The Brutalist Report

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• OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions [66d]
• Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker [66d]
• Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era [66d]
• Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch [66d]
• O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date [66d]
• Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze [66d]
• 21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI [66d]
• Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028 [66d]
• Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit [66d]
• AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime [66d]
• Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form [66d]
• Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax [66d]
• Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges [66d]
• Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage [66d]
• Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’ [66d]
• India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1 [66d]
• Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI [67d]