The Brutalist Report

The Register

• US Army straps on another mixed-reality gamble with Anduril, Rivet [7d]
• Why Windows 95 left a handy power saving feature on the cutting-room floor [7d]
• Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true [7d]
• What the Plex? Streaming service suffers yet another password spill [7d]
• Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder's biz for nearly $20B [7d]
• Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more [7d]
• SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal [7d]
• UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age [7d]
• Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone [7d]
• Anthropic's Claude Code runs code to test if it is safe – which might be a big mistake [7d]
• AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments [7d]
• Legacy tech blunts UK top cops' fight against serious crime, inspectors find [7d]
• Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS [7d]
• UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content [7d]
• Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills [7d]
• Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free [7d]
• Citrix products sold under old licenses will get glitchy unless users upgrade [7d]
• Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard [7d]
• WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting [7d]
• Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips [7d]
• Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage' [7d]
• The US government has no idea how many cybersecurity pros it employs [8d]
• How huge breach started: Drift attackers gained entry via a Salesloft GitHub account [8d]
• Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised [8d]
• AI chip startup d-Matrix aspires to rack scale with JetStream I/O cards [8d]
• Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one? [8d]