The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Unhealthiest Foods on the Planet, According to Science [2d]
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- Maze Algorithms [2d]
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- Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data [2d]
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- A dot a day keeps the clutter away [2d]
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- OpenAI raises $122B to accelerate the next phase of AI [2d]
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- Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs [2d]
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- Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack) [2d]
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- JSSE: A JavaScript Engine Built by an Agent [2d]
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- Accelerating the Next Phase of AI [2d]
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- OpenAI raises $122B [2d]
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- Super Micro Computer Investors Look for Exits [2d]
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- Prefer do notation over Applicative operators when assembling records (2024) [2d]
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- I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node [2d]
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- Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology [2d]
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- GitHub's Historic Uptime [2d]
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- Show HN: My open-world voxel game with a magic system, playable in the browser [2d]
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- Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East [2d]
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- OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says [2d]
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- I Decompiled the White House's New App [2d]
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- Ask HN: Academic study on AI's impact on software development – want to join? [2d]
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- Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard [2d]
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- Show HN: How This Graybeard Built the Fastest and Freest Postgres BM25 Search [2d]
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- Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition [2d]
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- Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models [2d]
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- Forth VM and compiler written in C++ and Scryer Prolog [2d]
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- Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner [2d]
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- The story of Britain's oldest sweet, the Pontefract Cake (2019) [2d]
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- Show HN: Hyprmoncfg – Terminal-based monitor config manager for Hyprland [2d]
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- Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf] [2d]
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- Dot – A Siri Replacement learns skills through Apple Shortcuts [2d]
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- Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war [2d]
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- Tell HN: Chrome says "Suspicious Download" when trying to download yt-dlp [2d]
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- Project Mario: the inside story of DeepMind [2d]
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- Trap a quantum object in a box – is it hard or soft, or is it black or white? [2d]
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- GitHub Monaspace Case Study [2d]
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- I Read the Leaked Claude Code Source – Here's What I Found [2d]
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- On the trail of ancient art, deep in the Sahara [2d]
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- Good Code Will Still Win [2d]
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- Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email [2d]
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- Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only [2d]
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- RubyGems Fracture Incident Report [2d]
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- Distributed data centers in our basements [2d]
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- The Feedback Loop Is All You Need [3d]
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- Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career [3d]
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- The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode [3d]
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- Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) [3d]
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- Anthropic: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' [3d]
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- Marketplace for bots? Who needs that? [3d]
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- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico) [2d]
- Salesforce announces over 30 new features for Slack, including a meeting transcription feature and an operator mode to complete multi-step tasks on the desktop (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) [2d]
- Sources: AT&T agreed last week to a deal worth up to $2B to upgrade the FirstNet emergency cellular network it runs for the Commerce Department (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired) [2d]
- Sources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: threat actors stole Cisco source code by breaching its internal development environment using credentials from a recent Trivy supply chain attack (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) [2d]
- An excerpt from the book The Infinity Machine details how DeepMind's early governance battles with Google changed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist (Sebastian Mallaby/Colossus) [2d]
- Samsung launches Hearapy, a free Android app to mitigate motion sickness by playing a 100Hz sine wave tone; a 60-second session can provide two hours of relief (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge) [2d]
- Austin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [2d]
- Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created role of chairman, after he announced his retirement in 2022 from his role as "senior steward" (Iain Martin/Forbes) [2d]
- Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- Snap shares climbed 14% on Tuesday after activist investor Irenic suggested changes to boost the stock's value 7x, such as cutting staff by 21% and ending Specs (Lola Murti/CNBC) [2d]
- Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [2d]
- OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (George Hammond/Financial Times) [2d]
- OpenAI closed a record-breaking $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at a post-money valuation of $852B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- PrismML, which says its 1-bit LLM achieves radical compression without sacrificing performance, comes out of stealth with $16.25M in SAFE and seed funding (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Iranian media: Iran arrested 46 people allegedly in a network selling Starlink terminals and seized 139 terminals; there are an estimated 50K terminals in Iran (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Monzo is shuttering its US operations to focus on scaling in the UK and Europe; source: it will lay off ~50 employees and close clients' accounts in June (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for "high-volume video applications", and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google) [2d]
- Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla in the Middle East starting 8PM local time on April 1 (Julia Shapero/The Hill) [2d]
- Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are set to continue in Geneva this spring (Ana Swanson/New York Times) [2d]
- Sources: Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs in its latest layoffs as the company continues to ramp AI spending; as of May 2025, Oracle employed 162,000 people (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [2d]
- Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked via a misconfigured npm package, revealing internal codenames, a "Self-Healing Memory" architecture, and more (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [2d]
- A researcher finds that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool has had its full TypeScript source code inadvertently exposed through a misconfigured npm package (Guru Baran/Cyber Security News) [2d]
- Google says all users in the US can now change their Google Account username; users are restricted to one username change every 12 months (Kris Holt/Engadget) [2d]
- Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Meta unveils the $499 Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics, offering slimmer frames, swappable nosepads, and adjustable temple tips, on sale April 14 (Karissa Bell/Engadget) [3d]
- Amazon replaces Amex with US Bancorp as the issuer for its Prime Business and Amazon Business credit cards that it is relaunching in the coming months (Yizhu Wang/Bloomberg) [3d]
- OpenFX, an FX market-making and remittance startup launched by a FalconX co-founder, raised $94M led by Accel and others, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Reuters) [3d]
- New York-based Linx Security, whose Autopilot agent proactively maps and remediates identity-related failures, raised a $50M Series B from Index and others (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) [3d]
- Micromobility delivery startup Also, a Rivian spinoff, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $1B valuation and enters a multiyear partnership with DoorDash (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [3d]
- AirPods Max 2 review: comfortable, excellent sound quality, and lots of new features, but retains the same design, pricey, and only one hearing health feature (Billy Steele/Engadget) [3d]
- Instagram reaches an agreement with the MPA to cease using the PG-13 trademark in its Teen Accounts marketing, after a C&D letter, and will add a disclaimer (New York Times) [3d]
- Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET) [3d]
- Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5, including a 6x Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs that utilizes a second-gen transformer AI model (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [3d]
- TCL agrees to buy a 51% stake in Sony's global home entertainment business for ~$472M, as the Chinese company seeks to expand overseas; Sony retains a 49% stake (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sources: Tether cuts two senior precious metals traders who joined from HSBC just months ago in its push to build "the best trading floor for gold in the world" (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Nvidia invests $2B in chipmaker Marvell and says the two companies plan to work on silicon photonics tech, enabling high-speed data transmission; MRVL jumps 9%+ (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Huawei reports 2025 revenue up 2.2% YoY to ~$127.5B, net profit up 8.7% YoY to ~$9.8B, and R&D spend up 7% YoY to ~$27.8B, as it invests in chip networking tech (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- CoreWeave raised an $8.5B loan from banks and investors to expand its cloud computing capacity, in what it says is the largest chip-backed debt deal of its kind (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sarasota-based Tenex, which offers an AI-enabled managed cybersecurity detection and response service, raised $250M led by Crosspoint at a $1B+ valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Netflix feels comfortable raising prices knowing customers can downgrade to its ad tier; in 2026, Netflix is on track to double 2025's $1.5B+ in ad sales (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) [3d]
- 'Never in my wildest dreams did I expect this to happen' — pro sealife photographer captures 'first-ever' photos of rare seal in Antarctica [2d]
- I used a simple ChatGPT ‘gig finder’ prompt — and it found bands playing near me I’d never heard of [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, April 1 (game #1528) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, April 1 (game #759) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 1 (game #1025) [2d]
- 'Performance without compromise': AMD debuts first dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen CPU in potential showdown against Threadripper and EPYC siblings [2d]
- Delta is finally joining the faster satellite Wi-Fi craze with Amazon — but if you want in-flight satellite now, you’ll still want to book United [2d]
- Apple turns 50 — we’re live tracking the celebration, surprises, and more [2d]
- The Division Resurgence seems like the perfect way to get your MMO shooter fix on the go — 'We believe it's a good way to catch up with the universe in a more flexible way' developer says [2d]
