The Brutalist Report - tech
system |
|
- Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office (ABC News) [2d]
- Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) [2d]
- Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M+, and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B (The Robot Report) [2d]
- Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) [2d]
- Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law) [2d]
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their "return of Xbox" strategy, including daily active players as its "new north star" (Tom Warren/The Verge) [2d]
- Instagram launched Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy this week, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider) [2d]
- OpenAI says "GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence" (OpenAI) [2d]
- Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity (Anthropic) [2d]
- GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [2d]
- GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT (The Verge) [2d]
- OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- OpenAI unveils GPT 5.5, intended to be better at completing work without much direction, saying the model "kind of figures it out, deals with ambiguity" (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as "Xbox needs to be our identity" (Tom Warren/The Verge) [2d]
- Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [2d]
- A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (Tom Warren/The Verge) [2d]
- Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation "builder", and "builder leaders" for managers (Greg Bensinger/Reuters) [2d]
- Manila-based Salmon, a consumer finance app targeting underbanked Filipinos, raised $60M in equity and $40M in debt; it raised $310M to date, $160M in equity (Kate Park/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ (Tom Warren/The Verge) [2d]
- Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors (Reuters) [2d]
- Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing (Olivia Raimonde/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) [2d]
- WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Memo: White House says it has info indicating "foreign entities, principally based in China" are engaged in "industrial scale distillation" of American AI tech (Financial Times) [2d]
- Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) [2d]
- Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Chris Metinko/Axios) [2d]
- How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted (Shawn Wen/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks (Gil Kaufman/Billboard) [2d]
- Lyft agrees to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company expands its presence beyond the US (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Petual, which automates internal audit work and generates auditor-ready workpapers, raised $20M across a pre-seed led by First Round and a seed led by a16z (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [2d]
- Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk) [2d]
- No new articles in the Past 12 Hours.
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, April 24 (game #782) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, April 24 (game #1551) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, April 24 (game #1048) [2d]
- Google is turning AI into the layer over everything — and apps may never feel the same [2d]
- '100% accurate' Off Campus trailer praised as book fans are convinced Dean and Allie's scene means Prime Video romance drama is 'getting season 2' [2d]
- 'We love you, and we want you to win' — OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 for ChatGPT [2d]
- Australia joins countries trialing Claude Mythos 'to make sure we are aware of emerging vulnerabilities' [2d]
- Exclusive: BDX Droid figures, a talking Mandalorian, and more Star Wars toys are landing at Disney Store for May the 4th [2d]
- Thermal Master P4 review: Easily the best phone-connected thermal camera yet, but it's not perfect [2d]
- Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and so are we — these are 5 of the platform’s landmark moments and yes, one of them involves Taylor Swift [2d]
- The dark side of AI —shocking report reveals 11 planned AI data centers connected to OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft could produce more greenhouse gases than Morocco [2d]
