The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI [6d]
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- IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay [6d]
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- Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication [6d]
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- FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it [6d]
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- libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months [6d]
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- Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust [6d]
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- Western Sahara [6d]
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- We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars [6d]
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- Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage [6d]
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- DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) [6d]
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- AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL [6d]
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- Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses [6d]
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- Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] [6d]
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- Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet [6d]
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- Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models [6d]
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- Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc [6d]
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- I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel [6d]
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- Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) [6d]
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- Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short [6d]
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- Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster [7d]
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- Nearest Pint [7d]
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- Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone [7d]
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- Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts [7d]
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- The Law of Jante (2015) [7d]
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- Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died [7d]
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- LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models [7d]
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- Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research [7d]
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- Waymo – Dallas Open to All [7d]
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- Security Is Hard, Y'all [7d]
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- The Golden Age of British Ice Cream [7d]
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- The Sound of Inevitability [7d]
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- Blackmail Fail (2013) [7d]
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- Why some people mow a lawn better than others [7d]
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- Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt [7d]
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- The Judgment Reservoir [7d]
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- Haters [7d]
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- AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where [7d]
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- Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game [7d]
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- The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert [7d]
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- Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries [7d]
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- America's 'weird' and 'unwise' intervention in the Japanese yen [7d]
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- What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? [7d]
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- Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields [7d]
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- Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks [7d]
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- The Warp Agent CLI [7d]
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- All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen [7d]
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- Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead [7d]
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- Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform [7d]
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- The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story [7d]
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- Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation [7d]
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- Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years [7d]
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- Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons [7d]
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- Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI [7d]
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- MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt [7d]
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- When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation [7d]
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- Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off [7d]
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- The Dynamics of the Egg [7d]
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- The AI Demand Bubble [7d]
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- Perspec 1.0 [7d]
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- Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI [7d]
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- Building Community Out of Strangers [7d]
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- Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones [7d]
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- Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees [7d]
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- Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed [7d]
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- Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding [7d]
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- FFmpeg 9.0 [7d]
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- Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex [7d]
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- How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems [7d]
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- From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree [7d]
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- It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism [7d]
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- FFmpeg 9.0 Released [7d]
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- Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 [7d]
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- How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 [7d]
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- We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native. [7d]
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- Protopia [7d]
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- Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc [7d]
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- Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer [7d]
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- OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations (Wired) [6d]
- Coupang reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.9B and an operating loss of $556M, vs. $361M est., due to a $409M data breach fine; CPNG drops 7%+ after hours (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [6d]
- SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company aims to build out ground-based infrastructure to complement its satellite network for "a true mobile service" (Reuters) [6d]
- An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Match reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $853M, vs. $856.6M est., 13.3M paying users, vs. 13.4M est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 8%+ after hours (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [6d]
