The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs [6d]
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- SprintiQ – open-source sprint planning for Claude Code [6d]
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- What do we lose when AI does our work? [6d]
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- Agent Skills [6d]
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- 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level [6d]
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- Welcome to Gas City [6d]
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- Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 [6d]
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- Claude Is Dead [6d]
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- When Networking Doesn't Work [6d]
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- Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) [6d]
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- Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight [6d]
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- Transformers Are Inherently Succinct [6d]
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- How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale [6d]
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- Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 [6d]
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- Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers [6d]
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- White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released [6d]
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- DHS Demanded Google Data on Canadian's Activity, Location over Anti-ICE Posts [6d]
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- The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) [6d]
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- Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens [6d]
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- Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused [6d]
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- Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline [6d]
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- Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI [6d]
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- Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) [6d]
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- Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC [6d]
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- 37x Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow [6d]
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- U.S. military data left exposed at an a16z startup for 150 days [6d]
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- Days Without GitHub Incidents [6d]
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- Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge [6d]
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- 'Kitten Space Agency' Is the Spiritual Successor to 'Kerbal Space Program' [6d]
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- Let's Talk about LLMs [6d]
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- Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing [6d]
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- Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts [6d]
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- US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants [6d]
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- Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to [6d]
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- The Visible Zorker: Zork 3 [6d]
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- I am worried about Bun [6d]
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- Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) [6d]
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- "They would never use the death star on us" [6d]
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- OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools [6d]
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- RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust [6d]
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- Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter [6d]
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- GitHub Is Down [6d]
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- Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation [6d]
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- Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster [6d]
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- Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks [6d]
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- Dithering with CSS [6d]
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- 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' [6d]
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- I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months [6d]
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- Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 [6d]
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- Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database [6d]
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- Redis array: short story of a long development process [6d]
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- How Monero's proof of work works [6d]
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- Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive [6d]
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- How Many Children Learned Mathematics from Kiselev's Textbooks? [6d]
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- Show HN: Let – Offline-first life events tracker (React Native, SQLite) [6d]
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- A Simpler Parametrization for Modern Optimizers [6d]
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- Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets [6d]
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- Gaps in national food production, worldwide [6d]
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- PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out [6d]
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- Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test [6d]
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- DAG Workflow Engine [6d]
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- Adding a feature to a closed-source app [6d]
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- How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research (Peter Loftus/Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian) [6d]
- Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $955M, above est., and a $154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) [6d]
- New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [6d]
- Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC) [6d]
- Duolingo reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $292M, vs. $288.5M est., bookings up 14% to $308.5M, and expects slower growth in Q2; DUOL drops 12%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters) [6d]
- Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm (Bloomberg) [6d]
- Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $1.63B, vs. $1.54B est., US government revenue up 84% to $687M, and US commercial revenue up 133% to $595M (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) [6d]
- Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5%+ stake he had in the company (Nicola M White/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [6d]
- Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks but his concerns about AI's existential threats were excluded by the judge (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [6d]
- Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release (New York Times) [6d]
- Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (New York Times) [6d]
