [12h]
- iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [13h]
- Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to "pace the frontier" and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks) [15h]
- Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times) [17h]
- Sources: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash (The Washington Sun) [22h]
- Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M (John Egan/Dallas Innovates) [22h]
- Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) [23h]
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- The NBN speed upgrades launched one year ago — here's how they’ve changed the face of Australian broadband [1h]
- Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons will have a smaller set of spells with multiple uses rather than a large variety to make 'everything accessible on a controller,' Invoke says [2h]
- Lanterns episode 5 ending explained: who dies, why does John Stewart [spoiler], and more big questions answered about the DC comic book show's latest entry [2h]
- Sony denies claims it is stopping disc production — but admits its last plant will drop production by 10% [2h]
- NATO prevented Russia from cutting a critical undersea cable using a tool that leaves no 'traceable fingerprints' on fibre-optic wires — 1,400km long lines are part of NASA's Near Space Network [3h]
- StarCraft general manager says the shift to open-world shooter came about because 'Every time we drew a picture or every time we talked about' the game 'it was boots on the ground every time' [4h]
- 'That is where the machine starts winning on cost': Expert pits AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 rig against ChatGPT and gives surprising verdict [4h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, September 14 (game #1694) [5h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, September 14 (game #1191) [5h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, September 14 (game #925) [5h]
- Meta enlists tiny Korean startup to build 'one-chip-like datacenter' — CXL architecture introduced by Facebook's parent company and Panmnesia can handle almost 1000 AI GPUs per domain [5h]
- The Pentagon reportedly asked OpenAI to provide an AI that doesn't like saying no to requests [6h]
- The iPhone 18 Pro's game-changing feature isn't the variable aperture camera, special version of Siri AI or 'desktop-class' processor — it's that huge leap in battery life [6h]
- Vari Electric Standing Desk with TechTrack review: A desk designed for pros who like to stay organized, productive, and stylish [7h]
- What is the release date for Ted Lasso season 4 episode 7 on Apple TV? [7h]
- Good for Mother Nature? RAM-pocalyse encourages millions to recycle their old devices as expert says 'economics of component recovery are changing' [7h]
- I was ready to call these the best open earbuds ever, and they're incredibly cheap — but one recurring issue ruined it all [8h]
- What is the release date for Neagley on Prime Video? [10h]
- There's a sneaky way to watch US Open Men's Final for free — stream Zverev vs Shelton [10h]
- Anduril teams up with the Polish government to start work on an all-new cruise missile to combat Russian threats [11h]
- I test 4K Blu-ray for a living and these are the 5 discs I'm most looking forward to in September 2026, including 'one of the most curious 4K releases I've seen' [11h]
- The new AirPods 5 are available to preorder at Walmart — and you can save on older models starting at just $19 [11h]
- Microsoft is working with the American Federation of Teachers to work out how best to use AI in the classroom [11h]
- “In terms of price-to-performance, it’s hard to beat”: This Xbox gamepad might be better value than Microsoft’s version — but there’s one feature I desperately wish it had [12h]
- RayNeo's iO camera-free smart glasses boast an AI-agnostic version of the Siri Recap feature coming to Apple Watch — and I’m not sure if I love or hate it [12h]
- Anthropic 'formalizes' Fermat's Last Theorem like never before using Claude — but it still took 11 days to write out [12h]
- How to watch Zverev vs Shelton: US Open 2026 Men's Final Live Streams for FREE, TV Channels [13h]
- Even Realities G2 smart glasses show the limits of speaker- and camera-free frames [13h]
- Prusa CORE One+ INDX 8-Tool 3D printer review: This beast makes rival multicolor 3D printers feel slow [14h]
- What is the release date for Reacher season 4 episode 8 on Prime Video? [15h]
- How to watch Man Utd vs Man City: Live streams, TV channels for Premier League 2026/27 [15h]
- EU regulations have revealed how big this year's iPhone 18 Pro battery upgrade was — and US buyers get one spec tweak on the Pro Max model [15h]
- The Godox C100 is the weirdest camera and the weirdest light meter I've ever used — it's an intriguing concept, but it misses the mark on both counts [16h]
- ‘I did not foresee at all the social-media application, nor its impact on society': Inventor of the CMOS-based image sensor on how a technology designed to take photos in space has changed the way we view the world [17h]
- How to watch Big Brother UK 2026 online for FREE – stream season 23 from anywhere [17h]
- Expert finds this £3 Temu Wi-Fi extender is full of security issues, and definitely not the bargain you'd hoped for [18h]
- ArenaNet says Guild Wars 3's new momentum system creates a 'seamless sense of movement you'd expect to see in an action game' by connecting all movement and combat abilities to create 'fluid movement' [19h]
- How to watch Rangers vs Celtic for FREE: Live streams and TV channels for Scottish League Cup 2026/27 quarter-final [20h]
- Google Health's mistakes are a grave warning for Apple’s new AI-powered Health app [21h]
- A Diablo 5 new class has already been revealed with the Plague Knight being 'a walking death' across the battlefield — while two returning classes have also been confirmed [22h]
- The tone of Diablo 5 is 'really doubling down on darkness' say the devs — 'I think that's really the tone, the atmosphere' [23h]
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- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Sept. 14 [58m]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 14, #721 [1h]
- Overwatch Season 5 Will Add a New Kind of Support, Try to Solve 2 Roster Headaches [7h]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 14, #1191 [8h]
- Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 14, #1913 [8h]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14, #925 [8h]
- iPhone Duo vs. Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra: Apple’s and Samsung’s Premium Foldables Compared [9h]
- Yes, the iPhone Duo Is a First-Generation Phone. That’s Why You Should Get One if You Can [10h]
- US Open 2026 Men’s Singles Final: How to Watch Ben Shelton vs. Alexander Zverev [11h]
- Apple Watch Series 12 vs. Apple Watch SE 3: Compare Apple’s New Watch and Its Lower-Cost Option [12h]
- Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro vs. 14 Pro: The Four-Year Difference Between Apple’s Pro Phones [12h]
- ‘Crystal Lake’ Release Date: When to Watch the ‘Friday the 13th’ Series on Peacock [12h]
- Xgimi Aura 2 UST Projector Review: Semi-Budget Sliding Ultra-Short Throw [13h]
- Premier League Soccer: Stream Man United vs. Man City Live From Anywhere [15h]
- The Latest Weird Thing to Play Doom Is the Mapped-Out Brain of a Fruit Fly [15h]
- Before You Get That Phone Deal, Double-Check Bill Credits and Installment Plan Details [16h]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 13, #720 [16h]
- I Turned the TCL Nxtpaper 11 Gen 2 Tablet Into a Great Budget Portable Monitor and an Even Better Value [18h]
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