The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Working on Economics with Fable 5 [3d]
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- U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative [3d]
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- Opus5/low can do CryptoNote base58 decoding toolless, in working memory alone [3d]
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- Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief [3d]
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- Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength [3d]
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- Chasa [3d]
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- Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support [3d]
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- Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java [3d]
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- App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours [3d]
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- Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering [3d]
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- Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it [3d]
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- Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% [3d]
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- ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests' [3d]
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- Assembly Hall of Shame [3d]
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- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 [3d]
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- The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5 [3d]
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- Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK [3d]
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- Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? [3d]
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- Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years [3d]
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- Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) [3d]
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- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities [3d]
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- The AI Billboards Are Killing SF [3d]
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- This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again [4d]
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- Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been [4d]
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- Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word [4d]
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- Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 [4d]
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- An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes [4d]
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- An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) [4d]
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- Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined [4d]
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- Möbius-Strip Crosswords [4d]
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- Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] [4d]
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- 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots [4d]
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- Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server [4d]
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- US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data [4d]
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- U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower [4d]
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- AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot [4d]
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- Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words [4d]
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- The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale [4d]
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- Stowaway – take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead [4d]
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- Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice [4d]
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- U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal [4d]
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- Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? [4d]
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- Immersion lithography saved Moore's Law (2023) [4d]
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- Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language [4d]
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- DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says [4d]
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- Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler [4d]
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- Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (Financial Times) [3d]
- The US OCC denies Dutch fintech Bunq's application for a national bank charter, citing the need for more clarity on its business plan to expand in the US (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools (Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms (Jasper Goodman/Politico) [3d]
- Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data (Arriana McLymore/Reuters) [3d]
- TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE (Sara Fischer/Axios) [3d]
- Sources: Cursor told staff Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out (Grace Kay/The Information) [3d]
- The US Treasury sanctions Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit, alleging it processed millions in crypto for IRGC and other Iran-linked groups (Reuters) [3d]
- Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [3d]
- Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups) [3d]
- Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue (The Information) [3d]
- Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [3d]
- OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it "cannot rule out" critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying launch (Axios) [3d]
- Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it private in an all-cash deal with an enterprise value of around $2.15B, expected to close by Q1 2027 (Brian Steinberg/Variety) [4d]
- Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr/DealStreetAsia) [4d]
- Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of staff this week, citing AI as a "major platform shift"; sources: 50-60 employees were cut, including its CTO (Nat Ives/Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related "fallbacks" by ~85% in testing across product surfaces (Anthropic) [4d]
- At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment (Black Hat on YouTube) [4d]
- Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.38B est., forecasts Q2 and FY 2027 bookings below est., reiterates GTA VI's November 19 launch date (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) [4d]
- Pentagon signs $500 million deal for unmanned counter-drone missile systems promising 'decisive advantage' [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1657) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1154) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #888) [3d]
- Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: 'Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite' — foreshadowing Silicon Valley's global domination [3d]
- I've rounded up the best Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 cases to keep your passport-shaped foldable safe from scrapes and drops [3d]
- Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? AI tweaker deploys Claude to unlock and change settings for good [3d]
- WhatsApp scam costs Hong Kong man $1.27 million after criminals used AI voice notes to impersonate his father — experts say secret codewords are the best way to stay safe [3d]
- 'I wasn’t driving. I had Autopilot on': Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is getting drivers speeding tickets, and owners aren’t happy [3d]
- Our top-rated business PC is a multitasking powerhouse — save $530 on the Dell Tower Plus with Core Ultra 7 [3d]
- Hivemind AI software carries out first on-water 'swarming test' in Taiwan mission [3d]
- We called the GMKtec K8 Plus an 'understated mini PC that delivers far more power than you'd expect for the price' — and now it's $130 off [3d]
- The next age of LLMs? Dev gets a small LLM running at 10 tokens a second locally on a $10 microcontroller [3d]
- The SanDisk Extreme 1TB is one of our favorite portable rugged SSDs ever — fast, sleek, and now with a $60 discount [3d]
- 4 new 4K Blu-rays from July 2026 to add to your collection [3d]
- Shock horror — AI-generated security patches fall short of actually solving all the problems they were meant to fix [3d]
- Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads [3d]
- I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device [3d]
- 'A quality, highly adjustable, and highly supportive chair that will last for years': FlexiSpot's C7 ergonomic office chair is our mid-range favorite, and it's 30% off [3d]
- Wondering why GTA 6 is a code in a box? Take-Two CEO says it’s because gaming is now ‘well over 90% digital’ [4d]
- The HP EliteBook X G2i is an AI-powered laptop that can keep up with your business needs [4d]
- How to watch Middlesbrough vs Wrexham: Free Streams + TV Channels for Carabao Cup 1st Round [4d]
- I tested Turtle Beach’s newest controller, and I can’t imagine using anything else for GTA 6 — it’s got an illuminated skyline and tropical vibes; what more could you want? [4d]
- 'The level of pre-orders is unprecedented' — Take-Two reportedly made $1.39 billion in sales during GTA 6's pre-order period [4d]
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 8? [4d]
- My whole family used the RunStar 4e Body Scale, and this affordable scale is great for weight — but let down by inaccurate body composition [4d]
- Redditor gets sick of waiting for Nvidia and makes a tool to protect RTX 5090 GPUs from melting their power cables [4d]
- The end of anonymous protest — How facial recognition puts democracy at risk [4d]
- 'Start experimenting and innovating again please': Samsung's spicy Reddit AMA covered foldables, health, and AI — and the company didn't shy away from responding to criticism [4d]
- New Mexico judge calls Meta a 'public nuisance' that's like a factory emitting 'noxious pollution' in record $567 million fine — and even Meta's own attorneys agree [4d]
- Top US hedge funds targeted by major vishing campaign — Blackstone, KKR and CME among those under fire [4d]
- I had no idea ChatGPT could do this with text — now I use it all the time [4d]
- This Russian VPN has been accused of breaching its no-log policy — here's what we know [4d]
- Poor data has become enterprise AI's weakest link [4d]
- This 'classic' decades-old SQL injection flaw could let hackers take over entire Windows servers, thanks to a nifty database trick [4d]
- It doesn't seem like Nintendo plans to drop cartridges anytime soon, as the Switch 2 maker reports 38.5% of its sales are physical [4d]
- How to watch Rugby's Greatest Rivalry: FREE streams, TV channels, schedule for New Zealand's 2026 tour of South Africa [4d]
- How to watch DHL Stormers vs New Zealand for FREE: Live streams and TV channels for Rugby's Greatest Rivalry tour opener [4d]
- TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #2, Friday, August 7 [4d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and more this weekend (August 7) [4d]
- NordVPN gives Linux users a major upgrade with automatic GUI app installation [4d]
- Exclusive: Turbo VPN releases emergency Windows update after TechRadar uncovers persistent IP leaks [4d]
- DDR5 RAM is still painfully expensive, but this 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 RAM deal offers savvy PC builders a smart way to upgrade for less [4d]
- ON1 Photo RAW (2026) review [4d]
- 'Move fast, but do it with trust built in': EY CIO tells us why the rapid pace of AI means trust is now a critical business imperative [4d]
- AI was supposed kill my company but we're thriving - here's why [4d]
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day in ScreenX is a total disappointment — I wish I'd paid out to see the new Marvel movie in 4DX 3D instead [4d]
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