- Is that it? IKEA's has a limited-edition merch range to mark its 40th birthday — but it's rather underwhelming [2d]
- 'Long term, the only manually driven car will be the Tesla Roadster': Elon Musk says future lineup is going to be almost entirely autonomous [2d]
- 'Identity is the new battleground': Why your IT helpdesk is suddenly getting a lot of bizarre calls [2d]
- If you think this Unitree G1 robot rollerblading is scary, wait until you see it iceskating — robot Winter Olympics can’t be far behind, and we should talk about robot mobility [2d]
- What is the release date for Marshals: A Yellowstone Story episode 9 on CBS and Paramount+? [2d]
- This free NASA tool lets you make a personalized satellite photo —and it's the most fun you'll have on Earth Day [2d]
- 'Just use the manual': I followed ChatGPT's PC-building instructions, and all I got was a huge headache and a schooling on prompting [2d]
- 'Humans being optional': Gartner says robots will dominate workload handling in 50% of new warehouses by 2030 [2d]
- 'An AI-led defense strategy that's overseen by humans': Google is introducing more agents to its 'full AI stack' to allow AI security at 'infinite scale' [2d]
- I've been a Spotify subscriber for 17 years — here are the top 5 plug-ins I recommend for the music streamer [2d]
- UleFone RugKing 5 Pro review: While this rugged phone built to a price, it does have some virtues to offset the vices [2d]
- Nintendo teases they'd 'like to adhere' to the Super Mario Galaxy Movie's lore in future games — including Princess Peach's backstory [2d]
- Nintendo fans are suing the company for a tariff refund — but they're unlikely to succeed [2d]
- "Hackers can now launch massive 2Tbps attacks": Report reveals staggering 10x growth in botnet size with record-breaking DDoS incidents peaking for 40 minutes as multi-vector attacks grow in complexity and become harder to dismantle [2d]
- I found a £449 Lenovo mini PC deal for the office — the compact IdeaCentre Mini with Intel Core 5 processor and 16GB RAM gets a huge price cut in Amazon's surprise Tech Week sale but stock is running out fast [2d]
- There's a massive Sony headphones sale ahead of its rumored 2026 launch — score record-low prices starting at just $39.99 [2d]
- Forget the cloud or pricey portable SSDs — back up your files restore classic disc backups to modern laptops with these budget DVD writer deals [2d]
- PlayStation users are now being asked for age verification in the UK and Ireland, or risk losing access to communication features when it soon becomes mandatory [2d]
- Major Russian Android apps know who's using a VPN, digital rights group warns [2d]
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced revealed — 'Every single small moment of the game had to be rebuilt and crafted' developer says [2d]
- 'It really is like having your own personal camera operator': The Insta360 Link 2 is the 4K webcam to buy in Amazon's big tech sale — but I found 4 more deals you won't want to miss if you're a creator or business professional [2d]
- Vercel identifies more accounts 'with evidence of prior compromise' exposed during security incident [2d]
- How to watch NFL Draft 2026: FREE live streams, schedule, TV channels [2d]
- UK government’s child safety plans could expose kids to 'greater harms,' warns VPN industry group [2d]
- This Razer DeathAdder Essential for under £20 is everything you need in a cheap gaming mouse [2d]
- I tried the app Whoop just sued — and it’d be a real shame if it lost the battle [2d]
- 'It would be my pick': I tested the LG C6 and LG C5 OLED TVs side-by-side, and I'm impressed by the upgrade — but it's not all clear-cut [2d]
- ‘A phone that just works’ — I tested the Samsung Galaxy A57, and it's a competent all-rounder with no wow factor [2d]
- Leica Chairman says 'a true Leica sensor' is coming, and image quality may never be the same [2d]
- Crimson Desert's biggest update yet has arrived, adding three new difficulty modes and storage content, as Pearl Abyss teases a new way to 'face off against the bosses of your choice' soon [2d]
- 'Prices are probably going to be so bad, no one will be able to afford the things anyway': worrying rumor aired on the cost of Microsoft's next-gen Surface devices [2d]
- 'I was printing labels within ten minutes of opening the box': This can't-miss deal on the best shipping label printer our printing expert has ever tested is a dream for small businesses and retailers [2d]
