The Brutalist Report - tech
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- The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America [2d]
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- Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states [3d]
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- World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world [3d]
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- Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse [3d]
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- Mark Zuckerberg's Yacht Refused to Help Ship in Distress [3d]
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- Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status [3d]
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- How Claude marks AI-generated content [3d]
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- We cut a 40-day financial integration down to 5 days using Google Anti [3d]
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- Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution [3d]
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- In Japan, 'calf hair harassment' exposes gender-based appearance conflicts [3d]
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- Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor [3d]
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- Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us [3d]
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- Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification [3d]
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- Show HN: My solar died for 6 months, so I built a watchdog [3d]
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- Attacker Takes over Zoom AI [3d]
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- Rust SIMD on the GPU [3d]
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- Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox [3d]
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- Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities [3d]
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- CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them [3d]
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- Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots [3d]
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- GPT 5.6 Cyber [3d]
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- Someone hacked the X algorithm and made a master guide on how to use it [3d]
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- Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers [3d]
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- What's the best programming language for coding agents? [3d]
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- Why Addresses Have Numbers [3d]
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- Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt [3d]
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- GLP-1 drugs linked to bigger jump in women’s employment than a college degree [3d]
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- Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline [3d]
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- Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition [3d]
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- The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons [3d]
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- Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years [3d]
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- Show HN: MergeImage – Merge and stitch images locally in the browser [3d]
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- Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11 [3d]
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- Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia [3d]
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- Force-Fed by ICE [3d]
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- OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over $300 [3d]
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- Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's [3d]
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- Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human [3d]
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- Itadakimasu: A Word You Say to the Food, Not the Cook [3d]
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- 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows [3d]
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- Sea Lion Radio brings Seattle's barks, bleats and yaps to the world [3d]
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- Smooth Move: Taming Trajectories with Polynomials [3d]
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- Oil giants face backlash as Iran conflict fuels multi-billion-pound profits [3d]
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- Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints [3d]
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- Felix and I [3d]
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- OpenAI's letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas [3d]
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- Every Company Needs a Cassandra [3d]
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- There Is No "Done": Reflections on a Completed at Thru-Hike (2022) [3d]
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- Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines [3d]
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- Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models [3d]
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- The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich [3d]
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- China is now the world's greatest oil power [3d]
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- AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power [3d]
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- Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb [3d]
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- Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" [3d]
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- Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths [3d]
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- Defending my own brain against enshittification [3d]
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- Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015) [3d]
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- From 13.5M installs to 499 active devices [3d]
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- 50k Boat Names [3d]
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- Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app [3d]
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- DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years [3d]
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- Antiqua–Fraktur Dispute [3d]
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- Squeak/Smalltalk 6.1 Release Notes [3d]
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- Discrimination lawsuit involving converted Jewish employee settled by Apple [2d]
- New in iOS 27 beta 5: 'Before Searching' settings, updated app icons, more [3d]
- Apple preps beta security updates for iOS 18, iOS 26, and macOS 26 [3d]
- Kuo pours water on rumor of $1B Apple chip stockpile at TSMC [3d]
- Fifth developer betas of iOS 27, macOS 27 land as testing continues [3d]
- Photo leak backs up massive iPhone 18 Pro Max battery rumor [3d]
- Flight tracking poster, Schlage Sense Pro review, & more on Smart Home Insider [3d]
- Generative AI needs ethical leaders and to be controlled like nuclear power [3d]
- Friday Night Baseball season will stream key games live in Apple Immersive [3d]
