The Brutalist Report - tech
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- More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, More [1d]
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- Bot Company allegedly trashing Airbnb rentals with their prototype robots [1d]
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- Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down [1d]
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- The Silent Critic [1d]
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- Why Gentoo? [1d]
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- GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits [1d]
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- I'm "Retiring" from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io [1d]
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- Protestware for Coding Agents [1d]
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- Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed? [1d]
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- US troops are reportedly being targeted using location data, Pentagon says [1d]
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- I Made a Million Dollar Product from My Dorm Room (2025) [1d]
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- Social Animus [1d]
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- Caio, a cleaner search engine for 500k+ tech jobs [1d]
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- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions [1d]
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- The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science [1d]
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- Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection [1d]
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- Announcing Rust 1.96 [1d]
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- Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' [1d]
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- Separate the Cord from the Device [1d]
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- Various LLM Smells [1d]
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- Google Hates You [1d]
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- Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows [1d]
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- About LLMs at Zig Days [1d]
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- The Lone Lisp Heap [1d]
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- Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation [1d]
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- Hold on for Dear Life [1d]
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- Bitburner, programming-based incremental game [1d]
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- I hated writing–until I learned there's a science to it(2024) [1d]
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- Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock [1d]
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- Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags [1d]
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- Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code [1d]
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- Claude Opus 4.8 [1d]
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- Tuning LLVM's SLP Vectorizer Cost Model [1d]
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- Trivial Pursuits [1d]
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- Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime [1d]
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- ATLAS: Autoformalized Textbook Library At Scale [1d]
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- ICE has spent over $25M on iris scanners in no-bid contracts [1d]
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- Zendesk forced a customer from 2016 to pay 4X more, they rebuilt it in 48 hours [2d]
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- W3C Leadership Transition [2d]
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- The Permanent Upper Crow [2d]
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- Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents [2d]
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- Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct [2d]
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- New York Passes Tax on the Ultra-Wealthy [2d]
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- Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs [2d]
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- AGI timelines shift with whichever lab is dominant [2d]
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- EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products [2d]
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- Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM [2d]
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- Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue [2d]
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- Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims [2d]
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- Durable Execution the Hard Way [2d]
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- Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a $22M Series B, following a $15M Series A in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease (Bloomberg) [1d]
- California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press) [1d]
- Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $765M, vs. $752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 7%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [1d]
- Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) [1d]
- Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (Axios) [1d]
- Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) [1d]
- Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 15%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [1d]
- Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Snowflake stock closed up 36% on Thursday, its best day ever, after the company boosted guidance and announced an AI compute deal with Amazon (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [1d]
- Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [1d]
- Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations (Claude) [1d]
- The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Anthropic raised $65B at a $900B valuation, up from $380B three months ago and ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730B, says its revenue run rate crossed $47B (New York Times) [1d]
- Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios) [1d]
- Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims", at the same price as 4.7 (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is "a 180 day lease with 90 day notice"; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic "agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029" (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding (Casey Newton/Platformer) [2d]
- IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029 (Reuters) [2d]
- Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [2d]
- YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an "Auto speed" setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [2d]
- Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed (Todd Spangler/Variety) [2d]
- Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how Replit developers can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Source: Groq is raising ~$650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team depart (Dan Primack/Axios) [2d]
- Israel-based web development company Wix is cutting 20% of its workforce, citing the "fast evolution of AI capabilities" and currency exchange rate difficulties (CJ Haddad/CNBC) [2d]
- Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 (Sean Hollister/The Verge) [2d]
- Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting at $300 and shipping in 2026, to compete with the MacBook Neo (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [2d]
- Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing custom silicon chips gives it an advantage in local AI, using a distilled Gemini model (Aaron Tilley/The Information) [2d]
- Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 (Brian Stelter/CNN) [2d]
- YouTube adds a "custom feed" to its home page, letting users enter a prompt to create a constantly refreshed feed, available to signed-in users in the US (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) [2d]
- Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, including a new UI, a chatbot-style app, and other major iOS 27 changes, ahead of WWDC on June 8 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Oura unveils the Oura Ring 5, with a 40% smaller form factor, improved sensing, and repositioned LEDs, on sale from June 4 for $399, up from the Ring 4's $349 (Bloomberg) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, May 29 (game #817) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, May 29 (game #1586) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, May 29 (game #1083) [1d]
- Quote of the day by AMD CEO Lisa Su: "The age of traditional computing is dead" — marking the start of the heterogeneous computing era [1d]
- Need a photo-ready face in time for wedding season? I trawled the internet for the best reviewed beauty gadgets — here's what I found [1d]
- 'Lift is aerodynamic, not buoyancy' — This new cargo drone uses an inflatable wing instead of a traditional rigid frame, and it could change how wars are fought [1d]
- Security teams can't keep up with how fast AI is cracking cloud security [1d]
- The end of Moore's Law? Huawei unveils new chip architecture, which it hopes can help it cut the gap on Nvidia and TSMC [1d]
- Websites are using this FROST-y new technique to spy on users by snooping on their SSD activity [1d]
- Pentagon awards $9.7 billion in contracts to Dell, Microsoft to provide software, stop license sprawl, and cut costs across military and intelligence networks [1d]
- Holy moly! Valve just hiked the Steam Deck OLED price by almost 50% — but I have two fan-favorite handhelds that are still cheap and you should get instead [1d]
- I asked ChatGPT to build me a realistic weekly workout for a 54-year-old body — and I actually kept doing it [1d]
- The LG C6 OLED TV is my dark horse pick for a World Cup winner — I said it ‘sets the bar for TVs in 2026’ in my review — and it’s already been discounted [1d]
- Lack of AI governance could force 40% of enterprises to roll back autonomous AI agents by 2027 [1d]
- Xreal is making budget XR smart glasses — and they give my favorite cheap specs a serious run for their money [1d]
- Take-Two CEO seems to take shot at MindsEye studio, says 'the folks at Rockstar seem to be able to make these massive hits' while former Rockstar employees 'haven’t been able to do it' [1d]
- The FBI warns Microsoft 365 services are being bombarded with new phishing emails — here are 3 steps you can take to stay safe [1d]
- I started asking ChatGPT one extra question — and its answers suddenly became far more useful [2d]
- Polymarket blocks VPNs and tightens identity verification as over 30 countries ban the betting platform [2d]
- Modern Warfare 4 director on return of 'Mil-Sim' operators and upcoming Call of Duty's 'gritty' tone — 'We want those characters to feel set in our world' [2d]
- Captain Price returns in Modern Warfare 4 for a Call of Duty campaign that 'feels both blockbuster in scale and grounded in authenticity' [2d]
- Modern Warfare 4 announcement confirms October release, Nintendo Switch 2 port, and that new Call of Duty is skipping last gen [2d]
- HBO Max quietly drops first look footage for The Gilded Age season 4 — but I'm convinced that the George and Bertha reunion scene isn't what it seems [2d]
- How to watch 2026 Premier League Darts Finals Night: Free Streams & Schedule [2d]