- The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios) [6d]
- Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks (Maria Curi/Axios) [6d]
- SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (Nathan Bomey/Axios) [6d]
- Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.15B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, forecasts Q3 revenue in line with estimates; PINS drops 8%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [6d]
- A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [6d]
- AMD reports Q2 revenue up 50% YoY to $11.5B, vs. $11.3B est., Data Center revenue up 107%, forecasts Q3 revenue below some estimates; AMD drops 7%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg) [6d]
- EA says its $55B acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the company private; the deal includes $20B in debt financing (Jay Peters/The Verge) [6d]
- Samsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [6d]
- SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and an operating loss of $1.26B from its AI business, compared with a $2.39B estimate (Bloomberg) [6d]
- Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News) [7d]
- Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted "illegal porn in a public chat" to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into "overreacting" (Emma Roth/The Verge) [7d]
- Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog) [7d]
- Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (Maria Curi/Axios) [7d]
- Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) [7d]
- Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters) [7d]
- Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) [7d]
- Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (Reuters) [7d]
- The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas (Jimmy Jenkins/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, compromised 1,300+ npm packages, including Keyv and Cacheable, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) [7d]
- Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) [7d]
- Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA) [7d]
- Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised a $30M Series B led by Lachy Groom as it expands beyond farming into trucking, construction, and real estate (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) [7d]
- New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it uses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers (Reuters) [7d]
- A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (Joseph Cotterill/Financial Times) [7d]
- Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) [7d]
- Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (Joe Wilkins/Futurism) [7d]
- Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (Akash Sriram/Reuters) [7d]
- HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [7d]
- Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025 (Todd Gillespie/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years (Bloomberg) [7d]
- Watch out — Microsoft login pages are being abused as hackers try and lure in unlucky victims, here's what to look out for [6d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #1151) [6d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #885) [6d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #1654) [6d]
- How to watch every Spider-Man movie for *FREE* – stream all 10 feature films from anywhere [6d]
- Cybercrime is costing the world trillions every year - new report says victims lose an average of nearly $10,000 in every hit [6d]
- Steam survey shows GPUs with 16GB are now the most popular graphics cards — and that really doesn't bode well for gamers' wallets [6d]
- 'Tools don't have independent values — their values are human values': Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI [6d]
- Beelink EQi Wildcat Lake review: Ultra-fast networking makes this mini PC a great office machine [6d]
- SpaceX rocket set to crash into the moon at seven times the speed of sound — but the 5,400 mph impact is entirely expected, and might even prove useful for NASA [6d]
- CMF's first clip-style open earbuds are here with a tempting price tag and, thankfully, none of Nothing's flagship surveillance tech [6d]
- Whoop joins fellow premium screenless wearable company Oura in partnering with the Natural Cycles women's health tracking app [6d]
- Budget Meta Ray-Ban alternatives are selling out in stores — but please don’t buy them [6d]
- Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks [7d]
- ‘A football playground built for you and your friends’: The Grounds in FC 27 is EA’s answer to NBA 2K’s The City — and it could be just what the franchise needs [7d]
- Fanxiang PS2000W review: A solid portable SSD that's another victim of the rising memory prices [7d]
- OpenAI vs Apple text messages reveal something about Apple, but probably not what you’re thinking [7d]
- New malware disguised as popular Roblox cheat tool could give hackers full control of your PC — including the webcam [7d]
- It's official - more IT work is now off-prem than ever before, and it's sucking up a whole load of power [7d]
- I tried to use ChatGPT to create fake evidence — and I came away more worried than I expected [7d]
- Is Windows 11 spying on you via a new background process? No, it isn't, but the controversy around this clearly shows Microsoft must do better with privacy [7d]
- Best 3D printer deals 2026 — big savings on Bambu, Elegoo, Anycubic and Creality [7d]
- I stopped looking for the perfect meditation app and built my own using AI — and it was done in under 5 minutes [7d]
- Samsung's next-gen HDR10+ Advanced is launching on Prime Video this month — surprisingly beating Dolby Vision 2 to the punch, though with some huge unanswered questions remaining [7d]
- The 78.4 kWh Base Core battery can keep your home running during an outage, installs in under an hour, and gives back to the grid — as home battery installations reach a record high [7d]
- 'A new era of workplace sabotage': Employees really aren't happy with being forced back to the office - and many are starting to fight back [7d]
- How to watch Ted Lasso season 4 online – stream the sports comedy's revival from anywhere [7d]
- ‘77% expect domain importance to increase’: Name.com partners with Lovable and others to embed domain access [7d]
- Massive $300 price drop on the Asus Zenbook 14 2K OLED touchscreen laptop is a brilliant laptop deal for back-to-school students and business pros [7d]
- This transparent CD player puts the inner workings on full display like a work of art — it's the perfect showpiece for physical media fans [7d]
- 'Handles heavy office work without complaint': Geekom's GeekBook M16 Core Ultra 9 business laptop is now under $800 with this discount code [7d]
- Amnezia VPN now supports human rights defenders with free premium VPN subscriptions [7d]
- BenQ PD2770U review: A self-calibrating 4K monitor that might just get creatives to look away from the Apple Studio display [7d]
- It's not too late to save up to 50% off Keeper plans — secure your passwords and company security with big discounts on Personal and Business plans [7d]
- Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 review: A portable business-driven shell that's a workstation-grade beast under the hood [7d]
- Experts reveal Google Password Manager can be hijacked to let hackers steal passkeys and gain access to all your secrets [7d]
- Private Internet Access now lets you ditch Google as it brings its VPN app to F-Droid [7d]
- The vSphere 9 decision: migrate, modernize or maximize with purpose [7d]
- Philips Hue may be bringing its best ever lightstrip to the back of your TV —but we're primed for a painful price [7d]
- 'Striking the right balance starts with recognising that every user has different expectations of their browser': Mozilla's head of Firefox tells us why the browser is becoming one of the most important layers of the AI era [7d]
- I've found 7 of the best Sony headphones and earbuds on sale right now at Amazon — deals from $23 [7d]
- AI monocultures: the code review problem nobody's talking about [7d]
- AdGuard VPN launches standalone Meta Quest app for system-wide VR protection [7d]
- I spent two weeks with the Samsung Galaxy S26, and it's a stellar phone with a few annoying compromises [7d]
- Travelers beware — Microsoft experts warn hotel Wi-Fi can be hijacked to infect your devices with dangerous malware [7d]
- GTA 6 fans waiting for Trailer 3 are convinced they've spotted an easter egg in GTA Online referencing the game's map [7d]
- Prime Video's God of War series might have found its new Kratos — and I think he would be the perfect choice to play him [7d]
- DJI unveils the Mic Mini 2S — here are 5 upgrades you can expect over the regular Mic Mini 2 [7d]
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