The Brutalist Report - tech
- Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI six months after Altman ouster [6h]
- Weight loss from Wegovy sustained for up to four years, trial shows [10h]
- “Fire and blood” come to Westeros in new House of the Dragon S2 trailer [11h]
- Sauron’s dark rise is front and center in The Rings of Power S2 teaser [11h]
- Downranking won’t stop Google’s deepfake porn problem, victims say [11h]
- 2023 temperatures were warmest we’ve seen for at least 2,000 years [13h]
- Android’s AI era includes eavesdropping on phone calls, warning you about scams [14h]
- Boeing is troubleshooting a small helium leak on the Starliner spacecraft [14h]
- AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says [14h]
- Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype [14h]
- Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options [15h]
- AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails [16h]
- 5,471-piece Lego Barad-Dûr set will turn its watchful Eye to us in June [16h]
- Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic [16h]
- Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away [19h]
- The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end [19h]
- Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome [2h]
- 2023 Temperatures Were Warmest We've Seen For At Least 2,000 Years [6h]
- Comcast To Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle [7h]
- Project Astra Is Google's 'Multimodal' Answer to the New ChatGPT [8h]
- Google Targets Filmmakers With Veo, Its New Generative AI Video Model [9h]
- 1 In 4 US Teens Say They Play Games On a VR Headset [9h]
- OpenAI's Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company [10h]
- VMware Giving Away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro Free For Personal Use [11h]
- Feds Probe Waymo Driverless Cars Hitting Parked Cars, Drifting Into Traffic [11h]
- Dublin To New York City Portal Temporarily Shut Down Due To Inappropriate Behavior [12h]
- AI in Gmail Will Sift Through Emails, Provide Search Summaries, Send Emails [13h]
- Unity's Marc Whitten Resigns Amid Runtime Fee Controversy [13h]
- Google's Invisible AI Watermark Will Help Identify Generative Text and Video [14h]
- The Walls Are Closing In On John Deere's Tractor Repair Monopoly [15h]
- Google Search Will Now Show AI-Generated Answers To Millions By Default [15h]
- Google is Experimenting With Running Chrome OS on Android [16h]
- Threat Actor Scraped Dell Support Tickets, Including Customer Phone Numbers [17h]
- Meta Will Shut Down Workplace, Its Business Chat Tool [17h]
- Game Dev Says Contract Barring 'Subjective Negative Reviews' Was a Mistake [18h]
- Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto [19h]
- AWS CEO To Step Down [20h]
- Ordered Back To the Office, Top Tech Talent Left Instead, Study Finds [20h]
- Internet Use Is Associated With Greater Wellbeing, Global Study Finds [23h]
- Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs [1h]
- Lydia, the French payments app with 8 million users, launches mobile banking app Sumeria [1h]
- Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico [2h]
- AWS confirms European ‘sovereign cloud’ to launch in Germany by 2025, plans €7.8B investment over 15 years [3h]
- Indian insurance startup Go Digit raises $141M from anchor investors ahead of IPO [4h]
- Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa [4h]
- Accion’s new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally [5h]
- Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program [6h]
- Looking Glass launches new 3D displays [9h]
- Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars [10h]
- Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out [10h]
- Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs [10h]
- Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard launches on May 19 [11h]
- Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google [12h]
- Reddit introduces new tools for ‘Ask Me Anything,’ its Q&A feature [13h]
- LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education [13h]
- Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube [14h]
- Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say [14h]
- Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote [14h]
- Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools [15h]
- Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more [15h]
- Google gets serious about AI-generated video at Google I/O 2024 [15h]
- Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024 [15h]
- Gemini comes to Gmail to summarize, draft emails, and more [15h]
- Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to the Google Maps platform [15h]
- Marvel confirms Daredevil: Born Again and Agatha release dates – and reveals when Ironheart will finally land on Disney Plus [31m]
- AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down [59m]
- Canon's flagship EOS R1 is finally official, and it will have never-before-seen power [1h]
- The Sony Xperia 1 VI has landed, with a big zoom and a high price [2h]
- Ayn's new gaming handheld looks like a PSP, and it might just fill the hole in your heart left by Sony's best portable [8h]
- Google Search is getting a massive upgrade – including letting you search with video [9h]
- Quordle today – hints and answers for Wednesday, May 15 (game #842) [10h]
- NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Wednesday, May 15 (game #73) [10h]
- Google I/O just showed me how to live the laziest life through AI [10h]
- Google might've just teased its new Smart Glass project but don't call it Google Glass [12h]
- The 7 biggest AI announcements from Google I/O 2024 – from Gemini to Project Astra [13h]
- No thanks Google, I don’t want an AI yoga bestie [13h]
- Google is 'reimagining' Android to be all-in on AI – and it looks truly impressive [14h]
- Google Workspace is getting a talkative tool to help you collaborate better – meet your new colleague, AI Teammate [14h]
- MacOS devices are being targeted with PyPI backdoor to sneak into corporate networks [14h]
- Amazon's top-selling budget headphones drop to a ridiculously cheap price of $24.95 [15h]
- Google reveals new video-generation AI tool, Veo, which it claims is the 'most capable' yet – and even Donald Glover loves it [15h]
- Prime Video is making a live-action Spider-Man Noir series starring Nic Cage – spinning off his Spider-Verse character [15h]
- Google I/O showcases new 'Ask Photos' tool, powered by AI – but it honestly scares me a little [15h]
- Google's Project Astra could supercharge the Pixel 9 – and help Google Glass make a comeback [15h]
- One of the largest tape vendors in the world announced shocking price increases out of the blue — Fujifilm blames more expensive raw material for much dearer LTO-7, 8, 9, giving the perfect excuse for storage startups to swoop in [16h]
- Millions of phishing emails sent through botnet to push LockBit ransomware [16h]
- Walmart's huge summer sale just went live: 15 deals I recommend from $14.99 [16h]
- Proton Mail fails activists, again—is it time to ditch the app for good? [17h]
- Proton Mail hands data to police again – is it still safe for activists? [17h]
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