The Brutalist Report - tech
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- No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore [5d]
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- Literary Sins [5d]
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- Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night [5d]
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- The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing [5d]
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- Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose [5d]
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- Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X [5d]
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- Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent [5d]
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- OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record [5d]
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- Cross-Compilation with Wails [5d]
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- I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux [5d]
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- Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery [5d]
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- The Job Board Is Lying to You [5d]
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- How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp [5d]
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- Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 [5d]
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- Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog [6d]
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- Zed DeltaDB [6d]
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- What happens if you put work into the second dimension? [6d]
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- Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage [6d]
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- Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show [6d]
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- Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content [6d]
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- Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models [6d]
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- Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems [6d]
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- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence [6d]
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- COLDCARD's Random Numbers Weren't [6d]
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- Antigravity 2.0 [6d]
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- Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls [6d]
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- Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure [6d]
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- AI is a bubble, just like dot-com [6d]
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- I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words [6d]
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- Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs [6d]
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- Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects [6d]
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- Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod [6d]
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- Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy [6d]
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- Hollywood and Shanghai Cinema in the 1930s [pdf] [6d]
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- Stop Sending Me Your Errors [6d]
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- Something is changing in the unit economics of software [6d]
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- Discovery Loop [6d]
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- Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges [6d]
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- Jeff Dean Leaving Google [6d]
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- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down [6d]
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- The next chapter of our AI momentum [6d]
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- Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet [6d]
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- Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way [6d]
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- NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Enables Major Discovery of a Hidden Solar Process [6d]
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- Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up [6d]
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- Monitors for Work [6d]
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- The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life [6d]
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- The Valley of Webhooks [6d]
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- Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search [6d]
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- Cloudflare OS [6d]
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- Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices [6d]
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- Where was Mythos when WordPress fell? [6d]
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- Citigroup, Idaho, and Build-a-Bear Launched a Coordinated Attack on Me [6d]
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- How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] [6d]
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- Qwen 3.0 Image Pro [6d]
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- Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits [6d]
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- Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 [6d]
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- The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You [6d]
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- Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins [6d]
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- People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying [6d]
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- Crickets as Pets [6d]
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- Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness [6d]
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- Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words [6d]
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- Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet [6d]
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- Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field [6d]
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- Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck [6d]
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- TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas [6d]
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- The Entropy of a Markov Chain [6d]
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- Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work [6d]
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- Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else [6d]
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- OpenAI settles claims of discrimination against US workers for $3.2M [6d]
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- Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have [6d]
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- Building an Advanced Agentic Harness [6d]
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- A Sick People [6d]
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- The Architecture of Israel's Genocide in Gaza [6d]
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- Painting with Gaussians [6d]
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- Faster Than Ninja [6d]
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- Universities would prefer no AI [6d]
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- Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy [6d]
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- KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs [6d]
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- Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment [6d]
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- 'I want to rejoin the EU Brexit has been a disaster' – Andy Burnham [6d]
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- Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon [6d]
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- Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport [6d]
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- Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC [6d]
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- Iowa asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed [6d]
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- TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In [6d]
