The Brutalist Report

The Register

• SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year [2h]
• IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently [6h]
• Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds [7h]
• You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine [10h]
• Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks [10h]
• Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg [12h]
• Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today [14h]
• YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs [14h]
• Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant [15h]
• Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds [15h]
• Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks [15h]
• Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot [16h]
• Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot [16h]
• Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles [17h]
• What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks do and don't tell us about its $20B gamble [17h]
• What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble [17h]
• Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain [17h]
• ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach [18h]
• Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric [18h]
• I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg [19h]
• AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones [19h]
• US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years [20h]
• $1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack [20h]
• AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows [21h]
• Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia [21h]
• Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI [22h]
• Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring [23h]