The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess [30d]
• Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere [30d]
• AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years [30d]
• Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping [30d]
• GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down [30d]
• Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs [30d]
• Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk? [30d]
• LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find [30d]
• RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo [30d]
• Trump strikes “wild” deal making US firms pay 15% tax on China chip sales [30d]
• Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes [30d]
• Ford bets big on “Universal EV Production System” and $30k truck [30d]
• Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean [30d]
• Netflix drops One Piece S2 teaser, renews for S3 [31d]
• How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth? [31d]