- 'Could be the best open earbuds yet' — Honor's new clips solve my biggest open earbud problem, and I'm already ready to hand out awards [2d]
- DJI fans will miss out on 25 drone and camera launches this year thanks to FCC ban — as appeal reveals $1.5 billion financial hit causing the company 'immediate and grave harm' [2d]
- How to watch Australian Survivor: Redemption on 10Play (it's free) [2d]
- For All Mankind creators drop first 'pulse-pounding' trailer for Star City — and I think the new Apple TV sci-fi space race drama could be even darker [2d]
- This new Microsoft 365 Copilot feature could throw your GDPR compliance into question — here's how to check, and how turn it off [2d]
- 'It ultimately made people realize that music was worth paying for': Spotify's Sten Garmark on how the streaming giant created an entirely new business model, and its mission to convince users that 'there was something better than free' [2d]
- Don't miss this Dell desktop deal: The best business computer we've tested gets a £380 discount in the Amazon sale — with these specs it's effectively a workstation for professionals [2d]
- Report claims a new 'pick-your-own' Xbox Game Pass plan is in the works, allowing users to decide what content they want for their membership [2d]
- "Push them to the limit": MIT researchers almost double SSD performance 'for free' but only for data centers [2d]
- ‘The product wasn’t ready’: Tim Cook says the Apple Maps launch was his biggest mistake — even as Google confirms that the new Siri delays will stretch beyond two years [2d]
- The new DJI Lito has landed — but right now the 'superb' DJI Mini 4K has nose-dived to a new low price [2d]
- ShinyHunters exposes data on Mytheresa, Zara, Carnival, 7-Eleven – over 40 organizations tied up in new data trove which will stay up 'indefinitely' [2d]
- The extremely handy Ring Battery Doorbell is now even cheaper at 40% off on Amazon [2d]
- The next Heroes of Might and Magic is launching in early access this month — 'We want to do all of the development with community in mind' says dev [2d]
- 'A huge step up over the Mini 4K, and my favorite new beginner drone’ — the DJI Lito X1 quadcopter sets new standards, and it’s incredible value too [2d]
- Meta Centralizes Access to Facebook, Instagram, AI Glasses and More Apps [2d]
- My Dog Is Banned From the Groomers. Is This Pet Vacuum Tool the At-Home Solution? [2d]
- Mullvad VPN Creates iOS Master Switch to Protect Users From Data Leaks [2d]
- Parents Can Now See What Their Kids Are Asking Meta AI About [2d]
- Samsung Brings Ikea Smart Home Support to Its Platform, With One Important Caveat [2d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 24, #578 [2d]
- ChatGPT Helped Plan FSU Shooting, Florida Officials Say [2d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 24, #1770 [2d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 24 #782 [2d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 24, #1048 [2d]
- LG's Micro RGB TVs Boast Big Screens, Big Colors and Big Prices [2d]
- Choosing a College Degree? AI Can Help You Narrow It Down [2d]
- You Can Now Stream DirecTV on Your Meta Quest Headset [2d]
- Happy 20th Birthday, Spotify. Here's the Platform's Most Streamed of All Time [2d]
- Tesla Owners May Need to Visit New Microfactories to Update Full Self-Driving [2d]
- Elon Musk's SpaceX Teams Up With Cursor for AI Coding: How Rockets and AI Fit Together [2d]
- Claude Can Connect to More Apps You Use Every Day [2d]
- The Motorola Razr Fold Has a UK Price, but Will It Be So Expensive in the US? [2d]
- ChatGPT 5.5 Is All About Math, Science and AI Research [2d]
- From Tea Leaves to AI: Why Today's High-Tech Predictions Are So Dangerous [2d]
- When to Stream 'Marty Supreme' on HBO Max [2d]
- You Should Have Exactly 3 Pairs of Headphones. Here's Why [2d]
- Tim Cook Only Half Solved Tech We Wear on Our Faces. Now It's Ternus' Turn [2d]
- How to Use Apple's Clean Up Tool to Remove Unwanted People and Things From Your Photos [2d]
- Google Wallet Brings Travel Updates Directly to Android Home Screens [2d]
- Hand-Picked Favorites: The Best Online Flower Delivery Services of 2026, as Tested by CNET [2d]
- Is Your Old Phone Gathering Dust? Make It Your Dedicated Music Hub [2d]
- Toy Story 5 Promotion Spoons Up Nostalgia With the Return of Cereal Box Toys [2d]
- Trading Up to a New Smartphone or Tablet? How to Get Top Dollar for Your Old One [2d]
- How McAfee Helped Me Tidy Up Decades of Digital Detritus [2d]
Previous Day