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- Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack [6d]
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- The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air [6d]
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- Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record) [5d]
- Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) [5d]
- Figma reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $370.1M, vs. $351.6M est., and lifts annual revenue forecast but keeps profit outlook intact; FIG drops 15%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters) [5d]
- Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [5d]
- Sandisk reports Q4 revenue up 372% YoY to $8.97B, vs. $8.48B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; SNDK drops 5%+ after hours (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch) [5d]
- Duolingo reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $298.5M, paid subscribers up 17% to 12.7M, below est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; DUOL drops 11%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters) [5d]
- DoorDash reports Q2 marketplace gross order value up 36% YoY to $33.08B, vs. $32.08B est., and forecasts Q3 marketplace GOV and adjusted EBITDA above estimates (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters) [5d]
- Binance affiliates are suing RedotPay's founders for allegedly diverting 470K+ users to a competing product in a "fraudulent scheme", claiming $472.8M in losses (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [5d]
- Nikita Bier says he will step back from leading product for X and continue as an adviser (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier) [5d]
- eBay reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $3.13B, vs. $3.02B est., GMV up 15% to $22.4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Reuters) [5d]
- Etsy says it will cut ~220 employees, or ~12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, and reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $668.3M, vs. $649.1M est. (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [5d]
- Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 "contributor" tier priced at $0.10/1M input and $0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training (Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [5d]
- Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (Business Insider) [6d]
- Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses due to issues in Apple's WebKit browser engine, also affecting OnionBrowser, a Tor browser for iOS (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [6d]
- Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (Jay Peters/The Verge) [6d]
- Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [6d]
- Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis's responsibilities (Bloomberg) [6d]
- Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (Cade Metz/New York Times) [6d]
- Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (Steven Levy/Wired) [6d]
- Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and chief scientist for Alphabet (Ina Fried/Axios) [6d]
- Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to "build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture" (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider) [6d]
- Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, launching its commercial operations after offering free rides since last year (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) [6d]
- Faye, which offers travel insurance services and uses AI to help resolve claims, raised a $50M Series C led by Madrona, taking its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios) [6d]
- Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper (New York Times) [6d]
- Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at an all-hands last month that the company will not use model distillation to accelerate capabilities (The Information) [6d]
- How Pringles maker Kellanova is using AI and a partnership with Siemens to improve production of the chip in Europe, including making digital twins of its dough (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a "multi-chip approach" (Tom Carter/Business Insider) [6d]
- Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (Business Insider) [6d]
- FanDuel parent Flutter says CEO Peter Jackson is stepping down, replaced by President Dan Taylor, and reports a lower profit outlook as its US business falters (Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rejects Google's bid to block a class action alleging it overcharged businesses for search ads and abused its dominance (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant remains on connected cars (Abner Li/9to5Google) [6d]
- Forget Sidecar, someone just got the real macOS working on an iPad — and it proves it’d be a terrible idea [5d]
- I tested Turtle Beach’s massive mechanical gaming keyboard, and it has the lowest key profile I’ve ever seen — but there’s another feature that steals the show [5d]
- FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto — and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country [5d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, August 6 (game #1655) [5d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, August 6 (game #1152) [5d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, August 6 (game #886) [5d]
- 'It's not our job to make the audience comfortable': Gugu Mbatha-Raw on why new supernatural Sky TV thriller Possession will make colonial history 'accessible' — not more palatable [5d]
- Could Japan be the next drone giant? Prime Minister looks to push domestic production to reduce reliance on China [5d]
- Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Lucky: 'There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor' [5d]
- Disney+ could soon get a free tier — and it’s about much more than streaming [5d]
- Ukraine's next weapon against Russian drones is this slightly odd tiny robot which fires nets into the air in all directions [5d]
- Disney's latest TikTok deal shows it's betting on real creators instead of AI-generated videos [5d]
- South Korean military signs deal to turn flying taxis into troop transports — and the US Air Force could be next in line [5d]
- Elon Musk: 'At some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world's internet,' but that promise hinges on launching thousands more next-gen satellites and the massive Starship working as promised [5d]
- Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems - tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected [6d]
- Are your Android apps secretly sharing your location with advertisers? Some developers are accidentally leaving on this critical data-invading setting when using third-party SDKs [6d]
- ‘Our corrupt, AI-addicted President cannot be allowed to sacrifice our federal lands’: A bill to permanently ban AI data centers from federal lands has been introduced to Congress [6d]
- Samsung’s cheap Fitbit Air rival just leaked again, but we still have tons of unanswered questions [6d]
- ‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse — so I ran my own comparison against ChatGPT [6d]
- Private Internet Access just more than doubled its streaming VPN server network [6d]
- In a rare win for PC builders, Corsair's 32GB Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 memory gets a big discount [6d]
- Hackers use fake Adobe and Zoom updates to load malware onto victim devices — here's what to look out for [6d]
- Save $220 on Dell's 16-inch 2K touchscreen laptop — perfect for business and the back-to-school season [6d]
- One.com just rebuilt its website builder around conversational AI – and it can modernize your old website in an instant [6d]
- Experts flag Bank of America phishing scam that hands your device over to hackers [6d]
- 'It is not a form of advertising': BMW defends Spider-Man pop-up ads that have infuriated customers [6d]
- Secretlab Titan Evo owners can now freshen up their gaming chair with three new Pokémon Pixel Art skins inspired by Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise [6d]
- VPN deal of the week: 97% of TechRadar readers would rather pay a flat fee than face price rises — here's the VPN that does that best [6d]
- Oh, great, GPU prices could climb again — here's my expert advice on why you should buy now (and which graphics card to get) [6d]
- TP-Link router owners update now — 15 flaws patched to stop hackers hijacking your devices [6d]
- Are we vibe coding our way to a new legacy crisis? [6d]
- 15 best back-to-school bargains in the Amazon UK tech sale — up to 60% off laptops, appliances, software, and more [6d]
- 'Acoustically speaking, we are developing the sound of all future PlayStation audio products' — Audeze marketing director teases what's next for its Sony collaboration, including new audio hardware that is in 'various stages of development' [6d]
- 'The largest in history:' Russia blocks over 20 popular VPNs in major internet crackdown [6d]
- Microsoft 365 users hit by phishing scheme posing as RingCentral emails [6d]
- Lavazza's A Modo Mio Jolie Evo is the tiniest coffee machine I've ever tested, and brews a delicious espresso — but there's one sustainability catch you should know about [6d]
- Is the Google Pixel 11 your next phone? Here are all the latest leaks rated, from higher prices to its new HiLight feature [6d]
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