The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company (Reuters) [1d]
- Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry (Sam Altman) [1d]
- Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 (Michael Kan/PCMag) [1d]
- Blackstone files for an IPO of a new data center acquisition vehicle to buy already-built and leased properties, and, sources say, plans to raise ~$2B (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information) [1d]
- Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe (Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [1d]
- Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) [1d]
- Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept) [1d]
- Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET) [1d]
- Trump hails Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities", days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (Joe Miller/Financial Times) [1d]
- Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information) [1d]
- San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [1d]
- France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times) [2d]
- Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Documents: Amazon is working on "Project Houdini", which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) [2d]
- Snap announces a partnership between Specs, its AR glasses-focused subsidiary, and Qualcomm, whose Snapdragon XR platform will power Specs' upcoming AI glasses (TechCrunch) [2d]
- CoreWeave says it has signed a multiyear deal with Anthropic, including a variety of Nvidia chips at data centers in the US; it now has 43 active data centers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [2d]
- I matched the upgraded Meta AI against ChatGPT, and you can really tell which AI has social media roots [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, April 11 (game #1538) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, April 11 (game #1035) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, April 11 (game #769) [1d]
- The Dreame Z20 Station is an excellent example of how power, performance and price can be balanced in a cordless vacuum [1d]
- Microsoft hands Linux Foundation key Surface data to help fix laptop battery life [1d]
- 'Shockingly good value': New rugged Android tablet has a built-in 1080p projector, night-vision camera, and only costs $599 [1d]
- I created my dream coffee corner at IKEA for under $100 — and my mornings are about to get a lot cozier [1d]
- 'Experts' to rent for $1 per month: Hostinger debuts 7-person AI team to help SMBs save thousands on consultant fees [1d]
- ‘Computers are no longer a bicycle for the mind’: Frameworks founder says the Steve Jobs era is over and PCs are now a ‘self-driving car that takes you directly to the destination’ [1d]
- The new MacBook Air has already dropped to a record-low price on Amazon [1d]
- No, Elon Musk doesn't want to give you a $5,000 tax refund — it's a scam, here's what to look out for [1d]
- ‘It’s a potential national security threat’: Proton study finds over 3,500 US legislators’ official emails leaked and exposed on the dark web [1d]
- ‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable [1d]
- RTX 5090s and other high-powered graphics cards may carry risks of cable melting issues — but Asus thinks it has solved this problem [1d]
- Former Xbox exec thinks Naughty Dog's decision to cancel the 80% completed The Last of Us Online 'was the right call', but it shouldn't have greenlit it in the first place — 'The ambition was there, but the realistic upfront planning wasn't', she says [1d]
- West Ham vs Wolves Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world [1d]
- Microsoft warns worrying security flaw exposed over 50 million Android users, says 'user credentials and financial data were exposed to risk' [1d]
- ‘Apple will grit its teeth and push through’ — new report suggests the iPhone Air 2 isn’t dead, and I sincerely hope it’s true [2d]
- After soaring 2,200%, DDR4 RAM prices finally fall — but don't get too excited [2d]
- Google Chrome rolls out a new tool to try and stop infostealer malware in its tracks [2d]
- Beyond no-log: Tor looks into seizure-proof servers that forget your data [2d]
- There's a sneaky way to watch IPL 2026 for FREE [2d]
- 'Two Hells collide' — Doom: The Dark Ages and Diablo Immortal unite in a limited-time crossover event, The Slayer Reign, this month [2d]
- Spotify is rolling out new video controls, and as someone who hates its in-app music videos, I know this will be a huge hit [2d]
- 8 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (April 10) [2d]
- AdGuard VPN has a new app for iPhone — and you can try it out for 7 days for free [2d]
- Currys refuses to end its Easter sale — I've found the 21 best tech deals that are still available [2d]
- Amazon is slashing prices on Garmin watches — save up to $350 on best-rated models for running, biking and hiking [2d]
- Inspired to start running this summer? Here are 8 brilliant running shoes I'd recommend for beginners [2d]
- Adobe Reader users beware — experts flag months-old security flaw using booby-trapped PDFs to scope out victims [2d]
- NASA used a 12-year-old GoPro to capture a sight called the ‘greatest gift’ by Artemis II pilot — and it used one extreme setting to get the shot [2d]
- iPhone owners urged to change this key privacy setting after FBI recovers suspect’s deleted Signal messages [2d]
- Stop the presses — Microsoft is actually cutting cloud PC prices for SMBs, promises to make it 'more cost-effective for small and medium businesses' [2d]
- Euphoria season 3 full release schedule: what is the launch date and time for episode 1 on HBO Max? [2d]
- Microsoft has begun stripping out AI from Windows 11 — but it's already being criticized for not going far enough [2d]
- How to read Murder in Purple and Gold online from anywhere [2d]
- Garmin's cashing in on the screenless Whoop-style smart band trend with its upcoming CIRQA — here's the proof [2d]
- YouTube insists that a 90-sec, unskippable ad format 'isn't something we are testing' — but furious users say 'they very much exist' [2d]
- ‘Everything is magenta’: This wild hack got Mac OS X Cheetah working on a Nintendo Wii, and I can’t quite believe it [2d]
- 'If one piece of your supply chain is delayed, then your whole project can't deliver': Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 canceled or delayed — and things could soon get much worse [2d]
- A new free-to-play Borderlands game gets surprise drop on mobile, which Zynga says is part of a 'limited-time test' [2d]
- I spent a week testing the Xiaomi 17, and it outmuscles the iPhone 17 and Galaxy S26 in several key areas [2d]
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