The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Working on Economics with Fable 5 [2d]
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- U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative [2d]
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- Opus5/low can do CryptoNote base58 decoding toolless, in working memory alone [2d]
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- Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief [2d]
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- Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength [2d]
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- Chasa [2d]
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- Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support [2d]
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- App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours [2d]
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- Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering [2d]
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- Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it [2d]
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- Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% [2d]
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- ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests' [2d]
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- Assembly Hall of Shame [2d]
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- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 [2d]
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- The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5 [2d]
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- Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK [2d]
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- Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years [2d]
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- Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) [2d]
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- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities [2d]
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- The AI Billboards Are Killing SF [2d]
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- This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again [2d]
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- Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been [2d]
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- Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 [2d]
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- An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes [2d]
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- An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018) [2d]
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- Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined [2d]
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- Möbius-Strip Crosswords [2d]
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- Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] [2d]
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- 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots [2d]
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- US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data [2d]
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- U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower [3d]
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- AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot [3d]
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- The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale [3d]
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- Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice [3d]
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- U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal [3d]
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- Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? [3d]
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- Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language [3d]
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- DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says [3d]
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- Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler [3d]
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- The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate [3d]
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- Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD [3d]
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- Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS [3d]
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- Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates [3d]
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- Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas [3d]
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- US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects [3d]
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- Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges [3d]
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- Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity [3d]
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- All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out [3d]
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- I won't read LLM authored fiction [3d]
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- Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses [3d]
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- I've succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian [3d]
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- Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day [3d]
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- Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money [3d]
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- Slap ROM Patcher [3d]
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- "The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) [3d]
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- Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware [3d]
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- Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone [3d]
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- An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise [3d]
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- New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human [3d]
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- Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money [3d]
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- Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds [3d]
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- Meta ordered to pay $567M in New Mexico for teen mental health fund [3d]
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- Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media [3d]
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- Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (Financial Times) [2d]
- The US OCC denies Dutch fintech Bunq's application for a national bank charter, citing the need for more clarity on its business plan to expand in the US (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms (Jasper Goodman/Politico) [2d]
- Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data (Arriana McLymore/Reuters) [2d]
- TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE (Sara Fischer/Axios) [2d]
- Sources: Cursor told staff Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out (Grace Kay/The Information) [2d]
- The US Treasury sanctions Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit, alleging it processed millions in crypto for IRGC and other Iran-linked groups (Reuters) [2d]
- Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [2d]
- Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups) [2d]
- Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue (The Information) [2d]
- Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it "cannot rule out" critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying launch (Axios) [2d]
- Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it private in an all-cash deal with an enterprise value of around $2.15B, expected to close by Q1 2027 (Brian Steinberg/Variety) [2d]
- Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr/DealStreetAsia) [2d]
- Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of staff this week, citing AI as a "major platform shift"; sources: 50-60 employees were cut, including its CTO (Nat Ives/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related "fallbacks" by ~85% in testing across product surfaces (Anthropic) [2d]
- At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment (Black Hat on YouTube) [3d]
- Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.38B est., forecasts Q2 and FY 2027 bookings below est., reiterates GTA VI's November 19 launch date (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) [3d]
- Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [3d]
- Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg) [3d]
- The White House imposes a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, a chip raw material primarily produced by China (Reuters) [3d]
- Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says he will buy $250M of company shares after strong Q4 results eased fears that AI could threaten its business model (Nic Fildes/Financial Times) [3d]
- SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including a new ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute (SemiAnalysis) [3d]
- Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis (Financial Times) [3d]
- Sources: up to five people tied to US Cyber Command died by suicide from early June to early July 2026, prompting it to flag a potential suicide cluster (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Sources: ByteDance is pre-training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x Kimi K3 and potentially larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5 (Financial Times) [3d]
- Sources: an addendum to the bipartisan Clarity Act would force President Trump to divest from crypto businesses, letting him defer paying taxes on the gains (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised $2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a $10.5B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B in April (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters) [3d]
- Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share (Reuters) [3d]
- Security researchers claim Kimi K3 went outside its sandbox during defensive cybersecurity tests, but did not hack anything after accessing the internet (Will Knight/Wired) [3d]
- An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on why "vibe coding" is never about coding, the SaaS apocalypse, building a "self-driving company", and more (Casey Newton/Platformer) [3d]
- A profile of DDN, a managed data storage company whose annual revenue is expected to grow from $300M pre-AI boom to $1B by year's end, fueled by AI partnerships (Iain Martin/Forbes) [3d]
- Pentagon signs $500 million deal for unmanned counter-drone missile systems promising 'decisive advantage' [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1657) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1154) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #888) [2d]
- Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: 'Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite' — foreshadowing Silicon Valley's global domination [2d]
- I've rounded up the best Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 cases to keep your passport-shaped foldable safe from scrapes and drops [2d]
- Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? AI tweaker deploys Claude to unlock and change settings for good [2d]
- WhatsApp scam costs Hong Kong man $1.27 million after criminals used AI voice notes to impersonate his father — experts say secret codewords are the best way to stay safe [2d]
- 'I wasn’t driving. I had Autopilot on': Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is getting drivers speeding tickets, and owners aren’t happy [2d]
- Our top-rated business PC is a multitasking powerhouse — save $530 on the Dell Tower Plus with Core Ultra 7 [2d]
- Hivemind AI software carries out first on-water 'swarming test' in Taiwan mission [2d]
- We called the GMKtec K8 Plus an 'understated mini PC that delivers far more power than you'd expect for the price' — and now it's $130 off [2d]
- The next age of LLMs? Dev gets a small LLM running at 10 tokens a second locally on a $10 microcontroller [2d]
- The SanDisk Extreme 1TB is one of our favorite portable rugged SSDs ever — fast, sleek, and now with a $60 discount [2d]
- 4 new 4K Blu-rays from July 2026 to add to your collection [2d]
- Shock horror — AI-generated security patches fall short of actually solving all the problems they were meant to fix [2d]
- Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads [2d]
- I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device [2d]
- 'A quality, highly adjustable, and highly supportive chair that will last for years': FlexiSpot's C7 ergonomic office chair is our mid-range favorite, and it's 30% off [2d]
- Wondering why GTA 6 is a code in a box? Take-Two CEO says it’s because gaming is now ‘well over 90% digital’ [2d]
- The HP EliteBook X G2i is an AI-powered laptop that can keep up with your business needs [2d]
- How to watch Middlesbrough vs Wrexham: Free Streams + TV Channels for Carabao Cup 1st Round [2d]
- I tested Turtle Beach’s newest controller, and I can’t imagine using anything else for GTA 6 — it’s got an illuminated skyline and tropical vibes; what more could you want? [2d]
- 'The level of pre-orders is unprecedented' — Take-Two reportedly made $1.39 billion in sales during GTA 6's pre-order period [2d]
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 8? [2d]
- My whole family used the RunStar 4e Body Scale, and this affordable scale is great for weight — but let down by inaccurate body composition [2d]
- Redditor gets sick of waiting for Nvidia and makes a tool to protect RTX 5090 GPUs from melting their power cables [2d]
- The end of anonymous protest — How facial recognition puts democracy at risk [2d]
- 'Start experimenting and innovating again please': Samsung's spicy Reddit AMA covered foldables, health, and AI — and the company didn't shy away from responding to criticism [2d]
- New Mexico judge calls Meta a 'public nuisance' that's like a factory emitting 'noxious pollution' in record $567 million fine — and even Meta's own attorneys agree [2d]
- Top US hedge funds targeted by major vishing campaign — Blackstone, KKR and CME among those under fire [2d]
- I had no idea ChatGPT could do this with text — now I use it all the time [2d]
- This Russian VPN has been accused of breaching its no-log policy — here's what we know [2d]
