The Brutalist Report - tech
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- FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide) [1d]
- Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management has filed applications to trademark the singer's voice and image, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI (Josh Gerben/Gerben IP) [1d]
- Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Giada Zampano/Associated Press) [1d]
- Apple will let developers offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment starting in May, except in the US and Singapore (Eric Slivka/MacRumors) [1d]
- Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic "claw" tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [1d]
- Renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later this year, show a design nearly identical to Ray-Ban Meta glasses (Alexander Maxham/Android Headlines) [1d]
- Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk) [1d]
- Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial (Wired) [1d]
- Jury selection begins in Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California, with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in attendance (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [1d]
- Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) [1d]
- GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog) [1d]
- The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are "unwarranted intervention" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) [1d]
- More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) [1d]
- Kashable, which lets companies offer "socially responsible" credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [1d]
- PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment (Jer/@lifeof_jer) [1d]
- Canva says it "moved quickly to investigate and fix" an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word "Palestine" in designs, after a viral X post (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [1d]
- Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI "superlearners" (Will Knight/Wired) [1d]
- Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause in their deal that would grant Microsoft IP rights up until OpenAI achieved "AGI", replacing it with a fixed-term agreement (Aaron Holmes/The Information) [1d]
- Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique "multicore" architecture, extends its Series A to $140M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [1d]
- Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI (OpenAI) [2d]
- Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium users access to playlists and a catalog of 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times) [2d]
- San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers (Paresh Dave/Wired) [2d]
- Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more (Nicole Sperling/New York Times) [2d]
- Meta says it signed a deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of space solar energy; the startup seeks to collect sunlight in satellites, with a demonstration in 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Analysis: as of late 2025, 79 of 500 tracked software companies including HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce adopted usage-based AI fees, more than doubling on 2024 (The Information) [2d]
- A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation (Financial Times) [2d]
- Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Chinese regulators block Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus, after reviewing whether the deal violated Beijing's investment rules; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (Arjun Neil Alim/Financial Times) [2d]
- A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized "clipping" for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes) [2d]
- A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical (Bloomberg) [2d]
- A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more (Neil Hacker/Works in Progress) [2d]
- Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption (Sam Goldfarb/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources detail Microsoft's "Windows K2", an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [2d]
- Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 (@mingchikuo) [2d]
- Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted crucial PCB raw material supplies; Goldman Sachs says PCB prices surged as much as 40% MoM in April (Reuters) [2d]
- Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules for online platforms, calling for standardized contracts, fair pay, and stronger labor protections (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial robots to handle tasks they haven't been trained on, raised a $110M Series B led by Headline (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Filing: Beijing-based GPU maker Moore Threads reports Q1 revenue up 155% YoY to ~$107.89M, and a $4.3M net profit, up from a ~$16.46M net loss in Q1 2025 (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post) [2d]
- Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors (Financial Times) [2d]
- Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentences ex-Tokyo Electron engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison for stealing TSMC's proprietary data (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) [2d]
- OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai) [2d]
- An interview with Bill Nguyen, a tech entrepreneur who is completely outsourcing parts of his life to an AI assistant in his bid to create a virtual body double (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) [2d]
- Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a nice achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American) [2d]
- Cyera agrees to acquire Ryft, an Israeli startup building automated data access and governance tools for enterprise AI deployment, sources say for $100M-$130M (Meir Orbach/CTech) [2d]
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- I used the same camera to photograph the moon as the Artemis II astronauts, and it's probably the closest I'll ever get to going into space — but it also showed me I've got a lot to learn about astrophotography [1d]
- Acer ProCreator PE320QXT review: This 6K touchscreen monitor is aggressively priced, but I'd still swap the touch capabilities for an even cheaper display [1d]
- 'The future of the CH-47 Chinook': See the legendary twin rotor morph into a massive drone-swarming mothership [1d]
- 'The death of Top Gun' — Ukraine becomes the first to scale remotely operated interceptors that can score aerial kills from "thousands of kilometers" away while staying in bunkers as era of pilotless dogfighting and zero crew casualties takes to the sky [1d]
- 'The world’s largest untapped frontier': NASA-led startup is replacing $100k-a-day ships with ‘AI-infused’ autonomous robots [1d]
- 'It’s not safe and it’s not easy, but people are drawn to it anyway': Directive 8020's executive producer on why space was the perfect setting for their long-awaited new horror game [1d]
- I tried using ChatGPT to follow The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People step by step — and it made one of the most famous self-improvement systems feel surprisingly simple to put into practice [1d]
- Ulefone Armor Pad 5 Ultra review: A beast of a rugged tablet with the weight to prove it built for punishing environments and DLP projector to boot [1d]
- 'Near-unlimited AI coding for $50': Mini PC bundle gives programmers up to 288,000 prompts over 90 days [1d]
- AI did what? ChatGPT's big upgrade, Google’s plans to make AI invisible, DeepSeek’s return and more of the week’s most surprising developments [1d]
- Neurodivergent teacher uses dyscalculia "superpower" to recreate full-scale, whale-sized replica of world's first programmable digital computer — 21st-century ENIAC used almost 3,000 sq ft of cardboard and NASA's Artemis II may be his next big challenge [1d]
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 2 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer? [1d]
- 'Unfortunately, it needs to be said: Do not send a text to confirm you are human': Experts reveal how fake CAPTCHAs are driving a global SMS scam campaign [1d]
- Can any TV beat this one for value right now? The TCL QM6K is a 75-inch mini-LED that 'punches above its weight' — and it's only $680 [1d]
- I’m a PC gamer of over 30 years, and the Valve Steam Controller (2026) is now one of my favorite gamepads since Sega dropped out of the console wars [1d]
- ‘Every label in the world is delivering AI’: Apple Music executive says over a third of uploads are ‘100% AI’ as it clamps down on AI fraud [1d]
- James Gunn cautiously reveals that 2 beleaguered DC comic book shows are still 'in development' — but the DCU's biggest movie gamble has been shelved [1d]
- The Ninja Creami is no longer the only ice cream machine in town — here are the alternatives I have my eye on for this summer's chilled treats [1d]
- My top 10 Amazon deals for a smarter office set-up — essential desk accessories from TP-Link, Lexar, Cooler Master, and more [1d]
- Get in line! Tesla Supercharger fights are on the rise over queue-jumpers — so the EV giant is rolling out a new 'Virtual Queue' system to help diffuse 'screaming arguments' [1d]
- ‘This was not an isolated incident’: Chinese national exposed by NASA investigation in serial defense software theft phishing campaign that lasted years [1d]
- Crimson Desert has 'opened a new chapter in K-content', according to the South Korea Prime Minister — and the game's Steam player count highlights that, beating the likes of Marvel Rivals, and keeping players interested even more than Elden Ring did [1d]
- Google Workspace gets a new intelligence layer to make Gemini more of an agentic assistant [1d]
- Man Utd vs Brentford Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world [1d]
