The Brutalist Report - tech
- CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home [5d]
- 20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit [5d]
- Law firm 'didn't think' data theft was a breach, says ICO. Now it's nursing a £60K fine [5d]
- AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed [5d]
- ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets [5d]
- Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite [5d]
- In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield [5d]
- Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing [5d]
- Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector [5d]
- TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails [5d]
- Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails [5d]
- Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files [5d]
- South Korea to build mini-fabs as part of $25 billion plan to prop up tariff-targeted industries [5d]
- Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals [5d]
- Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter [5d]
- Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program [5d]
- Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops [6d]
- Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz [6d]
- Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again [6d]
- 4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum [6d]
- Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips [6d]
- China names alleged US snoops over Asian Winter Games attacks [6d]
- All right, you can have one: DOGE access to Treasury IT OK'd judge [6d]
- Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank [6d]
- Zoom restores service after an hours-long outage [5d]
- Chapter, a Medicare startup with links to Vance, Thiel, and Ramaswamy, just raised a round at $1.5B valuation [5d]
- Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban [5d]
- Rippling wants UK fintech Revolut to reveal who paid off Deel’s alleged ‘spy’ [5d]
- Former CISA director Chris Krebs vows to fight back against Trump-ordered federal investigation [5d]
- OpenAI’s latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisks [5d]
- Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer [5d]
- Trump-appointed judge orders Trump admin to ‘turn the funding spigots back on’ [5d]
- OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week [5d]
- Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh [5d]
- Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS [5d]
- OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s o3 AI model [5d]
- India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe [5d]
- OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini [5d]
- OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals [5d]
- Digital frame maker Aura introduces the Aspen, a $299 frame with more intelligent features [5d]
- Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads [5d]
- Apple races to surpass rivals in quest to eliminate carbon pollution [5d]
- Startup funding hit records in Q1. But the outlook for 2025 is still awful. [5d]
- Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs [5d]
- NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers accused of 2019 WhatsApp hacks [5d]
- NSO lawyer names Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan as spyware customers behind 2019 WhatsApp hacks [5d]
- As Deezer approaches profitability, it rolls out a custom algorithm and other new features [5d]
- TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a new Community Notes-like feature [5d]
- Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI [5d]
- Kia is pitching Americans an affordable EV sedan with EV4 debut [5d]
- Bolt’s Ryan Breslow pins his hopes on a new app that takes on Coinbase, Zelle, and PayPal [5d]
- Less than a month left to claim your brand’s spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with an exhibit table [5d]
- Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands [5d]
- TechCrunch All Stage: Full agenda revealed [5d]
- Subaru debuts Trailseeker, an all-electric SUV coming for Rivian’s outdoorsy EV customer base [5d]
- Lyft to buy taxi app FREENOW for $197M to enter Europe [5d]
- AMD estimates $800M charge on US license requirement for AI chips [5d]
- Patreon tests a native live video feature where creators can stream 24/7 [5d]
- A dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topics [5d]
- X’s UK division saw revenue decline 66% in 2023 following Musk’s takeover [5d]
- Cosmic Robotics’ robots could speed up solar panel deployments [5d]
- Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation [5d]
- Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud [5d]
- Visa-backed African unicorn Moniepoint tackles remittances. But is it late to the game? [5d]
- Opera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browser [5d]
- TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, is joining our StrictlyVC London lineup [5d]
- How Musk manages his growing family: WSJ [6d]
[ai]
- Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps [6d]
- No new articles in the last 24 hours.