- ‘If you’re buying the same game every year, that’s not healthy’ — Modern Warfare 4 director on huge mechanical changes shaping the next Call of Duty [2d]
- ‘Nothing in its class comes close’: the Xiaomi 17T Pro is being called ‘the telephoto master’, but how does its 5x zoom perform in reality? I took over 500 photos to find out [2d]
- Canada vows to amend Bill C-22's encryption and metadata rules amid massive tech backlash [2d]
- A human-first approach to AI in retail [2d]
- The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past's official artwork appears to feature a sword CD Projekt Red teased not so long ago [2d]
- Get £350 off the eufyMake E1 UV Printer + £500 in free gifts with these early access deals [2d]
- GCHQ debuts world-first AI cyber defense system to detect threats across critical national infrastructure, airlines, telecoms, and major companies [2d]
- Hackers abuse UltraVNC, Splashtop, and ScreenConnect to hijack business PCs [2d]
- 'These reports are groundless': A report claimed LG wanted to exit the TV business and offload it to a Chinese brand, following similar moves from Sony and Panasonic — but LG says the story is 'entirely speculative and misleading' [2d]
- Meta's subscription plans are the tip of a terrible pay-to-engage iceberg and may be the beginning of the end for social media as we know it [2d]
- The latest Sonos app update just added a new option that might be the magic bullet you need to fix problems on 'more complex home network setups' — though consider it a last resort [2d]
- LincPlus LincStation E1 NAS review: An impressive 2+2 bay NAS — but the LincOS still feels like it's in development [2d]
- The 60 best Amazon Basics home office supplies — I found everything you need for running a small business or just working from home [2d]
- My favorite camera from last year is on sale for a record-low price — the Nikon Z5 II is easily one of the best value full-frame cameras [2d]
- Meta cloud computing business ‘definitely on the table’, Mark Zuckerberg says – excess data center capacity could be used to enter the market [2d]
- 'There's nothing else like it on the water' — the HoverAir Aqua drone is practically a must-buy for solo watersports fans [2d]
- ‘One of the best in its price range’ — the Xiaomi 17T Pro improves on an already excellent sub-flagship formula [2d]
- With Destiny 2 dead, Bungie is trying to save Marathon's dwindling player count with a free-to-play trial [2d]
- All my favorite DualSense colorways and special editions are discounted right now in Sony's Days of Play Sale [2d]
- New Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide dummy unit shows off its 'insane thinness', and tells us just how worried Samsung is about the iPhone Fold [2d]
- 'Your bank should do the hard work for you': Monzo debuts possibly the best UK SIM deal just in time for summer — here’s how to join the waitlist [2d]
- Hackers are turning up to victim's work dressed as IT support to install malware in-person, FBI warns [2d]
- Widow's Bay star says he doesn't know if the buzzworthy Apple TV show will get a season 2 — but he has spoken to the comedy horror series' creator about 'what its future might be' [2d]
- Oura just unveiled ‘the world’s smallest smart ring’, the Oura Ring 5 — and members are going to love these 7 upgrades [2d]
- Some Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Getting the Trash-Bag Treatment [1d]
- iOS 26.6 Public Beta Available, Adds Small Change to Blocked Contacts [1d]
- SpaceX's Starship V3 Can't Fly Again Until a 'Mishap' Is Addressed, Says FAA [1d]
- 6 Continuous Glucose Monitors That Are Doctor-Recommended [1d]
- Apple WWDC 2026: What We Expect From This Year's Keynote and How to Watch [1d]
- Apple's iOS 27 Could Be Siri's Biggest AI Reinvention Yet [1d]
- Anthropic Says a Mythos-Class AI Model Will Be Available Soon [1d]
- What's New on HBO Max in June? These Are the 6 Shows and Movies I'll Be Watching [1d]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 29, #613 [1d]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 29, #1083 [1d]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 29, #817 [1d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 29, #1805 [1d]
- YouTube's AI Is Ready to Customize Your Scrolling [1d]
- This 10-Minute Cooking Method Takes the Stink Out of Salmon [1d]
- With the 40% Smaller Ring 5, Oura Succeeds Where Smartwatch Makers Have Failed [1d]
- 8 Air Fryer Tips I Wish I'd Learned Sooner [1d]
- Registered Dietitians Swear by These 5 Air Fryer Recipes for Healthy Weeknight Meals [1d]
- I Tested 20 Air Fryers, This Nontoxic Model Is Still the One I Recommend Most [1d]
- Coming Soon to a Roblox Game Near You: Strange AI-Generated Machines and Creatures [2d]
- E-Bike Fires Are Down, but Riders Still Make One Dangerous Mistake [2d]
- Inside Waymo's New Ojai Robotaxi: More Space, Sliding Doors and Smarter AI [2d]
- Sennheiser Momentum 5 Wireless Headphones Review: One Big Crucial Upgrade [2d]
- There's a Lot I Like About Xiaomi's Stylish and Affordable 17T Pro [2d]
- Your iPhone Has an Ad-Tracking Kill Switch. Here's Where to Find It [2d]
- Google's AI Health Guidance Is What I've Been Looking for, but I Miss the Fitbit App [2d]
- Hands-On With HoverAir Aqua, a Drone That Isn't Afraid of the Water [2d]
- I Hope Intel's Arc G3 Chips for Windows Gaming Handhelds Deliver on Performance and Battery Life [2d]
- Qualcomm's New Snapdragon C Processors Herald an Old Spin on Cheap Laptops [2d]
- You Won't Believe the Tech Disney Used to Update These Rides [2d]
- The Oura Ring 5 Looks Like It Went on Ozempic, and Now It Tracks That Too [2d]
- There's a Heck of a Camera Inside This Colorfully Designed Phone [2d]
- Imagineers Share Secrets of Disney's New Ride Technology video [2d]
- Oura Ring Is Rolling Out New Health-Tracking Features: When to Unlock Them [2d]
- Best Outdoor String Lights of 2026: Brighten Your Patio or Backyard With Our Top Picks [2d]
- Best Windows Antivirus 2026: Keep Your Devices Safe With These Anti-Malware Tools [2d]
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