The Brutalist Report

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• Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor [50d]
• Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales [50d]
• Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft [50d]
• Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear' [50d]
• UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots [50d]
• Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware [50d]
• Data watchdog put cops on naughty step for lost CCTV footage [50d]
• The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force [50d]
• Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor [50d]
• The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy [50d]
• Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud [50d]
• Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war [50d]
• Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage [50d]
• Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans [50d]
• Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud [50d]
• Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs [50d]
• Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful [50d]
• Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers [50d]
• Elon Musk bragged this group had been 'deleted' when DOGE shut it down - now they're appealing [50d]
• Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry [50d]
• Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy [51d]