The Brutalist Report - tech
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- DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to [5d]
- Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend [5d]
- Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw [5d]
- More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook [5d]
- Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked [5d]
- OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year [5d]
- Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking [5d]
- Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb [5d]
- SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition [5d]
- Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch [5d]
- VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination [5d]
- Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents [5d]
- ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild [5d]
- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more [5d]
- Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday [5d]
- Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal [5d]
- IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf [5d]
- Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area [5d]
- ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower [5d]
- DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to [5d]
- NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns [5d]
- Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof [5d]
- Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw [5d]
- More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook [5d]
- Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked [5d]
- Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking [5d]
- Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release [5d]
- SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition [5d]
- VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination [5d]
- ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild [5d]
- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more [5d]
- Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [5d]
- Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [5d]
- Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) [5d]
- EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) [5d]
- GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28% (Patrick Seitz/Investor's Business Daily) [5d]
- Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (Lola Murti/CNBC) [5d]
- A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) [5d]
- Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters) [5d]
- Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the "revenue backlog" Google disclosed last week (The Information) [5d]
- Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a "personalized" Siri in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [5d]
- AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, as AI chip demand stays strong (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) [5d]
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox "will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console" as part of a strategic shift (Jay Peters/The Verge) [5d]
- Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) [5d]
- Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying "he knows rockets, he knows electric cars" but "does not know AI" (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [5d]
- Blitzy, which says its platform autonomously completes months of software development, raised $200M at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $232M+ (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [5d]
- OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (Sara Fischer/Axios) [5d]
- Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [5d]
- OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance" (Megan Morrone/Axios) [5d]
- OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model (OpenAI) [5d]
- Pennsylvania sues Character.AI, alleging that one of its characters posed as a psychiatrist, as the state seeks to prevent chatbots from impersonating doctors (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [5d]
- Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [5d]
- Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle litigation for companies like Airbnb, raised $100M led by Founders Fund at a $1.2B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (Liv McMahon/BBC) [5d]
- Intel stock jumps 12%+, hitting a new all-time high, on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting Intel's chipmaking services (Lola Murti/CNBC) [5d]
- Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financial sector, including for drafting pitch decks, reviewing financial statements, and escalating compliance cases (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [5d]
- The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary CDS from selling Americans' location data as part of a settlement over charges brought in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) [5d]
- ElevenLabs raised $550M+ in its Series D, up from a previously announced $500M, adding BlackRock, Nvidia, and others as investors; its ARR passed $500M in Q1 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) [5d]
- Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) [5d]
- Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times) [5d]
- Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) [5d]
- Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (Nikkei Asia) [5d]
- RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (Yogita Khatri/The Block) [5d]
- The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (Bloomberg) [5d]
