The Brutalist Report - tech
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- John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement [3d]
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- We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps [3d]
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- Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50% [3d]
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- Rewriting Bun in Rust [3d]
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- Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3) [3d]
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- Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase [3d]
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- OpenAI no longer recommends SWE-Bench Pro [3d]
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- Fable is not a useful model [3d]
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- Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base [3d]
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- Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding fr [3d]
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- Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections [3d]
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- Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase [3d]
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- FAANG Simulator [3d]
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- Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts [3d]
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- Almost Always Unsigned [3d]
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- New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony [3d]
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- Cloudflare Drop [3d]
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- OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage [3d]
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- Grok 4.5 [3d]
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- Show HN: Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing [3d]
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- Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news? [3d]
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- Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents [3d]
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- PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU) [3d]
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- What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us? [3d]
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- GPT‑Live [3d]
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- EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules [3d]
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- SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence [3d]
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- Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease [3d]
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- TypeScript 7 [3d]
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- What Big Food Did to Ice Cream [3d]
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- Show HN: Kastor – Terraform-style specs for AI agents [3d]
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- Chatto is now Open Source [3d]
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- Answering "why do you want to relocate?" during interviews [3d]
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- Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window [3d]
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- Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video] [3d]
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- Tiny Tapeout Explorer: WASM FET-level circuit SIM&vis [3d]
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- Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model [3d]
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- Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019) [3d]
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- US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food [3d]
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- OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root [3d]
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- "Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?" [3d]
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- A bug which affected only left handed users [3d]
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- Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus [3d]
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- Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool [3d]
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- The Age of Reading Is Over [3d]
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- Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (Bloomberg) [3d]
- The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years (Boone Ashworth/Wired) [3d]
- OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI) [3d]
- Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [3d]
- Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios) [3d]
- SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg) [3d]
- OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) [3d]
- OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI) [3d]
- Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense) [3d]
- China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12 per share (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters) [3d]
- Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (Meir Orbach/CTech) [3d]
- Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, valuing the company at ~$9B, after raising $751M (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Sources: China plans to let some of the country's major AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to alleviate a domestic computing shortage (Qianer Liu/The Information) [3d]
- Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Nvidia lost $1T in market value over the past two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019 (Bloomberg) [3d]
- The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (Madison Mills/Axios) [3d]
- Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs (Corbin Bolies/Variety) [3d]
- Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET) [3d]
- SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, extensive ties to China, and health and safety issues (Tim Culpan/Culpium) [3d]
- Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) [3d]
- DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists (Anna Washenko/Engadget) [3d]
- Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (New York Times) [3d]
- Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its stock jumped 1,500% since January (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Japanese firm will continue producing Blu-ray Disc drives as another iconic company announces end of an era for physical discs — Buffalo will sell ODDs at higher prices until stocks run out [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, July 9 (game #1627) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, July 9 (game #858) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, July 9 (game #1124) [3d]
