The Brutalist Report

The Register

• OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter [50d]
• The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey [50d]
• Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers [50d]
• Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks [50d]
• Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding [50d]
• OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs [50d]
• GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code [50d]
• Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out [50d]
• AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments [50d]
• Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human [50d]
• Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car [50d]
• Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die [50d]
• China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears [50d]
• Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander [50d]
• Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design [50d]
• Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down [50d]
• Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B [50d]
• Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint [50d]
• Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road [51d]
• Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs [51d]
• NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits [51d]
• AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage [51d]
• AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top [51d]
• Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids [51d]
• Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows [51d]