The Brutalist Report - tech
- The Vega rocket never found its commercial niche. After tonight, it’s gone. [85d]
- After Starliner, NASA has another big human spaceflight decision to make [85d]
- Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations [85d]
- Internet Archive’s e-book lending is not fair use, appeals court rules [85d]
- Jack Black stars as expert crafter Steve in A Minecraft Movie teaser [85d]
- Record measles outbreak in Oregon blamed on vaccine exemptions [85d]
- Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products [85d]
- Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches [85d]
- Australian government trial finds AI is much worse than humans at summarizing [85d]
- DOJ subpoenas Nvidia in deepening AI antitrust probe, report says [85d]
- I added a ratgdo to my garage door, and I don’t know why I waited so long [85d]
- Cats play fetch more often than previously believed, though still less than dogs [85d]
- Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI [85d]
- Massive underwater eruption may preview deep-sea mining destruction [85d]
- Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is serious heavy-metal shooting and slashing [85d]
- Starlink relents to Brazil, agrees to block Elon Musk’s X platform [86d]
- The DNA secrets of a medieval cave-dwelling community [86d]
- Ford starts deliveries of enhanced-range E-Transit electric vans [86d]
- Qualcomm’s new 8-core Snapdragon chip is aimed at cheaper Arm Windows PCs [86d]
- Relativity Space has gone from printing money and rockets to doing what, exactly? [86d]
- Reonic raises €13 million to help small installers of green tech like heat pumps and solar panels [85d]
- Boom’s macOS camera app lets you customize your video call appearance [85d]
- Those ‘Founder mode’ memes keep coming [85d]
- Andreessen Horowitz shutters its Miami office after two years [85d]
- Boeing and NASA prepare to bring Starliner home without its crew on Friday [85d]
- Facebook says, ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’ [85d]
- E-bike maker Cowboy raises a small funding round as it targets profitability next year [85d]
- Paylocity acquiring corporate spend startup Airbase for $325M [85d]
- Publishers prevail in lawsuit over Internet Archive’s ’emergency’ e-book lending [85d]
- Ryan Breslow’s lofty $450M Bolt deal is in trouble [85d]
- Short series app My Drama takes on Character.AI with its new AI companions [85d]
- Woman who allegedly killed two people using Ford BlueCruise charged with DUI homicide [85d]
- X is hiring staff for security and safety after two years of layoffs [85d]
- This Week in AI: VCs (and devs) are enthusiastic about AI coding tools [85d]
- The Cosmos Institute, whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, launches grant programs and an AI lab [85d]
- As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation [85d]
- TechCrunch Minute: X lost 40 million monthly active users after Brazil ban [85d]
- Tinder update targets college students as dating apps struggle [85d]
- YouTube debuts new parental controls aimed at teens [85d]
- Ireland’s privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits [85d]
- X doubles down on video with a new TV app [86d]
- Apple event 2024: How to watch the iPhone 16 launch [86d]
- Watch this robotic wheelchair’s compliant wheels take on bumps, rocks and stairs [86d]
- Slauson & Co. raises $100M Fund II proving appetite for inclusion persists [86d]
- Students and recent grads: Only 3 days left to save on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Student Passes [86d]
- Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise plan to compete with OpenAI [86d]
- Mayfield allocates $100M to AI incubator modeled after its entrepreneur-in-residence program [86d]
- Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B [86d]
- Revefi seeks to automate companies’ data operations [86d]
- Dutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which will go toward digital tech [86d]
- DubClub wants amateur sports betters to win more [86d]
- You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round [86d]
- reMarkable’s Paper Pro adds color, light and more but keeps the focus on ‘focus’ [86d]
- UK regulator greenlights Microsoft’s Inflection acquihire, but also designates it a merger [86d]
- Why Lyft’s CEO says ‘it would be insane’ not to go all in on bikeshare [86d]
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- How Apple Intelligence is changing the way you use Siri on your iPhone [86d]
- What is Apple Intelligence, when is it coming and who will get it? [86d]
- Spotify launches its evolving playlist, daylist, globally [86d]
- NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, September 5 (game #186) [85d]
- Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, September 5 (game #955) [85d]
- NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Thursday, September 5 (game #452) [85d]
- Soundcore's most premium wireless headphones ever are also its coolest-looking and most portable [85d]
- Zillow's AI wants to help you find the dream home you didn't know you wanted [85d]
- ChatGPT gives Volkswagen cars the smarts to talk to you all day long [85d]
- The White House thinks it's time to repair a weak link in the internet [85d]
- It's time to let go of the Touch ID button, one of Apple's best inventions [85d]
- OnePlus Open 2 could steal Honor’s thunder by taking its ‘world’s thinnest foldable’ crown [85d]
- Beats just teased a Powerbeats Pro wireless earbuds successor – and there's good news and bad news [85d]
- Meet the MSI Claw 8 AI+, MSI's shot at redemption for the PC gaming handheld market [85d]
- YubiKey FIDO authenticators could be abused through unpatchable cryptographic flaw [85d]
- ExpressVPN finds "innovative" solution for ARM support [85d]
- Microsoft’s Arm-based Copilot+ PCs are fast and very capable with AI – but fresh doubt has been cast on the gaming prowess of these laptops [85d]
- The number of active ransomware groups is on the rise, research finds [86d]
- Google Workspace low security app cutoff is nearly here [86d]
- Intel's new chips have the latest video format that could solve streaming service's biggest issue, but it might be a while before your TV gets it [86d]
- More subpoenas issued to Nvidia as US continues antitrust case [86d]
- Businesses must act now to address the zero day surge [86d]
- The Minecraft movie's first teaser is here, and I can't decide if what's been crafted looks beautiful or horrifying [86d]
- 3 ways Microsoft Copilot can help your business perform better [86d]
- Netflix just released The Perfect Couple trailer and I'm already obsessed with Nicole Kidman's shady matriarch character [86d]
- Manufacturing sector AI and cloud app adoption is giving hackers even more ways in [86d]
- Acer reveals new Swift AI laptops, gaming PCs, and even a brand-new PC gaming handheld called the Nitro Blaze 7 [86d]
- Business routers vulnerable to OS command injection attack [86d]
- GoPro Hero launched alongside flagship Hero 13 Black – and it could be one of the best 4K action cams for beginners [86d]
- This new budget projector will go up to 200 inches, and has Netflix, Disney Plus and more streamers built in [86d]
- LG Gram 16 Pro is revealed at IFA 2024 with an Intel Lunar Lake CPU that should breeze through AI tasks [86d]
- Dark Winds climbs the Netflix charts after getting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes – here are 3 more mystery thrillers with flawless ratings [86d]
- Nvidia drops 10% as AI enthusiasm slows [86d]
- Forget the GoPro Hero 13 Black – this leaked Insta360 rival could offer 8K video and AI powers [86d]
- iPhone 16 Pro's new gold color tipped to be a 'stand out' shade, rather than a 'terrible' brown [86d]
- Philips OLED TVs dump the darkness and follow LG with Dolby Vision Filmmaker Mode [86d]
- Kanto Audio's Ren isn't skimpy when it comes to audio output [86d]
- Mullvad launches post-quantum protection for iPhones [86d]
- Microsoft PowerToy is here to launch your apps exactly as you want them [86d]
- Dell unveils range of new AI PCs — XPS 13, Inspiron 14 and Latitude 5455 all pack a punch thanks to new Intel and Snapdragon chips [86d]
- Leaked Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra image may have revealed Samsung's super-sized iPad rival [86d]
- Konami will publish indie driving game Deliver at All Costs - and it’s an awful lot of fun [86d]
- It's Lenco a-go-go! A trio of cool turntables just landed from the vinyl virtuoso [86d]
- The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is borrowing one of the best tricks from the Galaxy Z Fold 6 [86d]
- ChatGPT could add 8 new voices with more realistic animal sounds to give you a hassle-free virtual pet [86d]
- Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU rumored to be 10% faster than RTX 4090 – but it might guzzle nearly as much power as the Lovelace flagship [86d]
- SEO poisoning and VPN spoofing used to target anything and everything with WikiLoader malware [86d]
- Ariel’s Mad Max-inspired E-Nomad buggy hints at off-road hooliganism, without the noise [86d]
- FX and Hulu debut first teaser for Alien: Earth TV series, and it's the most underwhelming trailer I've seen in a while [86d]
- The iPhone SE 4 rumored again to have an OLED display, and could bring an end to LCD iPhones [86d]
- These are the best-paid roles for developers in the UK [86d]
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