The Brutalist Report

The Register

• AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters [20d]
• Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year [20d]
• Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job so HR can 'do less of the repetitive stuff' [20d]
• Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI [20d]
• Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home [20d]
• Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case [20d]
• SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon [20d]
• British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees [20d]
• UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff [20d]
• Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds [20d]
• Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it [20d]
• Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing [20d]
• Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible [21d]
• SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover [21d]
• Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V [21d]
• The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish [21d]
• Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data [21d]
• FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America [21d]
• Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters [21d]
• Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan [21d]
• Price fixing as a service – inside the claim against health insurance software maker MultiPlan [21d]
• With AI boom in full force 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record [21d]
• Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares [21d]