The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts [142d]
• Shady drugmaker used code words to sell knockoff weight-loss drug: lawsuit [142d]
• Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping [142d]
• Meet the winners of Nikon’s 2024 photomicrography contest [142d]
• Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor [142d]
• Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked [142d]
• FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking. [142d]
• Reading Lord of the Rings aloud: Yes, I sang all the songs [142d]
• Qualcomm brings laptop-class CPU cores to phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite [142d]
• Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery [142d]
• Meta Quest 3S is a disappointing half-step to Carmack’s low-cost VR vision [142d]
• Mercedes’ patented steering may finally make EVs exciting to drive [143d]
• Dow Jones says Perplexity is “freeriding,” sues over copyright infringement [143d]
• Hands-on with the 2024 iPad mini: Spot the differences [143d]