- Dark Cherry iPhone 18 Pro is still a rumor mill favorite [3d]
- Apple tested Chinese memory chips for the Mac, rivals shipping [3d]
- B&H is blowing out M4 15-inch MacBook Air inventory at $1,279 [3d]
- Jefferies cuts AAPL target to $263.66, downgrades to Underperform [3d]
- iMacs with OLED screens now predicted for 2029 [3d]
- Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment (Financial Times) [2d]
- Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase (Claude/@claudeai) [3d]
- With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his "open" AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at much lower cost (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) [3d]
- Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation (The Information) [3d]
- Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but "unexpectedly" made strides on a related problem (Anthropic) [3d]
- The Ninth Circuit dismisses Meta's bid to pause a landmark trial by state AGs alleging its products addict children and have caused a youth mental health crisis (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg) [3d]
- YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (Financial Times) [3d]
- OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models (OpenAI) [3d]
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative (Sam Sabin/Axios) [3d]
- Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica) [3d]
- A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [3d]
- Sources: officials say OpenAI risks its White House relationship by hiring Dean Ball, who has criticized Trump's AI strategy after leaving the administration (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post) [3d]
- Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda is selling a $917M leveraged loan to finance the purchase of GPUs as part of a contract with Nvidia (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Tel Aviv- and San Francisco-based Corma, which develops AI models for defensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with a $60M seed led by Sequoia Capital (Emily Forlini/Fortune) [3d]
- As Waymo expands its fleet from 700 in 2025 to nearly 4,000 now, recalls and edge-case failures like flooded roadways and a San Francisco power outage mount (Emmy Martin/New York Times) [3d]
- AI agents are moving online course cheating beyond chatbot-written essays via commands like "log in and complete my quiz"; major chatbots did not refuse prompts (New York Times) [3d]
- Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as September, and is negotiating with TSMC to make 300K+ in 2027 (The Information) [3d]
- Analysis: the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is set to have a bill of materials cost ~38% higher than the iPhone 17 Pro due to memory prices; memory's BOM share hits 34% (TrendForce) [3d]
- Anthropic, Macquarie, and Singapore's GIC form Theseus Infrastructure to develop AI computing sites; Anthropic will cover consumer electricity price hikes (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, adding to support for PayPal and Cash App (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Intel announces a $15B common stock offering, with proceeds going to general corporate purposes like "maintaining a strong balance sheet"; INTC falls 3%+ (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Better coffee — and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders [2d]
- Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #1157) [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #1660) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #891) [3d]
- 3D-printed drones built on a US Navy ship for the first time, potentially opening a whole new world of possibilities for future warfare [3d]
- 'It's Stalin's dream' — Quote of the day by software pioneer Richard Stallman on the tracking capabilities of cell phones [3d]
- I asked Gemini if my chicken salad was still good: it saved itself and my stomach [3d]
- The US government wants to make it easier to build and launch floating nuclear reactors, 'unleashing American energy dominance' [3d]
- What you need to know about your hearing health and wired earbuds, and why this Kickstarter campaign emphatically gets my backing as someone who tests IEMs [3d]
- SpaceX is spending $16.8 billion on a Texas chip fab Musk says will be '50 times the size of the Pentagon' [3d]
- TSMC reportedly has $1 billion of Apple chips awaiting delivery of DRAM — will this be what powers the iPhone 18 Pro? [3d]
- 'It's not an OLED-killer yet': I tested Hisense’s affordable RGB TV, and while I like its picture quality and performance, it surprisingly falls short in the area I had the highest hopes for [3d]
- House of the Dragon season 4: release window, possible cast, story predictions, and more on the HBO Max show's final chapter [3d]
- Cloudflare chief says humans will soon be 'a rounding error on the Internet' as bot traffic takes over — so what is it doing to combat this? [3d]
- How to watch FEI World Championships 2026: free live streams, TV channels, schedule [3d]
- What is the release date for X-Men '97 season 2 episode 9 on Disney+? [3d]
- Microsoft reportedly pours fuel on PC pricing flames as it implements a 'significant increase' for Windows 11 licenses [3d]
- Alienware 15 (2026) review: exceptional performance at a remarkable price... just ignore the single-channel RAM [3d]
- 'Everyone who bought this game should be eligible for a full refund': A digital-only Nintendo Switch game just became unplayable for those who paid for it — showing exactly why gamers are rebelling against Sony's disc-free PlayStation plans [3d]
- We spend £1.6bn a year on subscriptions we don’t want — fast tracked UK Government policy promises to make cancelling them easier, and will make ‘phoney bargains’ illegal [3d]
- Lenovo Legion 5i is a huge $700 off with a gorgeous 165Hz OLED display and plenty of power for business, college, and creative work — and it comes with free Microsoft 365 Personal [3d]
- I compared the iPhone Ultra's rumored screen sizes to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: which of these foldables would you rather buy? [3d]
- Best RAM deals 2026 — We're tracking the top DDR4 and DDR5 price cuts to survive the RAMpocalypse [3d]
- Top US defense device maker IEH Corporation admits hackers broke into its systems [3d]
- Why business leaders need to take quantum seriously [3d]
- I thought asking an AI agent to book a gym class was harmless, then I saw what happened if you ask Claude and OpenClaw to ‘move me to the top of the list’ — now I’m adding one safeguard to every agent prompt [3d]
- RAM prices are still brutal, but you can save on the 32GB V-Color Manta XSky DDR5-6000 kit with Newegg's special coupon [3d]
- Age verification failed. Regulating VPNs won't fix it [3d]
- US healthcare software giant Unlimited Technology Systems admits hackers may have stolen sensitive data of 3.8 million people [3d]
- Samsung patches nearly 200 security issues on its phone hardware - here's what you need to know [3d]
- Why AI-powered jobsite intelligence is key to maximizing construction productivity [3d]
- My favorite budget clip-style open earbuds have a successor which solves two major problems with these designs [3d]
- Why wait for the Garmin Fenix 9? Here are 10 top-tier adventure watches you can buy right now — for (probably) less money [3d]
- What is the release date for Ted Lasso season 4 episode 2 on Apple TV? [3d]
- Levi's reveals security tear may have let hackers steal important corporate data [3d]
- Spotify quietly added a button to skip ads in podcasts, except for its own promotional content — and it’s sparked widespread concern for the future of podcasting [3d]
- Windows 11's RAM-hogging, advert-laden Weather app is the poster child for everything that's wrong with the operating system [3d]
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