The Brutalist Report - tech
- AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud [3d]
- Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts [3d]
- Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M, sprints away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches [3d]
- Exchange update refusenik? Consider yourself warned by Microsoft [4d]
- The state of Right to Repair: Progress made, but key barriers remain [4d]
- Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key [4d]
- What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? [4d]
- Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10% [4d]
- EU and UK weigh options on response to Trump's proposed tariffs [4d]
- Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now [4d]
- Boeing warns of more financial charges due to strikes, costlier parts, and Starliner [4d]
- North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud scheme [4d]
- Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in [4d]
- WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference [4d]
- First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works [4d]
- User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count? [4d]
- China and friends claim success in push to stamp out tech support cyber-scam slave camps [4d]
- Court rules FISA Section 702 surveillance of US resident was unconstitutional [4d]
- Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths [4d]
- Wall Street banks plan sale of X debt at a discount [4d]
- Retro Biosciences, backed by Sam Altman, is raising $1 billion to extend human lifespan [4d]
- UnitedHealth confirms 190 million Americans affected by Change Healthcare data breach [4d]
- In motion to dismiss, chatbot platform Character AI claims it is protected by the First Amendment [4d]
- AI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertainty [4d]
- ElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources say [4d]
- X expands its vertical video feed to global users [4d]
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates ever [4d]
- Waymo lobbyist activity in SF skyrocketed in 2024 [4d]
- Ditching Meta? Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp fundraise on Kickstarter [4d]
- Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venture [4d]
- iOS 18 hits 68% adoption across iPhones, per new Apple figures [4d]
- Neko Health’s unicorn-sized Series B is larger than some Series C rounds [4d]
- The EU wants to talk to US tech companies ahead of Germany’s upcoming election [4d]
- The AI industry’s pace has researchers stressed [4d]
- People are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapes [4d]
- US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban [4d]
- French e-bike startup Angell nears bankruptcy [4d]
- Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy [4d]
- Threads is testing ads in the US and Japan [4d]
- Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity [4d]
- Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity [4d]
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end [4d]
- OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needs [4d]
- Apple admits next-gen CarPlay is late, but still in development [4d]
- Google commits to combatting fake reviews in the UK after 5-year probe [4d]
- Allara lands $26M to expand women’s hormone telehealth [4d]
- Foyer unlocks $6.2M to help people save up to buy homes [4d]
- LG Electronics takes majority stake in Bear Robotics, reportedly valuing startup at $600M [4d]
- Apple introduces a new API to support more in-app purchase formats [4d]
- Apple expands its in-app purchase tools to cover creator experiences, large content catalogs and more [4d]
- US indicts five individuals in crackdown on North Korea’s illicit IT workforce [4d]
- Tata acquires 60% stake in Apple partner Pegatron’s India unit [4d]
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- Over a billion credentials stolen were stolen in malware attacks in 2024 [3d]
- This high-tech piano wants to teach you to play with the power of AI [4d]
- Google Gemini is your new smart home butler [4d]
- NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, January 25 (game #328) [4d]
- NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Saturday, January 25 (game #594) [4d]
- Quordle today – my hints and answers for Saturday, January 25 (game #1097) [4d]
- Buyer beware: Asus' Q-Release Slim feature is reportedly damaging GPUs like the RTX 5090 [4d]
- Universal translators are tantalizing close as Facebook's Meta reveals its tech can translate between 101 languages [4d]
- I just saw Dreame's new robot vacuum with feet, and I'm ready to throw out my Roborock [4d]
- FBI claims North Korean workers are hacking the US companies which hired them [4d]
- QNAP says it has fixed several major vulnerabilities in NAS backup, recovery app [4d]
- AMD RX 9070 gets a rumored March 23 release date, but I’m not buying it (the date, that is, not the graphics card) [4d]
- Everything leaving Netflix in February 2025 [4d]
- Your essential guide to Digital Twins: from basics to benefits - Part 2 [4d]
- Your essential guide to Digital Twins: from basics to benefits - Part 1 [4d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more this weekend (January 24) [4d]
- Palo Alto firewalls have some worrying serious flaws [4d]
- Here's the one thing that Samsung and Google couldn't agree on for the Samsung Galaxy S25 ultra [4d]
- Emilia Pérez’s record-breaking Oscar nominations lead isn’t something I predicted for the Netflix dark comedy [4d]
- Hackers are still using old Ivanti bugs to break into networks [4d]
- Marvel Rivals ranks in order and Competitive Mode explained [4d]
- There’s a hidden Thread radio inside your iPhone 16 and 15 – and Apple’s just explained the 2 key things it does [4d]
- Looks like the Sonos Arc soundbar is being discontinued, and I hope Sonos is making space for something new [4d]
- PayPal fined by New York for cybersecurity failures [4d]
- Samsung just solved the tri-fold naming problem, and I, for one, am relieved [4d]
- Ubisoft reveals Assassin's Creed Shadows PC requirements – and just as I thought, you're safe with your RTX 4000 series GPU [4d]
- Fake Reddit sites found pushing Lumma Stealer malware [4d]
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 surprised me with its world map reminiscent of classic RPGs [4d]
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 8: latest rumors, updates, and what we want to see [4d]
- New Nvidia RTX 5080 benchmark rumor has got me worried that the GPU won't be a major upgrade to the RTX 4080 [4d]
- German cloud service provider exposes entire Georgian country population - millions of personal data files leaked [4d]
- Google TV is testing AI news summaries on the home page, and I can't think of anything I want less [4d]
- CarPlay 2 is officially delayed, but Apple says ‘several’ car makers are still working on it [4d]
- ChatGPT o3-mini will be free for all, and I can’t wait to try the powerful new problem-solving model [4d]
- The first Android 16 public beta is here – and it borrows a key iOS feature [4d]
- 'Apple Watch bands are safe for users to wear' – company responds to class-action lawsuit over 'forever chemical' claims [4d]
- Sony's next flagship headphones leak in official docs, and now I'm getting excited [4d]
- South of Midnight looks absolutely stunning, and it's now got an official release date [4d]
- Trump blasts EU regulators for targeting Meta, Apple and other US tech giants [4d]
- UK CMA opens investigations into Apple and Google mobile ecosystems [4d]
- “Big Brother in your pocket:” Privacy advocates slam UK ID digital wallet proposal [4d]
- First image for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow shows Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El in a place that'll be very familiar to DC comic book fans [4d]
- The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge has been certified with a worryingly small battery [4d]
- Ninja Gaiden 4 is the Xbox Developer Direct mystery game, and is being co-developed by Team Ninja and PlatinumGames [4d]
- The evolution of language from ancient origins to the third wave of Agentic AI [4d]
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