The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• DJI ‘remains committed to the US market’ as shelves go bare of drones [10d]
• A nasal spray company wants to make it harder for the FTC to police health claims [10d]
• MindsEye developer undergoing layoffs less than a month after launch [10d]
• The US is stripping its forests of decades-old protections [10d]
• The Titan 2 is a modernized BlackBerry with 5G, Android, and a second screen [10d]
• This 55-inch QLED TV is on sale for $565 and looks like a picture frame when it isn’t being used [10d]
• Apple Wallet notifications for an F1 movie promotion ticked off iPhone owners [10d]
• Paramount Plus with Showtime is getting a rebrand [10d]
• Netflix is letting go of some of its best indie games [11d]
• Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale [11d]
• Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable [11d]
• Tesla’s robotaxis are operating in a regulatory vacuum [11d]
• Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom [11d]
• Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free, but there’s a catch [11d]
• Philips Hue is raising prices in the US ‘as a direct result of tariffs’ [11d]
• The latest Fire TV Stick 4K is half off ahead of Prime Day [11d]
• Nomad’s minimalist MagSafe wallet has a tracking card built in [11d]
• Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back [11d]
• Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM [11d]
• Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books [11d]
• Nintendo’s wheelchair basketball game will be out in August [11d]
• Microsoft planning ‘major’ Xbox layoffs next week [11d]
• Android’s youthful new design will change the way you make and answer calls [11d]
• I skipped every Death Stranding cutscene and I’ll do it again [11d]
• Google DeepMind’s optimized AI model runs directly on robots [11d]
• What a set of knockoff headphones taught me about headphones — and knockoffs [11d]
• Amazon bringing same-day delivery to ‘millions’ of rural customers [11d]
• These battery-powered 4K cameras record 24/7 [11d]
• Tesla’s robotaxi reality check [11d]
• A week in Xbox VR with Microsoft and Meta’s new $399 headset [11d]
• AT&T is making it easier to send pictures to 911 dispatchers [11d]
• Google Earth adds old Street View captures to rewind time from the street level [11d]
• How AI infiltrated perfume [11d]
• Waymo’s robotaxis are now available on the Uber app in Atlanta [11d]
• Verizon adopts Google’s Gemini AI to help customers solve ‘complex’ issues [11d]
• Riot is shutting down studio behind its Minecraft-like game [11d]
• Windows 11’s indicators for volume and brightness can soon be moved out of the way [11d]
• Raleigh One e-bike launches with VanMoof DNA [11d]
• OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable [11d]
• Yale’s new Google Home smart lock is here — but it costs more thanks to tariffs [11d]