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- I adored Mouse P.I. for Hire’s ‘engrossing rubberhose-style animation’ and Doom-inspired gameplay, but its performance on Nintendo Switch 2 just isn’t good enough [5d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #1060) [5d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #1563) [5d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #794) [5d]
- Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering [5d]
- 3D-printed Y-zipper turns from flexible to hard in less time than it takes to zip your fly [5d]
- How to watch The Other Bennet Sister from anywhere – it's *FREE* [5d]
- 'Electricity with zero emission' — Chinese scientists aim to transform “dirty” coal with a new fuel cell that doesn't burn anything and produces clean power well beyond the Carnot cycle limit [5d]
- 'Cheap air-to-air missile': Ukraine has turned a vintage 55-year-old Russian-designed Antonov An-28 twin-propeller aircraft into a versatile A-10 Warthog-type platform complete with Gatling-class gun, VR headsets to intercept Russian Shahed drones [5d]
- 'AI creates jobs': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang once again says workers have nothing to fear [5d]
- ‘I thought I was going mad’: Disney+ subscribers think the service removes Dolby Atmos from shows at certain times, even if you've paid for Premium —they think it's to reduce server stress at 'peak' times, but the streaming giant has yet to confirm [5d]
- Samsung showcases massive floating data center ship model that could house OpenAI's future ChatGPT as its Dallas-based partner claims 'speed to power is the new moat' and promises 1.5 GW of capacity within 36 months [5d]
- Federal regulator to ban all Chinese labs from vetting US-bound devices over national security concerns – major supply chain shakeup will affect 75 percent of devices sold in the US [5d]
- Argos expands its bank holiday sale with dozens of new deals — I've found the 22 best tech offers with up to 40% off [5d]
- Forget stealing our jobs — robots are now coming for the most human pastime: causing havoc on public transport [5d]
- 'Phishing campaigns continue to improve sophistication and refinement': Microsoft flags major 'sophisticated' phishing campaign targeting 35,000 users across 26 countries [5d]
- 5 Android 17 features that could be announced at Google's pre-I/O Android reveal — including Motion Assist and app locking [5d]
- I've been a Netflix subscriber for 25 years, and I can't decide if Clips is the best or worst thing to happen to the mobile app [5d]
- Fallout co-creator says players nowadays are 'handed an opinion from the online channel they’re watching' — 'They find someone they just like, and then that person’s opinion becomes their opinion' [5d]
- Canvas maker Instructure reveals data breach — confirms user personal information leaked [5d]
- Looks like Valve's Steam Machine might finally be on its way after a huge importing effort — and despite our fears, it might actually support full-fat 4K 120Hz and VRR in the end, making it a full PS5 and Xbox replacement [5d]
- This viral ereader has come out of nowhere, and bookworms can’t get enough of it — but it ‘could ring alarm bells’ for Amazon as it surpasses the Kindle Colorsoft on the retailer’s charts [5d]
- It's 2 for £30 on Disney 4K Blu-rays at Amazon right now — here are my top 9 picks including Star Wars and Marvel discs [5d]
- Experts warn Amazon's Simple Email Service is being abused to launch 'massive volume' of phishing attacks [5d]
- The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra falls to a new record-low price at Amazon — get $300 off 'the best Android phone ever' [5d]
- How to watch Arsenal vs Atletico Madrid: Free Streams, TV Schedule and Preview for Champions League semi-final 2nd leg [5d]
- Amazon’s Mother’s Day Sale is so good, I’m shopping it for myself — here's everything I want from Dyson, Kindle, Apple, and more [5d]
- Microsoft confirms why Windows 11 updates might be weird right now, and look like they're failing — but it's nothing to worry about [5d]
- Bose releases new 'Ultra' Dolby Atmos soundbar and wireless speaker range, with a serious subwoofer option — and this lineup has Sonos right in its crosshairs [5d]
- Activision quashes rumors that the next Call it Duty will launch on PS4 — 'It's not true' [5d]
- 'That is unacceptable in a professional development workflow': Microsoft acts after VS Code gives Copilot credit for work a human developer did [5d]
- First full Dutton Ranch trailer confirms Yellowstone John Dutton subplot in 'heartbreaking' new scenes — but that's not what we should be paying attention to [5d]
- Ubisoft teams up with Backbone to offer The Division Resurgence players exclusive in-game rewards — here's how you can claim yours [5d]
- NymVPN finally brings split tunneling to Linux, and Android users get a new ad blocker — the tools are in beta, and the provider wants to hear how they work for you [5d]
- The Samsung Galaxy Fit3 is 'simply brilliant value' — and the budget fitness tracker is now just £39 at Amazon [5d]
- WebCalendar made it easier for me to track my schedule [5d]
- How foundries are shaping the next era of enterprise AI [5d]
- Some Ubuntu services are still down following outages after DDoS attack [5d]
- Proton, Tor, Mullvad, ExpressVPN, and Mozilla among the 19 organizations urging the UK government 'not to undermine the open web' as Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill becomes law — a move that could 'infringe human rights' [5d]
- PrivadoVPN's new Terms of Service make its privacy-protecting move from Switzerland to Iceland official [5d]
- SteelSeries' new Arctis Nova Omni headset has finally displaced the Nova Pro Wireless as my favorite model from the brand [5d]