- Still frustrated with the Sonos app? People have been making alternatives using AI, so solve long-standing annoyances — and some are pretty damn cool [1d]
- The Argos bank holiday sale starts now with up to 40% off tech, appliances, toys, and more — here are the 13 best deals I've found [1d]
- Beat the storage price hikes with my top 5 SSD deals — save on ultra-fast drives from Samsung, WD_Black, and Kingston with discounts up to $1043 in Amazon's Gaming Week sale [1d]
- Intel reportedly selling 'scrap or low-expectation' chips is an ominous sign that CPU price hikes might get worse [1d]
- Don't tell the boss but I've found 8 hybrid gaming & office chair deals for work and play in Amazon's surprise Gaming Week sale — save on stealth seating from Corsair, Razer, Eureka Ergonomic, and more [1d]
- Right now is likely the best time to buy a MacBook — there's a model for everybody, and they're all on sale too [1d]
- New 'Firestarter' malware flames on in spite of Cisco firewall updates and security patches [1d]
- Microsoft Outlook down? Email problems hit users across the world - here's what we know [1d]
- 'Definitely positive news': the Pixel boot bug nightmare might soon be over, but there's a new issue to worry about [1d]
- Think you've got a marathon in you? I can't help you break a two-hour record, but I can help kit you out with everything you need to run your first race — here are 10 essential bits of running kit recommended by me, a fitness editor [1d]
- Stop using your selfie camera — this affordable accessory has been the solution to my years-long vlogging headache [1d]
- 'There will be no doubt who the gods have chosen to rule': House of the Dragon season 3 lands late June release date as fiery new trailer teases deadly events to come [1d]
- The Samsung Galaxy Glasses have leaked — and they look a lot like their Ray-Ban Meta rivals, but with one key advantage [1d]
- Utility giant Itron confirms cyberattack, says internal systems were accessed [1d]
- The fake Rolex problem: How AI turned amateur attackers into nation-state threats [1d]
- Google Cloud unveils eighth-generation TPUs built to support an agentic era [1d]
- ‘Extraction and distillation’: US State Department upgrades AI theft accusations to target China’s Deepseek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax [2d]
- Belkin’s Lilypad iPad case brings Toy Story 5’s newest character into the real world in the most functional way yet [2d]
- Jensen Huang tells CEOs 'don't leave' California — Nvidia CEO says he's fine paying the ‘highest taxes in the world' [2d]
- Gamers, it's time to get excited — the Steam Machine's price and launch date may be imminent [2d]
- What is the release date for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 7 on Disney+? [2d]
- I played an hour of Supermassive Games' highly anticipated Directive 8020 — and fans of Alien: Isolation are going to adore this [2d]
- ‘This could potentially become a fire risk’: Samsung Galaxy users warned against leaving their flashlights on accidentally, as viral TikTok shows an S25 flash burning a hole through a plastic bag [2d]
- This $89 Asus 120Hz IPS monitor is the perfect budget upgrade for your home office — and it even comes with a month of Adobe Creative Cloud free [2d]
- Got a new Samsung Galaxy A37? I've found the best cases to keep it looking scratch-free and super stylish [2d]
- 'They don't care': ShinyHunters strike again as hackers claim to have pinched 7.5 million Carnival cruise emails [2d]
- Spotify is expanding into fitness in partnership with Peloton — its new Fitness hub is available today, and is designed to help you ‘build momentum’ and ‘improve your wellbeing’ [2d]
- 'A price that seems like a mistake': I've tested tons of open earbuds, and Earfun's new clip-style buds are the best cheaper pair I'd actually recommend — here's my full review [2d]
- Finally, some good news for PC builders — forget the never-ending price increases as Amazon cuts prices on three powerful AMD Ryzen CPUs, giving you more performance for less money [2d]
- ‘We will learn quickly and course-correct’ — Sam Altman says this is OpenAI’s future, but it’s not the one it started with [2d]
- Hasbro unveils new figurines for Spider-Man: Brand New Day — and MCU fans think they spoil a big 'badass' event in Tom Holland's next Marvel movie [2d]
- The Garmin Vivoactive 5 offers a 'perfect balance' of health and fitness tracking — now over 25% off at Amazon [2d]
- Exclusive: Piaggio Fast Forward is back with another Star Wars cargo robot — and this time it gets a Grogu makeover [2d]
- QD-OLED's long-rumored 83-inch TV size and 24-inch monitor size look like they're coming at last: Samsung Display registered them with display certification program UL Solutions to prove how good the panels are — now we just need them to launch [2d]
- Dutton Ranch season 2 is already in trouble before even being greenlit — Chad Feehan's exit as showrunner proves why 'unhappy' Taylor Sheridan should stay in charge [2d]
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