The Brutalist Report

The Register

• Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations [27d]
• Microsoft continues Control Panel farewell tour [27d]
• Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America [27d]
• Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud [27d]
• US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world's biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets [27d]
• Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS [27d]
• Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction [27d]
• Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension [27d]
• AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders [27d]
• Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks [27d]
• FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached [27d]
• The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety [27d]
• AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is ‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’ [27d]
• Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere [27d]
• China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday [28d]
• Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass [28d]
• Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word [28d]
• Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range [28d]
• Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE [28d]
• Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees [28d]
• IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4 [28d]
• Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions [28d]
• Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch [28d]
• FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure [28d]
• GSA launches AI sandbox, says it won't be around for long [28d]
• Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist [28d]
• Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven [28d]