The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA [50d]
• Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average [50d]
• Hints grow stronger that dark energy changes over time [50d]
• John Wick has a new target in latest Ballerina trailer [50d]
• HP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement [50d]
• Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control [50d]
• Apple and Google in the hot seat as European regulators ignore Trump warnings [50d]
• US tries to keep DOGE and Musk work secret in appeal of court-ordered discovery [50d]
• Plex ups its price for first time in a decade, changes remote-streaming access [51d]
• Trump fires both FTC Democrats in challenge to Supreme Court precedent [51d]
• Meager 8GB of RAM forces Pixel 9a to run “extra extra small” Gemini AI [51d]
• Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works [51d]
• Volvo is using Gaussian splatting in virtual worlds to make safer cars [51d]
• Saltwater contamination in freshwater systems is on the rise [51d]
• Google reveals Pixel 9a, with the largest battery ever in a Pixel [51d]
• Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria [51d]