The Brutalist Report - tech
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- It's a shame what's happened to radio [1d]
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- An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf] [2d]
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- Furtex: Post-exploitation, rootkit and evasion research toolkit for Linux [2d]
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- Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA [2d]
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- Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want [2d]
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- Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored [2d]
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- "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok [2d]
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- A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample [2d]
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- Show HN: Browser Tools SDK – an optimal browser harness for agents [2d]
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- Mickey Mouse Sells a Bundle [2d]
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- Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac [2d]
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- Unified power-user environment and knowledge-representation in Common Lisp [2d]
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- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident [2d]
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- 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling [2d]
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- Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude [2d]
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- Advertise in ChatGPT [2d]
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- The Price of Happiness [2d]
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- Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs [2d]
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- Freeink: Open Ecosystem for E-Readers [2d]
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- AI Agent – TRMNL [2d]
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- Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users [2d]
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- AI Didn't Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult [2d]
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- Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy [2d]
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- Cheap Self-Hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud [2d]
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- Measuring reward-seeking by instilling contrastive beliefs [2d]
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- How did the H1B visa become the 'Indian' visa [2d]
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- Show HN: Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another [2d]
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- YouTube System Design for Robotics Data Infrastructure [2d]
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- Greedy is optimal for single-pass semi-streaming matching [2d]
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- Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports [2d]
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- The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal [2d]
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- Show HN: DocCharm – The help center that keeps itself up to date [2d]
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- Show HN: Imagin Raw – A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac [2d]
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- Firefox Containers Preview [2d]
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- Show HN: I built a command palette for the terminal – 6.2MB, pure Go, no fzf [2d]
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- Laguna S 2.1 [2d]
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- Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting [2d]
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- Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations [2d]
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- Uhubctl – control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs [2d]
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- I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run [2d]
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- Meta's AI Models Are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects [2d]
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- Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer [2d]
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- Show HN: OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents [2d]
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- Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS [2d]
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- Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools [2d]
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- The World's 2,400 Castles [2d]
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- France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027 [2d]
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- Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men [2d]
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- NPM's release cooldown is security theater [2d]
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- Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa [2d]
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- Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage [2d]
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- Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre [2d]
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- Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark [2d]
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- ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud [2d]
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- Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber [2d]
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- Gemini 3.6 Flash [2d]
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- Claude Is Not a Compiler [2d]
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- Sarah's Wager [2d]
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- Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM [2d]
