The Brutalist Report - tech
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- FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform (Scott Younker/Tom's Guide) [1d]
- Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management has filed applications to trademark the singer's voice and image, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI (Josh Gerben/Gerben IP) [2d]
- Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Giada Zampano/Associated Press) [2d]
- Apple will let developers offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment starting in May, except in the US and Singapore (Eric Slivka/MacRumors) [2d]
- Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic "claw" tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [2d]
- Renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later this year, show a design nearly identical to Ray-Ban Meta glasses (Alexander Maxham/Android Headlines) [2d]
- Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk) [2d]
- Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial (Wired) [2d]
- Jury selection begins in Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California, with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in attendance (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) [2d]
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- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, April 28 (game #786) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, April 28 (game #1555) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 28 (game #1052) [2d]
- I used the same camera to photograph the moon as the Artemis II astronauts, and it's probably the closest I'll ever get to going into space — but it also showed me I've got a lot to learn about astrophotography [2d]
- Acer ProCreator PE320QXT review: This 6K touchscreen monitor is aggressively priced, but I'd still swap the touch capabilities for an even cheaper display [2d]
- 'The future of the CH-47 Chinook': See the legendary twin rotor morph into a massive drone-swarming mothership [2d]
- 'The death of Top Gun' — Ukraine becomes the first to scale remotely operated interceptors that can score aerial kills from "thousands of kilometers" away while staying in bunkers as era of pilotless dogfighting and zero crew casualties takes to the sky [2d]
- 'The world’s largest untapped frontier': NASA-led startup is replacing $100k-a-day ships with ‘AI-infused’ autonomous robots [2d]
- 'It’s not safe and it’s not easy, but people are drawn to it anyway': Directive 8020's executive producer on why space was the perfect setting for their long-awaited new horror game [2d]
- I tried using ChatGPT to follow The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People step by step — and it made one of the most famous self-improvement systems feel surprisingly simple to put into practice [2d]
- Ulefone Armor Pad 5 Ultra review: A beast of a rugged tablet with the weight to prove it built for punishing environments and DLP projector to boot [2d]
- 'Near-unlimited AI coding for $50': Mini PC bundle gives programmers up to 288,000 prompts over 90 days [2d]
- AI did what? ChatGPT's big upgrade, Google’s plans to make AI invisible, DeepSeek’s return and more of the week’s most surprising developments [2d]
- Neurodivergent teacher uses dyscalculia "superpower" to recreate full-scale, whale-sized replica of world's first programmable digital computer — 21st-century ENIAC used almost 3,000 sq ft of cardboard and NASA's Artemis II may be his next big challenge [2d]
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 2 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer? [2d]
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