- Say goodbye to printed signs at work — Samsung says its new color e-paper will bring in a new era of workplace comms [2d]
- I was in love with Meta’s ‘most comfortable glasses’ ever, and then I saw the price tag [2d]
- 'AI-driven traffic is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic': New report claims it's official — AI and bots have taken over the internet [2d]
- Here are 13 TV deals I'd buy before Amazon's Spring Sale ends — shop award-winning 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs from $145 [2d]
- The Elder Scrolls Online Season Zero adds an all-new event zone in upcoming seasonal content that's 'free for anyone who owns the game’ [2d]
- The Elder Scrolls Online is coming to PC Game Pass in June, and it's free right now with PlayStation Plus [2d]
- 12 essential MagSafe accessories for travel [2d]
- I wouldn't let Amazon's Spring Sale come to a close without scoring these epic Lego deals — shop my top picks from $15.99 [2d]
- DR Congo vs Jamaica free streams: How to watch 2026 World Cup intercontinental playoff, TV schedule, preview [2d]
- I saw Steve Jobs give his last WWDC presentation — and that was when I knew Apple could last for 50 years and beyond [2d]
- 'A hard truth for the AI era: don’t assume AI tools are secure by default': OpenAI patches flaw allowing silent data leakage from ChatGPT conversations without users ever knowing [2d]
- A24's Backrooms has a full trailer — and its found footage clips have left me absolutely terrified [2d]
- Apple TV's Cape Fear trailer gives a chilling first look at villain Max Cady and fans are impressed: 'Javier Bardem can do anything' [2d]
- Is Apple’s rumored AI strategy a risk to your iPhone? Here’s why the new Siri could be the last thing Apple fans need [2d]
- Keep your files protected: 1TB Samsung T9 Portable SSD gets a welcome price cut for World Backup Day [2d]
- How to watch Sweden vs Poland for FREE: live streams for World Cup Qualifier 2026 [2d]
- This roguelike coin pusher game has all the addictive fun of the arcade without wasting your pocket money [2d]
- Crimson Desert Kliff actor reveals his character changed a lot during development and he had to push Pearl Abyss for clarity — 'I just kept pushing and pushing and pushing about story and character as much as I could' [2d]
- These Sony headphones are 'still the best in the business' — and they're down to a new record-low price for a very limited time [2d]
- More and more workers say they'd be happy with an AI boss — but don't expect it to give them a raise any time soon [2d]
- Russia moves to 'reduce VPN usage' with new blocking, fines and fees [2d]
- Rec Room is the latest VR metaverse closure — but I have hopes it'll return in AR [2d]
- The new base iPad was a no-show at Apple's March event, but it doesn’t even matter — the current model is still the best cheap tablet you can buy, and it’s on sale now [2d]
- Gmail is finally letting you change your embarrassing email address — here’s how to do it on Android, iOS, and desktop [2d]
- Czechia vs Denmark Free Streams: TV Channels & Preview for FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifier final [2d]
- Players can 'unlock Xbox-themed interactive challenges' by buying special edition Fanta cans plus win in-game content for Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, along with console prizes [2d]
- How to watch Kosovo vs Turkey: Free Streams & TV Channels for World Cup 2026 playoff qualifier final [2d]
- How to watch Bosnia-Herzegovina vs Italy: Free Streams & TV Channels for World Cup 2026 playoff [2d]
- Think fancy HDMI cables are a waste of money? They're not — and a new fiber cable that just went viral proves it [2d]
- Critical Citrix NetScaler flaw gets official patch warning from CISA [2d]
- 'Unlimited GPU upgrade glitch unlocked': Redditor gifted a dead Nvidia RTX 5070 reportedly has it replaced by an RTX 5070 Ti [2d]
- I've looked through hundreds of listings in the HP Spring sale — these are the 9 best deals on RTX 5060, 5070, and 5080 machines [2d]
- SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD deal: One of the best rugged portable drives we've tested gets a big discount for World Backup Day [2d]
- This is the best VPN and cloud storage deal you'll find this World Backup Day [2d]
- 'The open world is big for mobile, but it's like 60 to 70% of The Division 1' reveals Resurgence developer ahead of the game's launch [2d]
- AI‑first browsers and the end of the pageview economy [2d]
- 'Not just development tools': Security experts discover critical flaw in OpenAI's Codex which could compromise entire enterprise organizations [2d]
- Got a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 or later? You'll be able to 'monitor your blood pressure right from the wrist' very soon [2d]
- How Europe is confronting its digital dependency problem [2d]
- Fragmented promotion systems are eroding retail price trust and integration alone won’t fix it [2d]
- The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann teases a 'few stops that remain on the road ahead' of the beloved Naughty Dog series [2d]
- 5 Taylor Sheridan shows are dominating the Paramount+ top 10 this week — but you only need to stream his 'ultimate masterpiece' [3d]
- This 'top smart ring for Samsung users' drops to a record-low price at Currys [3d]
- Healthcare tech firm CareCloud admits data breach, says hackers accessed patient info — here's what we know [3d]
- This is the USB drive I swear by and I can't find it cheaper anywhere else — SanDisk's reliable 128GB Ultra Flair gets a discount for World Backup Day at Amazon [3d]
- ‘My flashlight lens melted’ — some Pixel 10 Pro users are reporting serious issues with the flashlight feature [3d]
- I tried AirPods Max 2, and they're an upgrade worth waiting five years for — it’s the smarter, more immersive listening experience that stands out [3d]
- 'Even we can’t access it': ExpressVPN launches ExpressAI chatbot to comprehensively end the era of AI data mining [3d]
- What is the release date for Scrubs season 10 episode 7 on Hulu and Disney+? [3d]
- 'Only limited by the physics': inside Apple’s AirPods Max 2 and the H2 chip upgrade [3d]
- The 'perfect starter NAS' is on sale for World Backup Day — save 20% on the UGreen NAS DH2300 2-Bay Desktop [3d]
- It's official: TCL will make Sony's future TVs in a new joint venture — say hello to 'Bravia, Inc' [3d]
- I tested this super-cheap MP3 player for a month, and I'm surprised to say it quickly became my go-to music source [3d]
- Save a huge $120 on 32GB of super-fast DDR5-6000 using this special code — while stocks last [3d]
- The cheap box that adds Freely's free streaming channels to any TV is back in stock — but don't be surprised if it sells out again [3d]
- 'This is horrific': GitHub kills Copilot pull-request ads after user backlash [3d]
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