The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Report: Apple changes film strategy, will rarely do wide theatrical releases [171d]
• iFixit’s iPhone 16 teardown finds a greatly improved battery removal process [171d]
• Google and Meta update their AI models amid the rise of “AlphaChip” [171d]
• Black hole jet appears to boost rate of nova explosions [171d]
• More unidentified illnesses linked to unexplained bird flu case in Missouri [171d]
• Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead [171d]
• “Not a good look”: Google’s ad tech monopoly defense widely criticized [171d]
• Study: Cats in little crocheted hats shed light on feline chronic pain [171d]
• Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext [171d]
• Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday [171d]
• AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs [172d]
• Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” [172d]
• Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch [172d]
• Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it [172d]
• Tesla workers in Germany complain about home visits from their bosses [172d]
• Indicted NYC mayor to FBI: I, uh, forgot my phone’s passcode [172d]
• IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties [172d]
• NASA confirms space station cracking a “highest” risk and consequence problem [172d]
• Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails [172d]
• Flaw in Kia’s web portal let researchers track, hack cars [172d]
• Rocket Report: SpaceX salvages Starship wreckage; pessimism for Virgin Galactic [172d]