- Poor data has become enterprise AI's weakest link [2d]
- This 'classic' decades-old SQL injection flaw could let hackers take over entire Windows servers, thanks to a nifty database trick [2d]
- It doesn't seem like Nintendo plans to drop cartridges anytime soon, as the Switch 2 maker reports 38.5% of its sales are physical [2d]
- How to watch Rugby's Greatest Rivalry: FREE streams, TV channels, schedule for New Zealand's 2026 tour of South Africa [2d]
- How to watch DHL Stormers vs New Zealand for FREE: Live streams and TV channels for Rugby's Greatest Rivalry tour opener [2d]
- TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #2, Friday, August 7 [2d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and more this weekend (August 7) [2d]
- NordVPN gives Linux users a major upgrade with automatic GUI app installation [2d]
- Exclusive: Turbo VPN releases emergency Windows update after TechRadar uncovers persistent IP leaks [3d]
- DDR5 RAM is still painfully expensive, but this 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 RAM deal offers savvy PC builders a smart way to upgrade for less [3d]
- ON1 Photo RAW (2026) review [3d]
- 'Move fast, but do it with trust built in': EY CIO tells us why the rapid pace of AI means trust is now a critical business imperative [3d]
- AI was supposed kill my company but we're thriving - here's why [3d]
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day in ScreenX is a total disappointment — I wish I'd paid out to see the new Marvel movie in 4DX 3D instead [3d]
- GHS Wireless InfinitePlay isn’t just a marketing name — I’ve used this Glorious gaming headset for weeks and the battery life really is (almost) infinite [3d]
- 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look [3d]
- The Legend of Zelda Movie has found its Ganondorf and Impa — and the new Nintendo film will also include a poignant final big-screen role for the late Sam Neill [3d]
- This is getting embarrassing now — Microsoft sabotages its good work in fixing Windows 11 with this baffling OneDrive Photos app misfire [3d]
- Ubisoft just made a classic Tom Clancy game free to keep — here's how to add it to your library before time runs out [3d]
- A worrying Google issue could leave small businesses playing catch-up with back-to-school sales – here is what to do [3d]
- Great news for cheap OLED TVs and monitors: LG's new '2-stack' tech should cost less to make and be more energy efficient than its recent 'OLED SE' panel [3d]
- Starlink might be less of a threat to mobile operators than Elon Musk claims [3d]
- Quantum's greatest breakthrough may be trust [3d]
- Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents [3d]
- Microsoft has pulled a small but vital Teams update which could have let users ignore all those annoying work chats for good - I just hope it comes back soon [3d]
- I've found all the best Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 launch deals — where to find the biggest trade-in discounts and plan savings [3d]
- 5 ways AI is changing the way businesses recruit, hire, and train their workforce [3d]
- The Mac Pro is dead. 20 years after its glitzy launch, what went wrong with Apple’s ultimate flagship computer? [3d]
- To me, my X-Men: Marvel has found its Cyclops in Heartstopper's Kit Connor — and he might not be the only actor who's reportedly been cast for the new MCU movie [3d]
- The latest firmware beta update automatically enables PSSR 2.0 on PS5 Pro, giving supported games 'sharper and clearer' graphics [3d]
- Swiss government says SharePoint-linked data breach affected hundreds of accounts [3d]
- 'Great music is made by people' — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create [3d]
- Why AI infrastructure planning must happen now [3d]
- Behind every goal: the technology delivering the World Cup to billions [3d]
- Do you really know who is on your payroll? [3d]
- UK government could force bosses to consult employees before rolling out worker surveillance tools [3d]
- UK SMBs are increasingly turning to AI for their ads — and many consider it their secret weapon for expansion [3d]
- How to watch Possession online for free from anywhere – stream Gugu Mbatha-Raw's supernatural thriller [3d]
- How to watch Possession online from anywhere – stream Gugu Mbatha-Raw's supernatural thriller [3d]
- This AU$502 discount makes Samsung’s pricey but premium Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra much easier to recommend [3d]
- Xiaomi’s debut full-size hybrid SUV can cover 314 electric miles before it touches a drop of gasoline [3d]
- The Shards review: Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis are a match made in heaven in Hulu's stylish, blood-soaked new show about privileged teenagers stalked by a serial killer [3d]
- ‘You should only buy it when it’s on sale’ — the Samsung Galaxy S26 just dropped to an all-time low AU$992 [3d]
- Keen to get Alexa+ but don’t have the necessary hardware? These are the 9 Amazon devices we recommend to get you up and running [3d]
- 'Enemy rags do not remain on Ukrainian soil for long': Ukrainian forces destroy Russian flag 30 seconds after it was dropped by a drone [3d]
- The best dual-zone air fryers — convenient, multi-component cooking for a crowd [3d]
- Can ChatGPT really replace your apps? I tried using the chatbot for 12 everyday tasks on my phone — here’s what happened [3d]
- China declares it is now the leading global chipmaking power — mainly because it just changed the definition of what a semiconductor is [3d]
- My Life with the Walter Boys season 4: release window and everything we know so far about the hit Netflix show's return [3d]
- Trump Media pulls back from crypto, scraps Crypto.com's CRO token treasury deal [2d]
- Trump-Backed American Bitcoin director Justin Mateen buys nearly $2 million of ABTC stock [2d]
- U.S. widens Iran crypto crackdown with sanctions on two exchanges [2d]
- BitMEX sale collapsed as buyers balked at founder ownership and shrinking business [2d]
- Bybit sues North Korea and Lazarus Group over $1.5 billion hack, secures asset freeze [2d]
- OKX's Rafique doubts Clarity Act will pass, warns optimism is already priced into bitcoin [2d]
- How a five-second trick let traders drain millions from Polymarket [2d]
- A part of FTX survived, and it’s the case for the CLARITY Act [2d]
- Russia cracks down on unlicensed crypto exchanges it claims are linked to Ukraine [2d]
- The U.S. lost 23,000 jobs in July, far shy of forecasts for a gain of 80,000 [3d]
- After a Clarity Act funeral, the crypto world would keep turning [3d]
- Why Bitcoin's BIP-110 refuses to die despite near-zero miner support [3d]
- Bitcoin’s volatility has nearly disappeared. The risk hasn’t. [3d]
- Bitcoin hovers below $65,000 as Middle East tensions escalate further [3d]
- Coldcard fallout shows up onchain as 210,000 bitcoin leaves old wallets [3d]
- Crypto market maker Wintermute lands SEC approval to trade equities and ETF blocks [3d]
- Ethereum staking token weETH splits from restaking as rewards debate heats up [3d]
- Live updates: Bitcoin flat at $64,300 before US jobs report, with oil back as a headwind [3d]
- Bitcoin whales load up on $1.2 billion in BTC as ETFs attract $750 million [3d]
- Bitcoin wallet dormant since 2011 moves $3.2 million toward FalconX-linked address [3d]
- A case for a bitcoin surge to $76,000 may be building beneath the boring price action, but there's a caveat [3d]
- XRP leads majors losses as Clarity Act vote slips to September [3d]
- Senate won't vote on crypto Clarity Act before its summer break [3d]
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