- Why there is a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their own successors by the end of 2028, and a look at the consequences of fully automated AI R&D (Jack Clark/Import AI) [6d]
- Sources: Apple prepares a "Create a Pass" feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (Dylan Martin/CRN) [6d]
- Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, "emotionally intelligent" robot that reacts to owner's feelings (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google (Bloomberg) [6d]
- Sources: more than two dozen prediction-market ETFs have been pushed back as the SEC seeks more information; they were originally expected to launch this week (Suzanne McGee/Reuters) [6d]
- Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as $1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at $250M-$1.5B (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M (Meir Orbach/CTech) [6d]
- Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector (Reuters) [6d]
- Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine) [6d]
- Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) [6d]
- How "emotion AI", the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (Ellen Cushing/The Atlantic) [6d]
- SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research) [6d]
- Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC) [6d]
- Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more (Ben Weiss/Fortune) [6d]
- The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [6d]
- eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops ~4% (Bloomberg) [6d]
- Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman "will be the most hated men in America" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [6d]
- Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [6d]
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- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1059) [6d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1562) [6d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #793) [6d]
- Micron CEO warns 'AI is in very early innings' and it will 'need more memory' — another ominous sign the RAM crisis isn't going anywhere [6d]
- 'Help cattle producers hold onto their land and livelihoods': This first-of-its-kind solar ranch in Tennessee uses ingenious sensors to shelter cattle and cut carbon emissions — and it could help to offset $1 billion of US agriculture declines [6d]
- Microsoft continues the good work on Windows 11, with tweaks to 'quiet' ads — and that big taskbar change is 'coming soon' [6d]
- ‘More powerful and versatile than any other personal fan I’ve tested’ — I reviewed Shark’s 3-in-1 portable fan and have never experienced so many different kinds of cooling [6d]
- 'Flaws identified in the B-21 configuration': Chinese scientists claim their mysterious PADJ-X stealth design software exposed major weaknesses in the USAF’s B-21 Raider program using digital twins [6d]
- Gen Z hate AI? The Musk vs Altman trial heats up, OpenAI phone rumors buzz and more of the week’s most surprising developments [6d]
- MacBook Pro M4 vs iMac M4: which Mac is best for you? [6d]
- I searched the galaxy for the best Star Wars Day 2026 deals — these are the Lego sets, Funko Pops, apparel, and collectibles worth buying [6d]
- I couldn't believe how easy it was to get my first online shop up and running thanks to Prestashop [6d]
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 3 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer? [6d]
- Forget GPUs — China unveils 2 ExaFLOPS supercomputer using only CPUs, packing 47,000 processors into 92 compute cabinets as it looks to supersede the US once again [6d]
- 'This is the robot I wanted to build forever': former iRobot chief on his extraordinary 'Familiar' AI companion [6d]
- Facebook is annoying as hell but I'm not sure it's a public nuisance [6d]
- I tried the open-source Piwigo, and it made me ditch Google Photos [6d]
- The equatorial Luna Ring is the brainchild of a billion-dollar Japanese engineering conglomerate whose visionary team dreams of billions of megawatts of electricity generated by solar panel clusters the size of Texas and California put together [6d]
- IKEA's donut-shaped Varmblixt smart lamp shines candy-colored light anywhere in your home, though the app experience isn't quite as sweet [6d]
- What is the release date for The Boys season 5 episode 6 on Prime Video? [6d]
- China says it is illegal for companies to fire humans if AI takes their jobs [6d]
- 007 First Light’s Bond gets creative in ways that would make Agent 47 smile [6d]
- 18 travel tech essentials to survive trade-show season — because your hotel room wasn't built for work [6d]
- Secretlab is marking Star Wars Day with the release of a new Mandalorian-themed chair [6d]
- The global memory shortage: The hidden bottleneck behind the AI boom [6d]
- I just found the best Star Wars desk accessory at Amazon for Star Wars Day — and this replica has definitely 'got it where it counts, kid' [6d]
- I tested the Hoover HL2 TurboStyle — a lightweight upright vacuum cleaner that punches above its weight, mostly [6d]
- I'm a Google Maps power user — here are 10 tips and features I can't live without [6d]
- These are the 4 new 4K Blu-rays I'm most looking forward to testing in May 2026 — and one of them is 'easily one of my most anticipated discs ever' [6d]
- 'I have a bad feeling about this': 20+ Star Wars gadgets I can't believe actually exist [6d]
- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M4) vs MacBook Pro 16-inch (M4): Which is the one for you? [6d]
- OpenAI is making ChatGPT accounts much more secure – including some literal physical security keys [6d]
- What is the release date for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 8 on Disney+? [6d]
- I loved how many features this affordable gaming soundbar has, but audiophiles might want to look elsewhere [6d]
- Employees are now more dangerous to their company than external hackers [6d]
- This budget gaming laptop with an RTX 4050 and Intel Core 5 just dropped under $900 at Amazon [6d]
- “An enormous cityscape of stackable guava-colored boxes” — I compared a dozen $10 IKEA speakers to one $120 JBL speaker to see whether sheer numbers are a substitute for better sound engineering [6d]
- I turned my local beauty spot into an immersive 3D environment using Splatica and my Insta360 cameras — and the whole process is surprisingly easy [6d]
- Forget Whoop, Apple, Garmin, and all the rest — when it comes to lifting weights, I've never found a better solution than a spreadsheet [6d]
- WatchOS 27 Set to Get Slimmed-Down Watch Ultra Face, Report Says [6d]
- Surfshark Adds Vega OS Support, Expanding VPN Access on Amazon Fire TV [6d]
- Google Pixel 11 Rumored to Come With a Better Camera, but Less RAM [6d]
- iOS 27 Might Let Users Create Custom Passes for Apple Wallet App [6d]
- And the Oscar Does Not Go to… AI 'Actors' and AI-Written Screenplays, the Academy Says [6d]
- Utah Will Ban VPN Use to Circumvent Age Verification [6d]
- HBO Max: The 32 Absolute Best TV Shows to Watch [6d]
- Apple's New Rainbow Pride Band Is 10 Years In the Making [6d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 5, #588 [6d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 5, #1059 [6d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 5, #793 [6d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 5, #1781 [6d]
- Mustache Mischief: Kids Bypass UK's Digital Age Barriers [6d]
- Sony to Pay $7.85M in PlayStation Store Settlement. What to Know [6d]
- iOS 26.5 Will Likely Bring End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging to Your iPhone [6d]
- Need to Ask Jeeves Something? Sorry, It's Too Late [6d]
- Spirit Airlines Has Shut Down. What Now? [6d]
- I Resurrected My Favorite Childhood Games Using Gemini Vibe Coding [6d]
- 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' Sneak Peeks Hit Theaters and Disney Plus on Star Wars Day [6d]
- Valve Steam Controller Review: It May Be My Favorite Controller, Period [6d]
- 9 Gift Ideas Perfect for Moms Who Value Self-Care and Staying Active [6d]
- Motorola's Razr Fold Wows With Bright Screens and a Big Battery video [6d]
- We've Got Live Star Wars Deals for All, Not Just for Men, but for the Women and the Children [6d]
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