The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Feds charge director with $11 million fraud over his unfinished Netflix show [118d]
• Democratic FTC commissioners say they were just ‘illegally fired’ by President Trump [118d]
• Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City [118d]
• Tesla awarded ride-hail permit in California, a first step for robotaxis [118d]
• Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months [118d]
• A new Mission to Zyxx spin-off podcast is on the way [118d]
• This watch has Pong and Missile Command instead of apps [118d]
• US music subscriptions cross 100 million as digital downloads drop [118d]
• Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’ [118d]
• Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power [118d]
• Nvidia’s cute ‘Digits’ AI desktop is coming this summer with a new name and a big brother [118d]
• JD Vance tries to mend the MAGA-Tech divide [118d]
• Oracle is reportedly in the lead to save TikTok from US ban [118d]
• Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra GB300 and Vera Rubin, its next AI ‘superchips’ [118d]
• Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks will resign this spring [118d]
• Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available [118d]
• Our five favorite dunks from Drake’s label over his ‘Not Like Us’ lawsuit [118d]
• GM taps Nvidia to boost its embattled self-driving projects [118d]
• Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’? [118d]
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows finally showed me the appeal of Ubisoft’s tentpole franchise [118d]
• Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 retro console has been delayed, again [118d]
• HP’s Omen 16 Slim gaming laptop packs an RTX 5070 GPU into a thin-ish chassis [118d]
• A slew of new HP OmniBooks includes chip bumps and a featherweight Aero [118d]
• Every gaming headset should have a backup mic like the new Cloud III S Wireless [118d]
• The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year [118d]
• Google’s Gemini gets conversational coding and an AI podcast maker [118d]
• Satellite launch kicks off a new effort to monitor wildfires from space [118d]
• Lego announces Pokémon sets are coming next year [118d]
• Nanoleaf’s new immersive backlight kit plugs directly into your PC [118d]
• Hundreds of celebrities warn against letting OpenAI and Google ‘freely exploit’ Hollywood [118d]
• Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars [118d]
• One of the Wii U’s biggest adventures is now on the Switch [118d]
• Google acquires cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion [119d]
• How Trump and Musk built their own reality [119d]
• Bumble is getting ID verification [119d]
• BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s [119d]