The Brutalist Report - tech
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- U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says [9d]
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- Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987 [9d]
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- A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf] [9d]
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- The Road to a Billion-Token Context [9d]
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- Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March [9d]
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- Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks [9d]
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- Ti-84 Evo [9d]
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- Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill [9d]
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- Whimsical Animations Course Open House [9d]
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- Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack" [9d]
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- Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming [9d]
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- A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia [9d]
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- City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo [9d]
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- First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line [9d]
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- Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers [9d]
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- It's Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We? [9d]
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- Show HN: AI CAD Harness [9d]
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- Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres [9d]
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- Artemis II Fault Tolerance [9d]
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- The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced [9d]
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- Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91 [9d]
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- AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on [9d]
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- Understand Anything [9d]
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- Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant [9d]
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- AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks [9d]
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- The Gay Jailbreak Technique [9d]
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- DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price [9d]
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- Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI [9d]
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- Apocalypse Early Warning System [9d]
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- Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests [9d]
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- Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months [9d]
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- Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention [9d]
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- A Treasure Trove of Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life [9d]
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- An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open [9d]
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- Confessions of a Millennial in Tech [9d]
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- How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London? [9d]
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- Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down [9d]
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- I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA [9d]
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- whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search [9d]
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- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) [9d]
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- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) [9d]
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- GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier. [9d]
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- Telegraph and Politico owner says journalists must support Israel or resign [9d]
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- Sally McKee, who coined the term "the Memory Wall", has died [9d]
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- Automatic Brightness in Plasma [9d]
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- Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense [9d]
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- K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s [9d]
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- US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City [9d]
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- Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case [9d]
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- Waymo says it is continuing to "refine" its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks (Aarian Marshall/Wired) [9d]
- xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [9d]
- Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) [9d]
- Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) [9d]
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars (Lisa Richwine/Reuters) [9d]
- Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as $4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about $40B (Bloomberg) [9d]
- How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired) [9d]
- "Podslop" is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years (Ben Shimkus/Business Insider) [9d]
- Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) [9d]
- The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored (Greg Otto/CyberScoop) [9d]
- The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg) [9d]
- The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs) [9d]
- Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [9d]
- A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 (Jonathan Greig/The Record) [9d]
- Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud (Jessica Lyons/The Register) [9d]
- Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire (Ben Weiss/Fortune) [9d]
- Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that's raised $5.7B via junk bonds (Wall Street Journal) [9d]
- The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters) [9d]
- Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, used for AI and agentic tools, "may take several months to reach supply demand balance" (Juli Clover/MacRumors) [9d]
- Amazon launches "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) [9d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #1559) [9d]
- 3 swoon-worthy romantic movies to watch on HBO Max in May 2026 [9d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #1056) [9d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #790) [9d]
- 'Beyond the financial risk, there are real public safety implications': Hackers crawled Canadian streets with SMS blasters, attacking every target in sight — causing 13 million network disruptions and hacking thousands of devices [9d]
- Apple’s Mac mini now has a higher starting price, as it discontinues the entry-level model and slides down to the mid-range [9d]
- I don't know if Vision Pro is alive or dead, but it is still the most sophisticated, powerful, and coolest hardware Apple ever built — and we can surely thank it for the glasses that will follow [9d]
- 'Tens of millions of Graviton cores': AWS scores huge coup as Meta 'buys' hundreds of thousands of CPUs and infrastructure, confirming Jeff Bezos' hyperscaler as the essential backbone of the agentic AI Era in a major blow to AMD and Intel ambitions [9d]
- Definitely not your usual EV: China begins sea trial for world's largest electric ship — Ning Yuan Dian Kun is longer than a football field, weighs 10,000 tons, and uses 10 container batteries with a total 19MWh capacity [9d]
- 'An accomplished smart speaker that ticks a lot of the right boxes' — the Echo Show 11 falls to a record-low price at Amazon [9d]
- Redditor builds a PC inside an old CRT monitor — it looks like an ancient iMac, but runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 100fps in 1440p [9d]
- 'Exactly one photon': European scientists have built the first block of a truly unhackable global quantum internet that can run on existing fiber networks — breaking what was once thought to be an impossible barrier to transmit identical light particles [9d]
- Rocket League has a new Easy Anti-Cheat addition, and it still works on the Steam Deck — it's about time for other game Devs to follow suit [9d]
- 3 thrilling new Netflix shows you shouldn't miss in May 2026 [9d]
- Russia orders Apple and Google to remove Important Stories, an investigative media app that works without a VPN — leaving Russians without a key source for accessing uncensored news [9d]
- Asus’s Intel Core i7-powered ROG Strix G16 is a high-performance laptop for creators and gamers — and it’s currently $100 off [9d]
- I saw Samsung's new mid-range OLED TV and its controversial Glare Free screen — and based on my first look, it could be a real challenger to the LG C6 [9d]
- 'Your duty is not yet done' — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is so popular that it's getting another year of content [9d]
- This is not a drill: Terry Crews has come to Call of Duty [9d]
- 'The cost of cloud services and the cost of AI will also go down in the future, so we’ll try very hard to keep it for free': Coros' CEO on how the smartwatch maker is swerving subscriptions for now — avoiding another Garmin Connect+ disaster [9d]
- QR code phishing surges 146% as Microsoft detects and analyzes 8.3 billion phishing threats in Q1 2026 – attackers are changing tactics to bypass security [9d]
- Finally, Windows 11 desktop PC users can enjoy Xbox Mode — and Microsoft has a new gift for Ally X users [9d]
- Free-to-play mobile game The Division Resurgence is launching on PC in August as Ubisoft shares new roadmap details, but you can play it right now [9d]
- Someone found a Chinese retailer selling super-cheap CRT TVs, but don't get too excited, retro gaming fans — every new piece of information about them seems to reveal more mysteries [9d]
- FBI says hackers are making millions from stolen cargo - losses 'surged' to nearly $725 million in 2025 [9d]
- Apple is overhauling its Photos app with AI — because it has to [9d]
- Error in Medicare database exposes US healthcare providers Social Security numbers – Trump administration directory designed to modernize Medicare encounters another setback [9d]
- From 'encryption backdoor' to 'lawful access' — is a compromise between privacy, security, and law enforcement needs actually possible? [9d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (May 1) [9d]
- Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’ [9d]
- 'Straight out of a fairyland' — winner of the 11th DJI and SkyPixel photo and video contest stunned judges with 'unique and otherworldly landscape' to bag the grand prize in the $200,000 pot, and it was captured with a Mavic 3 Pro [9d]
- 21 tech deals from the Amazon bank holiday sale that I'd buy — laptops, smartwatches, games, and essentials from under £10 [9d]
- Zuckerberg blames Meta layoffs on AI costs, says “compute and infrastructure” and “people oriented things” are biggest financial drain right now [9d]
- 4 of the best Star Wars movies just dropped on a big Disney+ rival ahead of Star Wars Day 2026 — and one is rated higher than Return of the Jedi [9d]
- I asked ChatGPT to reimagine The Devil Wears Prada 2 ending based on the shocking Runway magazine AI twist in the sequel — and the results aren't as dreadful as you'd think [9d]
- Our LG C6 OLED TV tests are underway — here’s your chance to ask our experts anything [9d]
- 007 First Light art director says the limited edition Dualsense controller was inspired by a 'light' theme, not the inside of a gun barrel — 'What we were trying to do with that was reference more how the UI of the game feels' [9d]
- 'Verified By Spotify' is the music streamer's new way to help you avoid AI artists, but it doesn't go as far as I'd like — especially with Deezer, Qobuz and Apple Music making major anti-AI steps [9d]
- Don't be alarmed — this major Android Auto annoyance could be finally get fixed soon by Google after almost a decade [9d]
- 'A galaxy of new Star Wars games' and more are coming to Fortnite to celebrate Star Wars Day [9d]
- 'An hour of scan time is all it took': "Copy Fail" flaw impacts all Linux kernels released since 2017, so patch now or face the consequences [9d]
- 'A technical whack-a-mole:' Utah to become the first US state to target VPN users with controversial age verification law — and digital rights experts are furious [9d]
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