The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

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