The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history” [452d]
• US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says [452d]
• Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents [452d]
• Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model [452d]
• Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids [452d]
• Incan numerical recordkeeping system may have been widely used [452d]
• Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own [452d]
• Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere [452d]
• Apple Watch gets reformulated, non-patent-infringing blood oxygen monitoring [452d]
• Upcoming DeepSeek AI model failed to train using Huawei’s chips [452d]
• Sam Altman finally stood up to Elon Musk after years of X trolling [452d]
• Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches [453d]