The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Bill Gates’ nuclear energy startup inks new data center deal [33m]
• Perplexity now has a mobile assistant on Android [1h]
• Substack is spending $20 million to court TikTokers [1h]
• Everything we saw at Xbox’s Developer Direct 2025 [1h]
• Fitbit fined $12 million for Ionic smartwatches that burned 78 people [1h]
• Google’s Identity Check for Android keeps phone thieves out of your digital accounts [1h]
• Android 16’s first public beta adds Google’s more limited take on live lockscreen notifications [2h]
• Doom: The Dark Ages looks metal as hell and launches in May [2h]
• Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming to Xbox, PC, and PS5 [2h]
• Microsoft rumored to launch a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop soon [2h]
• Epic expands its mobile game store by helping cover developer iOS fees [3h]
• OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you [3h]
• Pocketpair follows Palworld’s success with new indie publishing label [3h]
• The Sonos Arc is matching its best price to date just in time for the Super Bowl [3h]
• Google’s mobile search results are dropping the ‘breadcrumbs’ from URLs [3h]
• Google is giving IT more control over your Chrome extensions [4h]
• Dasung’s new portable E Ink monitor has a 60Hz refresh rate [4h]
• CNN is building a new streaming service nearly three years after killing its last one [4h]
• Matter will be better in 2025 — say the people who make it [5h]
• Samsung Galaxy Ring drops to a new record low of $280 [5h]
• How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power [5h]
• Comcast launches a $70 sports streaming bundle with NFL, NBA, and MLB games [6h]
• How to watch today’s Xbox Developer Direct [6h]
• Pokemon TCG Pocket’s next expansion launches on January 30th [6h]
• I fit the world’s most powerful graphics card in my aging miniature SFF PC [6h]
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: a new king of 4K is here [7h]
• The Cadillac Lyriq-V is quicker than the CT5-V Blackwing [8h]
• Star Trek: Section 31 is firing on all cylinders [8h]
• The Royal Shakespeare Company is turning Macbeth into a neo-noir game [15h]