The Brutalist Report

The Register

• Zed code editor hears your prayers, rolls out AI-free mode [50d]
• Italy says Meta may be violating law with AI in WhatsApp [50d]
• Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk [51d]
• NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177M to drop more bots on the Moon [51d]
• Edge case: Opera claims Microsoft still playing dirty with defaults [51d]
• Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data [51d]
• Broadband biz fined for emergency caller location data fail [51d]
• Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary [51d]
• Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling [51d]
• Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals [51d]
• Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy [51d]
• Cisco donates Agntcy project to Linux Foundation in the hope it gets AI agents interacting elegantly [51d]
• Australia bans kids from signing up for YouTube accounts, angering Google [51d]
• Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami [51d]
• Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts just 14 seconds [51d]
• Florida Man earns five-year sentence for $100 million telco fraud [51d]
• CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when [51d]
• Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver [51d]
• Stacking up Huawei’s rack-scale boogeyman against Nvidia’s best [51d]
• US agencies log nearly 9x more GenAI use cases in 2024 - but deployments stall [51d]
• FBI: Watch out for these signs Scattered Spider is spinning its web around your org [51d]
• Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions [51d]
• US sends 33,000 smart 'strike kits' to make Ukrainian drones even deadlier [51d]
• Waymo plots Dallas robotaxi launch, stays ahead of Tesla in Texas turf war [51d]
• Windows 10 turns 10: Dying OS just worked, lacked compatibility chaos [51d]