- Zoom is down for many – here's what we know about the video calling platform's outage [5d]
- Prime Video cancels Citadel spinoffs that have way higher Rotten Tomatoes ratings than the original – but Citadel season 2 is still coming [5d]
- Yes! Samsung's new rugged tablet has an audio connector, but don't expect it to be a gaming monster [5d]
- Deezer is rolling out its answer to Wrapped and Replay, plus three new features you won't find on Spotify or Apple Music [5d]
- This new hitman series is a streaming hit on Netflix – here are 3 more great thrillers to watch, including one with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes [5d]
- The Nintendo Switch 2 versions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom will let players repair their gear, but only if they download an app [5d]
- Big Tesla update brings 5 new features to its EVs, but not everyone will get them [5d]
- Google Messages is testing some useful upgrades – here are 5 features that could be coming [5d]
- Zeekr's new 007 GT looks like the ultimate family EV – with 10-minute charging and over 500 miles of range [5d]
- Toshiba's wireless portable turntable is the Sound Burger of 2025 – just don't take it to beach parties [5d]
- I'm not going to spend money on these limited edition Doom: The Dark Ages Xbox controllers, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to pre-order them [5d]
- Ransomware operators are demanding more if they detect cyber-insurance [5d]
- Claude tipped to get its answer to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode soon - is adding an AI voice to a chatbot yet another tick box exercise? [5d]
- Surfshark finally adds split tunneling on macOS – making it one of the few VPNs to have it [5d]
- Mario Kart World Nintendo Direct build-up live: start time, how to watch, official runtime, and all our predictions for the upcoming Switch 2 game [5d]
- How next-generation AI and data clusters are pioneering fraud defense [5d]
- How to empower developers to reduce wasted cloud infrastructure spend [5d]
- Bots now account for over half of all internet traffic [5d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, April 17 (game #410) [5d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, April 17 (game #676) [5d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, April 17 (game #1179) [5d]
- Funding for the critical CVE security detection system renewed just hours before deadline [5d]
- This cheap projector has a gimbal stand and smart auto adjustments so it's easy to stream Netflix and Prime Video anywhere [5d]
- The entire Pentagon defense technology is resigning, putting US at huge risk of cyberattacks [5d]
[ai]
- AMD strikes back in May? RX 9060 XT rumored to launch next month to face Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU in lower-mid-range shootout [5d]
- Nvidia says US chip tariffs mean it faces multi-billion dollar hit [5d]
- Windows 11 is about to get a nifty shortcut for copying out all the text from an image [5d]
- Spotify isn't working for many –here's everything we know so far [5d]
- Millions of UK healthcare worker records exposed in massive software breach [5d]
- These amazing stereo speakers look like they belong in Elton John's house – and I'd take a pair too if I had Rocket Man money [5d]
- Farewell, iPhone 6S – Apple marks classic phone as 'vintage' alongside this Mac mini [5d]
- "Downfall" of 4chan? Infamous site hit with alleged hack as attackers cause major outage, leak source code [5d]
- ChatGPT gets a useful new home for your AI images – and it could be the first step towards OpenAI's new Instagram rival [5d]
- Grok AI is under investigation in the EU over potential GDPR violations – here's what you need to know [5d]
- Your Android phone is getting a major new security feature – here's how auto-reboot works [5d]
- Notion launches AI-powered email app to give busy users a productivity boost [5d]
- Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will reportedly begin soon in Canada, and I'm hoping that the US follows suit [5d]
- Daredevil Born Again season 1 ending explained: does [spoiler] show up, when does season 2 come out, and more Marvel questions answered [5d]
- Google search ditches country-specific domains, directs all users to google.com [5d]
- Start saving – foldable iPhone price rumor suggests it could cost more than a MacBook Pro [5d]
- ActiveX is now being blocked by default in Microsoft 365 [5d]
- Finally, Microsoft Teams is fixing one of my biggest everyday woork issues, and I couldn't be happier [5d]
- I hope these Oblivion remaster leaks are real so I can return to the fever dream that is Cyrodiil [5d]
- AI is rewriting the ransomware playbook - can businesses keep up? [5d]
- AI in healthcare, five years after lockdown – a different system, and a better one [5d]
- The wildest product we saw at CES is finally on sale, and we project good things [6d]
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