- ‘Without me, OpenAI wouldn’t exist,’ says Elon Musk as courtroom clash with Sam Altman turns personal — and exposes a deeper fight over who really built the company behind ChatGPT [5d]
- Amazon takes on FedEx and UPS by letting other companies use its global warehousing and delivery network [5d]
- It took 18 years, but we finally have the ultimate Lego Batman game — Legacy of the Dark Knight is creative, charming, and cohesive [5d]
- Take-Two CEO admits GTA 6 expectations are 'so high' it's 'terrifying' — 'I think here our goal is to deliver to consumers something that’s never been experienced before' [5d]
- Surfshark launches native VPN app for Amazon's new Vega OS Fire TV sticks [5d]
- 'How else are people going to learn to do the job': MIT AI expert warns against automating Gen Z entry-level jobs [5d]
- Beyond Paradise season 4 cast are 'totally game' for a BBC crime drama franchise crossover episode — now there's just one piece of the puzzle that's missing [5d]
- Despite Previous Integration Failure, Etsy Launches Its App in ChatGPT [5d]
- 4 Electric Toothbrush Mistakes You Should Avoid for a Whiter Smile [5d]
- Apple's iPhone 17 Is the Best-Selling Phone for the First Quarter of 2026 [5d]
- Proposed Class Action Suit Claims Faulty Roku, TCL Software Updates 'Bricked' TVs [5d]
- Reddit Is Making Some Mobile Web Readers Log In or Use the App Instead [5d]
- I Played the New Lego Batman, a Whimsical Game That Takes the Dark Knight Seriously [5d]
- OpenAI Could Make 30 Million Phones Over the Next 2 Years, Report Says [5d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 6, #1782 [5d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 6, #1060 [5d]
- Apple Looking to Samsung and Intel for Chips Amid Shortages, Report Says [5d]
- US Travelers Can Now Use T-Mobile's Satellite Service in Canada and New Zealand [5d]
- Even More Authors, Publishers Sue Meta Over Copyright in AI Training: What's Different Now [5d]
- I Tried Burger King's Mandalorian and Grogu Menu, and This Is Not the Way [5d]
- Best Portable Monitor for 2026 [5d]
- ChatGPT's Latest Model Will Supposedly Give Less Annoying Answers [5d]
- Google's Android Show Returns May 12 Ahead of I/O 2026 [5d]
- Champions League Soccer: Stream Arsenal vs. Atlético Madrid Live [5d]
- Dead as Disco Envisions Batman Arkham as a Rhythm Game, and It's Perfect [5d]
- Eight Sleep's New Pregnancy Mode Adjusts Your Bed Temperature So You Don't Have To [5d]
- Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar, Speaker Let You Control With Your Favorite Music App [5d]
- Michael Saylor's Strategy signals potential bitcoin sale to fund dividends obligations [5d]
- Trust in crypto remains biggest barrier to adoption, say Consensus Miami 2026 panelists [5d]
- The world's entire economy will be tokenized, says Consensys’ Joseph Lubin [5d]
- It's transparency, not tech alone, that drives crypto adoption, panelists tell Consensus Miami [5d]
- Different voices in product, policy and hiring change crypto outcomes, panelists tell Consensus Miami [5d]
- AI agents are breaking web economics, but Cloudflare says x402 can help [5d]
- Kraken eyes IPO as it partners with MoneyGram to bridge crypto-to-cash gap [5d]
- State Street says institutions want improved blockchain security in wake of recent DeFi attacks [5d]
- Crypto's 'barbell': speculation and stablecoin payments drive adoption, Tempo's Romero says [5d]
- Citi exec says fragmented crypto systems risk repeating old banking problems [5d]
- Overseas demand for U.S. equities is growing, says Robinhood's Johan Kerbrart [5d]
- Crypto ETFs go mainstream as traditional finance locks in [5d]
- Self-directed investors power bitcoin ETF launch despite Morgan Stanley’s scale [5d]
- Kelp claims that LayerZero approved the setup it blamed for $292 million bridge hack [5d]
- Strategy posts $12.54 billion Q1 loss on declining bitcoin price [5d]
- Drift outlines a recovery plan for users after $295 million DPRK-linked exploit [5d]
- Tokenization won't disrupt banking rails but improve them, Wall Street executives say [5d]
- Bitcoin extends gains to $81,500 as tokenization push lifts Bullish, Galaxy, Centrifuge [5d]
- Rep. Steven Horsford pitches PARITY Act as 'durable floor' for crypto tax at Consensus Miami [5d]
- Solana’s 'Alpenglow' upgrade could arrive next quarter, co-founder Yakovenko says [5d]
- Western Union’s Solana-based stablecoin could reshape its payment model, analyst says [5d]
- Figure targets Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in mortgage push, citing massive cost cuts for borrowers [5d]
- Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says Clarity better than chaos as Senate hits key moment [5d]
- Wall Street warns human-built markets can’t keep up with machine-speed trading [5d]
- Crypto's value is from being outside regulatory apparatus, says Arthur Hayes [5d]
- From bitcoin mining to the Hill: AIP’s new fellow brings hands-on crypto experience to D.C. [5d]
- Jito Labs launches self-custody trading tool as activity heats up on Solana [5d]
- Coinbase taps Centrifuge as preferred tokenization backbone, takes equity stake [5d]
- Crypto.com’s high-rolling head of marketing to leave after almost six years [5d]
- Consensus Miami Day 1: Sights and sounds [5d]
- CoinDesk 20 performance update: index jumps 1.3% as all constituents trade higher [5d]
- State Street and Galaxy launch tokenized fund to bring cash management onchain [5d]
- K Wave Media scraps massive bitcoin treasury plan to redirect $485 million to AI [5d]
- Bitcoin absorbed $200 million profit-taking at $80,000 in a bullish sign for BTC [5d]
- Standard Chartered expands further into crypto with stake in GSR at $1 billion valuation [5d]
- Andreessen Horowitz raises $2.2 billion in a new fund, saying crypto fundamentals are at an 'all-time high' [5d]
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