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- Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone [2d]
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- PCjs Machines [2d]
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- Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) [2d]
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- Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup [2d]
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- git's –end-of-options Flag [2d]
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- The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80% [2d]
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- New US homeownership measure puts people first [2d]
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- Sources: Alphabet has more than quadrupled its office space in Miami, partially driven by Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's residential real estate purchases (Anna J Kaiser/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Trump nominates FCC general counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 (Ella Lee/Financial Times) [1d]
- Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [1d]
- London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (John Koetsier/Forbes) [2d]
- Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M+ organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg) [2d]
- OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios) [2d]
- OpenAI adds Nubank founder and CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its board of directors, as the company moves toward a public listing (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark (OpenAI) [2d]
- Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon (Sam Sabin/Axios) [2d]
- Super Micro says Q4 orders have topped $60B and expects gross margins of 15% to 17%, up from its prior forecast of 8.2% to 8.4%; SMCI jumps 13%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters) [2d]
- France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times) [2d]
- OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach was driven by a combination of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" (Ina Fried/Axios) [2d]
- Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes) [2d]
- Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans (New York Times) [2d]
- Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post) [2d]
- Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block) [2d]
- NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times) [2d]
- Federal lobbying disclosures: Anthropic spent $1.97M in Q2, up 26% QoQ, and OpenAI spent $1.2M, up 18%; Meta remained the largest spender at $5.99M, down 15% (Luke Fountain/CNBC) [2d]
- Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the starter pass allows 10 hours of gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET) [2d]
- Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to "cheat", led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute) [2d]
- Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025 (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [2d]
- Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [2d]
- University of Tennessee Research Foundation sues Anthropic in Delaware for allegedly infringing neural network patents, the first such case against Anthropic (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [2d]
- OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says Sam Altman plans to brief the Trump administration and US lawmakers next week on the company's upcoming generation of models (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Tulsee Doshi/Google) [2d]
- Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing output token usage by up to 17% vs. 3.5 Flash (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) [2d]
- Nvidia details its Vera CPU, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, and set for general availability in H2 2026 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, in partnership with Klarna in the US next week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners (Emma Roth/The Verge) [2d]
- Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google) [2d]
- Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) [2d]
- Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valuation, Moonshot plans a final raise at a $50B valuation to capitalize on Kimi K3 buzz before a Hong Kong IPO (Pei Li/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (The Information) [2d]
- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- Intel and Fortinet partner to co-develop the Fortinet Security Processor 6, making Fortinet the first named external customer for the Intel 4 process node (Luke James/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [2d]
- Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Iran's IRGC claims it targeted and "destroyed" Amazon's central data infrastructure in Bahrain using several cruise missiles; Amazon has not acknowledged it (Babak Kamiar/Euronews) [2d]
- This 24-foot inflatable drone can fly for 10 hours, covering 500 miles one way, and can probably fit in your car [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #1137) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #1640) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, July 22 (game #871) [1d]
- Leaving Apple, Intel, and Nvidia in the dust? Huawei could join Samsung as the only tech firms producing its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM [2d]
- 'Either you betray your values, or you become irrelevant': Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the emerging AI industry [2d]
- US Navy plans for 'Air Wing of the Future' with next-generation, pilotless carrier-based 1,150-mile-range drones to fly alongside manned aircraft [2d]
- Forget traditional shipbuilding: Saronic’s new $3.2 billion 'Port Alpha' autonomous navy drone shipyard will be bigger than every 2026 World Cup stadium combined [2d]
- The 8-Hour challenge: SK On says solid-state robot batteries must justify a 4x manufacturing cost jump to replace 'inferior' lithium-ion [2d]
- Trump’s head of AI safety agency just resigned, but he was only on the job for three months [2d]
- UK government says plug-in solar panels will be legal from August 27 — opening the door for Amazon, Lidl, Currys and more to help save you £110 a year [2d]
- Experts warn hackers could shut down entire power grids by hijacking cloud accounts [2d]
