The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors [2h]
• Healthy man goes camping—lands in ICU for 40 days with respiratory failure [2h]
• Amazon and Stellantis abandon project to create a digital “SmartCockpit” [3h]
• “Extraordinarily expensive”: Costs force Getty to pick its AI legal battles [4h]
• Trump admin tells SCOTUS: ISPs shouldn’t be forced to boot alleged pirates [4h]
• Samsung drops Android 16 beta for Galaxy S25 with more AI you probably don’t want [5h]
• Judge lets four more DOGE employees access US Treasury payment systems [6h]
• Google Photos turns 10, celebrates with new AI-infused photo editor [7h]
• It was probably always going to end this way for Amazon’s Wheel of Time show [7h]
• Threat of Meta breakup looms as FTC’s monopoly trial ends [8h]
• We now have a good idea about the makeup of Uranus’ atmosphere [10h]
• Elden Ring: Nightreign is an epic RPG squeezed into delicious bite-size capsules [10h]
• Ars Live: Four space journalists debate whether NASA is really going to Mars [11h]
• What I learned from a Bambu Labs A1 3D printer, part 2: Upgrades and mistakes [13h]
• SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight [15h]