The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Merriam-Webster crowns “slop” word of the year as AI content floods Internet [8d]
• Stranger Things S5 trailer teases Vol. 2 [8d]
• Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc [8d]
• Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business [8d]
• Microsoft takes down mod that recreated Halo 3 in Counter-Strike 2 [8d]
• Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die [8d]
• Filmmaker Rob Reiner, wife, killed in horrific home attack [9d]
• UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones [9d]
• Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data [9d]
• Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China [9d]
• Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy [9d]
• Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won [9d]