The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• A Starlink satellite seems to have exploded [1h]
• The TikTok US sale is finally happening [10h]
• Threads wants to be the app you can’t wait to open in the morning [11h]
• Oh snap, I have a new favorite phone grip [11h]
• Steam’s annual winter sale is here — these are the best games to get [11h]
• OpenAI and Anthropic will start predicting when users are underage [12h]
• Instagram wants to limit hashtag spam [12h]
• LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it [13h]
• Google’s Gemini app can check videos to see if they were made with Google AI [13h]
• 30 great gift ideas that should arrive in time for Christmas [15h]
• Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters [16h]
• Netflix snags Elle Duncan from ESPN to host live events [17h]
• Kia and Hyundai will spend millions fixing old cars to stop ‘Kia Boyz’ thefts [17h]
• iRobot’s bankruptcy isn’t the end — it’s a reboot, says its CEO [17h]
• How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web [17h]
• Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises [18h]
• Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026 [18h]
• ‘All chaos and panic’: Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions [19h]
• The latest iPad Air is $400 for the first time and arrives by Christmas [20h]
• 2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war [20h]
• Trump Media is merging with a nuclear fusion company [21h]
• AI companies are sick of their favorite buzzword [21h]
• Apple opens iOS to third-party app stores in Japan [22h]