- 'Can't fault the HEDDphone D1 in any meaningful way': HEDD's progeny are emphatically excellent wired headphones at a not-unreasonable price [2d]
- This popular simulator game has thousands of positive Steam reviews — and it drops on consoles later this month [2d]
- 'I can't say anything officially, but it doesn't feel like a crazy bet' — Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced director can't confirm post-launch content, but hopes fans continue playing even after GTA 6 comes out [2d]
- Oh thank goodness: the ATSC has updated its rules on TV advertising volume limits to include streaming ads [2d]
- Watch out - that Microsoft Calendar invite dated 2050 could be hiding stolen files and worse [2d]
- '$3.7B lost to deepfakes' — Why social media is the perfect launchpad for AI fraud [2d]
- Little House on the Prairie season 3 and beyond would be a 'dream come true' for one Netflix star — and we can even guess season storylines way before they're renewed [2d]
- Pop singer Lorde slammed Spotify’s AI ‘About the Song’ feature, claiming it’s full of nothing but false details — and now subscribers are starting to catch on [2d]
- Best Buy takes up to $500 off Apple tech in its latest sale — I've picked the 10 best deals on MacBooks, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods [2d]
- 'A reveal later this year has been planned' — Hold on to your sabers fellow Star Wars fans, a new report claims Knights of the Old Republic remake will finally be re-revealed soon [2d]
- 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling [2d]
- Arozzi Arena Nordico Electric Standing Desk review: minimalist design with maximum appeal, but key accessories cost extra [2d]
- Fake FBI social media scams are on the rise — here's what to look out for [2d]
- 10 tech deals for professionals I actually recommend from Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale [2d]
- Is your college laptop struggling? This Intel i5 and 16GB RAM-powered Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 will get you back up and running for £499.99 [2d]
- Exclusive: 'I will always say' — Marvel star Tom Hiddleston reveals whether you 'need to watch' Loki on Disney+ before Avengers: Doomsday is released [2d]
- Universal has dropped a terrifying trailer for new movie Other Mommy — and I can't wait for Jessica Chastain's return to horror [2d]
- ‘The closest thing to an iPad Air in Android form’ — I was impressed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11, but there’s one area where it can't beat Apple [2d]
- Canva wants you to have full control over the design – Code 2.0 just does the heavy lifting for you [2d]
- I asked AI for financial advice on everyday money decisions — and now I understand why regulators are worried [2d]
- Protecting creative storytelling in an AI-first marketing world [2d]
- The best budget OLED TV you can buy just had its price slashed to under $600 at Best Buy [2d]
- Estée Lauder says it was hit by data breach caused by Oracle E-Business issue [2d]
- The agent problem nobody budgeted for [2d]
- Experts warn millions of WordPress websites could be at risk following reveal of worrying bugs [2d]
- With wonderfully designed missions and a plethora satisfying progression systems, Splatoon Raiders is a must-play for Nintendo Switch 2 owners [2d]
- I gave ChatGPT’s new Work mode my most annoying life-admin tasks — and it handled them like a pro [2d]
- Industry analyst reports only 7 PlayStation games 'have sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date' in the US, as fans demand Sony kill its plan to end the production of discs [2d]
- 'I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we're planning' — Xbox's chief strategy officer confirms the company wants to make more exclusives, but 'large live-service titles' will be multiplatform going forward [2d]
- Geekom AX8 Max vs Geekom A9 Max: Which mini PC deal should you buy from $619? [2d]
- HP’s Smart Tank 5101 drops to $170 for back-to-school — and includes 2 years of ink free in the box [2d]
- Ill-fated Companion Cube case for Steam Machine returns as a 3D-printed effort — and it's not the only striking DIY project around Valve's gaming PC [2d]
- 'The trust problem with agentic AI is really a data problem': New report shows rushing into AI deployment could cost your business big time [2d]
- 5 questions to ask before choosing a robot lawn mower, according to a lawnbot exec [2d]
- Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 22, #1859 [1d]
- NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Sent Back Some Awesome Photos of Mars [1d]
- Nintendo Thinks Your Portion of Its Tariff Refund Windfall Should Be $0 [1d]
- Garmin’s Screenless Cirqa Health Tracker Will Be Available This Week [1d]
- Deezer Is Cracking Down on Fake Music and Fake Streams [2d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 22, #667 [2d]
- Samsung’s First Credit Card Launches in the US [2d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 22 #871 [2d]
- The Urgency to Close the AI Gender Divide Before It Affects the Pay Gap [2d]
- LG OLEDs Summon New Prime Video Setting Named Creator Original Picture Mode [2d]
- We’re Asking All the Wrong Questions About AI Companionship [2d]
- Grab the 2-in-1 Microsoft Surface Pro for $300 Off, and Get the Best of Both Worlds [2d]
- The Human in the Noose: On the Special Hell of Marking an AI’s Homework [2d]
- Game On With a Massive $1,500 Off This HP Omen Max Gaming Laptop [2d]
- Google Releases 3 New Gemini Models, 3.5 Pro Still Not Available [2d]
- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, July 21 [2d]
- Samsung’s New AI Health Assistant Aims to Make Health Metrics Actually Useful [2d]
- Return to Halo Almost 25 Years Later With Xbox Game Pass [2d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Find Your Essentials With AirTags 2, Now Back to All-Time Low [2d]
- This Low-Price Acer Phone Has a Rear Display Like a $1,000 Flagship [2d]
- The Light Flip Phone Is a Minimalist Throwback Built With Modern Hardware Sensibilities [2d]
- Meta’s Quest Game Subscribers Will Be Getting Some Xbox Extras [2d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Save $49 on a Pair of Beats’ Best Running Earbuds [2d]
- Splatoon Raiders on Switch 2 Won’t Replace Splatoon 3, but That’s OK [2d]
- I Had No Idea My Coffee Touched This Much Plastic Until I Tried a Zero-Plastic Brewer [2d]
- Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Live: Z Fold 8, Z Flip 8 Expected [2d]
- This Wearable Aims to Improve Your Blood Pressure. It’s Now in the US, and I Got a First Look [2d]
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