- Can't afford a high-powered graphics card? This DIY engineer made his own GPU out of 8,192 RISC-V chips [3d]
- PlayStation-owned Audeze has 'some potential game studio collaborations' in the works for its Maxwell 2 ReSkin earcup designs, as well as plans to bring it to other models [3d]
- Quote of the day by former Nintendo President Satoru Iawata: 'It will require many years and months for the majority of video game purchases to become digital' — correctly predicting dominance of digital games today back in 2009 [3d]
- These are the 115 best Prime Day deals in Australia on day 3 — up to 76% off headphones, vacuums, air fryers and more [3d]
- 'The thing that's amazing to me is this was 3D-printed': Pentagon's SciTech supremo describes future of warfare where projectiles are made up of coconut husks and coffee grounds [3d]
- Of course Samantha Morton will be the best part of The Odyssey — this 'devastating' drama you can stream now proved why long before Christopher Nolan's standing ovation [3d]
- The 'world's most powerful AI data center' hit with massive class-action lawsuit — Wisconsin residents allege noise and extreme light pollution at $7.3 billion Microsoft mega-facility [3d]
- ‘Lucky that we didn’t listen to the internet’ — Black Ops 7 isn’t perfect, but I’ll be sad to leave its incredible multiplayer behind for Modern Warfare 4 [3d]
- Multiple US Army websites defaced by hackers critical of Trump — error page displays message criticizing President [3d]
- Still think you can spot AI? Here’s how to catch more convincing AI images, deepfakes and scams [3d]
- This adorable $14K Fiat EV is coming to America — but it's barely faster than an e-bike [3d]
- Experts warn of the 'first documented case of agentic ransomware' — dangerous JADEPUFFER attack run entirely by an LLM [3d]
- Meta just fixed a privacy vulnerability with its Ray-Ban smart glasses, but could cameraless designs be the better future? [3d]
- This Ugreen NASync DH2300 deal delivers the 'perfect starter NAS' for home offices [3d]
- The Zyxel GS1915-24EP 24-port smart switch declutters your home network with 12 PoE+ ports and a 130W power budget — and it’s under $200 at Newegg [3d]
- I’m a computer expert, so trust me when I say this Dell 14 laptop deal is unmissable — save $530 on a Core 7 model with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD [3d]
- I reviewed Sony's new mid-range Dolby Atmos soundar, and while I love some features, overall its one step forward and two steps back [3d]
- ‘In Formula 1, the success goes to the teams that have the best teamwork and the best technology’: I found out how Atlassian is helping Williams F1 be more productive, efficient and collaborative than ever before [3d]
- ChatGPT’s ‘smartest voice model ever’ is rolling out to everyone today — and GPT-Live-1 gives you more natural conversations without interruptions [3d]
- Samsung's 'absolutely stellar' 2TB 990 Pro SSD earned a 5-star review from us — and it's just got a massive discount at Amazon [3d]
- Upgrade your agonizingly slow home office internet with TP-Link's Wi-Fi 7 Deco BE25 mesh router system — Amazon just dropped the price on the three-pack if you want to stop your video calls freezing [3d]
- Anker's Laptop Power Bank can charge all your devices at once (yes, even your laptop) — and it's just got a big summer price cut, so you can even keep working on the beach [3d]
- 5 things to expect at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked — from foldable phones to Samsung’s first smart glasses [3d]
- Sonos is finally improving its app — but its not moving fast enough, so people are building new alternatives to solve big gripes about home theater setups and more customizable sound [3d]
- How to use an AEO tool for your small business [3d]
- Microsoft's new tool will let you rebuild a dead PC without a physical copy of Windows [3d]
- AI shopping is changing discovery - but not consumer trust [3d]
- 'The question is no longer whether organisations should adopt AI. It's whether they can explain, govern and trust the AI they've already deployed': Many companies deploying AI often end up with much bigger security issues [3d]
- Buying a Shark ChillPill personal fan this week? There's only one colour left in stock, so you'll have to move like lightning to grab one [3d]
- Understanding cyber resilience in the age of internal threats, AI, and emerging data loss risks [3d]
- 12 top tech deals available this week at Amazon UK — Fitbit, Ninja, HP, Anker, and more from £5.99 [3d]
- A blow for Canon? Sony FX5 cinema camera tipped to launch soon with a time-saving video feature fans have demanded for years [3d]
- After selling out in record time, the all-metal AeroPress Steel is finally back in stock — and it’s the near-indestructible coffee upgrade your summer camping kit is missing [3d]
- What is the release date for Rick and Morty season 9 episode 8 on Adult Swim, HBO Max, and Hulu? [3d]
- Spotify didn’t tell anyone it updated its song-mixing feature, and users are obsessed with it — now I’m putting even more pride into how I curate my DJ-set playlists [3d]
- The Wolfbox MF60 electric air duster might be the best cheap office gadget you never knew you needed — if you hate buying cans of compressed air as much as me, it's essential [3d]
- For your desk only: I requisitioned 24 James Bond home office upgrades from screen-accurate replicas to fun desk gadgets to channel your inner 007 [3d]
- Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web as Anthropic reveals what people actually use it for [3d]
- Can You Video Chat Alongside 69,000 World Cup Fans? I Stress-Tested Stadium Phone Service at a Match [3d]
- Waymo Plans to Expand Driverless Cars to 4 More Major Cities This Year [3d]
- NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Just Woke Up From a Long Nap Ahead of Exploring Beyond Pluto [3d]
- I Made a Smart TV Dumber to Escape Being Tracked. Here's How [3d]
- You Can Now Remix Your Google Photos Into Stylized Videos With Gemini Omni [3d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 9 #858 [3d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 9, #1124 [3d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 9, #1846 [3d]
- 'Moana' Review: A Disney Live-Action Remake That's Actually Worth Your Time [3d]
- How to Find, Copy and Share Wi-Fi Passwords on Your iPhone and iPad [3d]
- Holding Onto an Old T-Mobile Plan? It's Automatically Changing in a Few Days [3d]
- ChatGPT's New Voice Models Can 'Listen' and 'Talk' at the Same Time [3d]
- Meta Addresses One Smart Glasses Privacy Problem, but Many Others Remain Unsolved [3d]
- 'Love Island USA' Season 8: When Does Episode 32 Come Out? [3d]
- FIFA World Cup 2026: Where to Watch Every Remaining Match Without Cable [3d]
- Steam Machine Review in Progress: So Many Questions for Such a Little Box [3d]
- OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Is Dropping on Thursday: What's Different About Sol, Terra and Luna [3d]
- Online Privacy Shouldn't Be So Much Effort and So Expensive [3d]
- Sony to End Game Discs, Anthropic's Deal With California and Meta Smart Glasses Rate Limits | Tech Today video [3d]
- 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Gets a Streaming Date: When to Watch on Peacock [3d]
- DuckDuckGo's Free Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Video Ads [3d]
- I Tried NordicTrack’s $5,000 Smart Pilates Reformer and It Won Me Over [3d]
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