The Brutalist Report - tech
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- CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude [1d]
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- Performance of Rust Language [pdf] [1d]
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- Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore [1d]
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- Using AI to write better code more slowly [1d]
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- What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable [1d]
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- Every Frontier AI Is INTJ [1d]
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- Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S. [1d]
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- How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works [1d]
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- Agentic Patterns [1d]
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- Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) [1d]
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- I'm done. I'm f***ing done [video] [1d]
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- Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer [1d]
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- Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files [1d]
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- Ferrari Luce, Maranello's first ever electric car [1d]
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- Reticulum: Source-privacy claim vs. routing metadata [1d]
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- Riscrithm – An intuitive RISC-V assembler and optimizer coded in Go [1d]
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- Jony Ive's Ferrari [1d]
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- A few interesting modern pixel fonts [1d]
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- Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties [1d]
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- Ninth Circuit Panel Goes Out of Its Way to Question Section 230–DOE vs. Meta [1d]
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- Tidy PSU – PD-64 C64 PSU Brings USB PD to Commodore 64 [1d]
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- Hacker News front page as a site [1d]
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- Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality [1d]
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- Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training [1d]
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- A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi [1d]
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- Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" [1d]
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- The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month [2d]
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- Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic [2d]
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- California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash [2d]
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- Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout [2d]
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- The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers [2d]
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- Google facing court for retaliation against Gaza whistleblower [2d]
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- RentFlow (YC S24) Is Hiring [2d]
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- Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing [2d]
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- Founder of 7/11 Japan, Toshifumi Suzuki, has died at age 93 [2d]
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- My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck [2d]
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- Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage [2d]
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- Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK) [2d]
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- The Cost of Safetyism [2d]
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- C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers [2d]
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- Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks [2d]
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- 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update [2d]
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- Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few [2d]
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- Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization" [2d]
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- Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia [2d]
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- In-Browser Container Builds [2d]
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- Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore [2d]
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- Leave Me Behind [2d]
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- I manage teams without a single call [2d]
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- GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 [2d]
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- Thunderbolt vs. USB-C: what the connector hides [2d]
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- Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers [2d]
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- Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) [2d]
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- IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry [2d]
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- Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now [2d]
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- Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff [2d]
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- Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM [2d]
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- If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you [2d]
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- Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) [2d]
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- C array types are weird [2d]
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- Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms [2d]
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- Jira Is Turing-Complete [2d]
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- The Eternal Sloptember [2d]
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- Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game [2d]
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- Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (Bryan Hecht/The Boston Globe) [1d]
- The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (Adi Robertson/The Verge) [1d]
- X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by "programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts" (Lakshmi Varanasi/Business Insider) [1d]
- Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout (Reuters) [1d]
- Report: the EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount as part of a 2025 probe over concerns it favors its own services in search results (Reuters) [2d]
- A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies (New York Times) [2d]
- Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x+ since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference (Tristan Bove/Fortune) [2d]
- How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war (Check Point Research) [2d]
- SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Star Citizen, a video game in development since 2012, has reached $1B in lifetime funding; it remains in alpha and does not have a confirmed release date (Jennifer Maas/Variety) [2d]
- Tether plans to launch GELT, an "official" stablecoin representing the Georgian lari, with the support of Georgia's government in an unusual partnership (Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 (Sophie Shulman/CTech) [2d]
- A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling (Washington Post) [2d]
- In the ~43,000-word text, the Pope urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems and decried "new forms of slavery" of people tending AI systems (Joshua McElwee/Reuters) [2d]
- More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek) [2d]
- Pope Leo XIV presents his encyclical on AI, calling for regulation of AI companies, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (New York Times) [2d]
- Sources: execs from Meta, Google, and Amazon met with Vatican officials in April, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical (Océane Herrero/Politico) [2d]
- A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says "Reid AI" has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024 (Joann S. Lublin/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) [2d]
- A profile of Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem (@bookwormengr) [2d]
- The UK, outpaced by the US and China in AI, is turning to experimental technologies like neuromorphic computing in search of computing sovereignty (Charles Clover/Financial Times) [2d]
- At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 (Nikkei Asia) [2d]
- Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 (Melissa Shin/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [2d]
- How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets (New York Times) [2d]
- Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (Kate Conger/New York Times) [2d]
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- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, May 26 (game #1583) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, May 26 (game #1080) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 26 (game #814) [1d]
- 'Built for the boss': X-Chair's luxury office chair deals have landed for Memorial Day — and these premium seats are well-worth exploring if you want more comfort at work [1d]
- I’ve driven the smallest Kia EV yet and there’s a lot to love about the baby of the bunch [1d]
- 'Security of your network is essential to security of your robot': Industrial robots targeted by malware, which could open them up to hacking — is this how the revolution begins? [1d]
- New 'scareware' attack hits 2.8 million victims, pretending to lock them out of your browser — here’s how you can stay safe [1d]
- I test ThinkPads for a living and these are the best 14-inch business laptop deals for professionals and power users in Lenovo's Memorial Day sale [1d]
- Best Buy's video editing laptop and PC deals end in a matter of hours — and they're packed with DDR5 memory, and RTX 5060, 5070, and 5080 graphics cards that are perfect for content creators [1d]
- FBI warns of Kali phishing scam hitting Microsoft OAuth tokens — warns 'Kali365 lowers the barrier of entry, providing less-technical attackers access to AI-generated phishing lures' [1d]
- How to watch the 2026 American Music Awards online — stream Teddy Swims, Keith Urban performances live from anywhere [1d]
- Amazon’s Memorial Day Lego sale is packed with Star Wars, Botanicals, Art, and Creator set deals – but it's ending soon [1d]
- The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle on HBO Max had Natalia Grace producer 'in tears' after man found naked behind Burger King with total amnesia couldn't remember past — 'I felt like I was never going to be normal again' [1d]
- You think your World Cup TV setup is good? This custom 9.4.4-channel Dolby Atmos home theater was designed for sports, with a unique smart 'Football Mode' and powerful sound that's probably louder than a real stadium crowd [1d]
- Trend Micro users beware - dangerous Apex One zero-day exploited in the wild [1d]
- Save up to $600 on mini PCs from Dell, Geekom, GMKtec, and more in Amazon's Memorial Day sale — I've found a ridiculous number of mini PC deals, but you'll need to be super-fast to get them at this price [2d]
- IKEA living room trends for summer: playful colors and open storage for a welcoming space that's packed with personality [2d]
- 'This is a sales tactic': Experts warn ransomware hackers will often lower their prices - with some giving discounts up to 96% [2d]
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 6 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer? [2d]
- Samsung's 'absolutely stellar M.2 SSD for both professional users and gamers' is just $390 in the Amazon Memorial Day sale — that's a $250 discount on our 5-star 2TB internal SSD [2d]
- Amazon is slashing prices on its most popular and best-selling devices for Memorial Day — here are the 18 best deals I'd buy from $14.99 [2d]
- She handed a repair tech her iPhone and then the worst happened — here's how to protect your data and yourself [2d]
- Amazon's 24 best running shoes on sale for Memorial Day — up to 50% off Adidas, Brooks, Nike, Hoka, and more [2d]
- ‘It succeeds in painting an idyllic picture of vanlife’ — I loved my time in Outbound’s wilderness, but a few bumps in the road made me want to cut my trip short [2d]
- GitHub hit with another major attack — Megalodon hits over 5,000 repos with malware-laden commits [2d]
- Digital spring cleaning is now a frontline defense in the scam economy [2d]
- Save up to $350 on the best 3D printers in the Memorial Day sale — massive price cuts on Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and Anycubic 3D printers including the 'exceptionally good' Centauri Carbon 2 and our top budget pick for beginners [2d]
- The death of the deep dive — why Google’s new AI search wants to do your thinking for you [2d]
- The Dell Memorial Day sale is staggeringly good with up to $600 off laptops and $260 off my favorite business desktop PC — as someone who reviews business hardware, some of these deals feel like a total steal to me [2d]
- The 49 best Memorial Day tech deals worth adding to your cart — AirPods, Garmin, OLED TVs, cheap smart home, MacBooks, and more [2d]
- These retailers have the best RTX 5060, RTX 5070, and RTX 5080 gaming laptop deals this Memorial Day — and yes, they have 32GB of RAM [2d]
- GTA 6 is almost here — here are 7 features I’m desperately hoping for [2d]
- Apple, Samsung, and Google phones are all on sale for Memorial Day — these are the 12 best deals from Amazon, Verizon, T-Mobile, and others today [2d]
- Samsung's Memorial Day TV sale ends today — here are 15 deals worth buying, including up to $1,500 off top-rated 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs [2d]
- 'This technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance': researchers warn you can be tracked and identified from Wi-Fi signals [2d]
- 12 of the best Memorial Day laptop deals — my top picks from Dell, Best Buy, Apple, HP, and Lenovo from $179 [2d]
- ‘An impressive phone that punches above its price’ — I tested the Honor 600 and was blown away by its blazing display, epic battery life, and occasionally uncanny AI [2d]
- 'After one month, most partners have each found hundreds of critical- or high-severity vulnerabilities': Anthropic claims Mythos has found over ten thousand major security vulnerabilities across 'the most systemically important software in the world' [2d]
- Zendesk CLO Shana Simmons: Empathy is the new superpower for AI leaders [2d]
- 5 things Microsoft isn't fixing with Windows 11 that I'd love to see happen [2d]
- Why fiber is the real secret to scaling intelligence in artificial intelligence factories [2d]
- Most ransomware attacks are opportunistic. Here’s how you can stop attackers [2d]
- The new cyber gap is response latency [2d]
- Why self-running agents are creating the biggest security crisis of 2026 [2d]
- This little-known iPhone feature just saved a driver from a 330ft fall — and it could save your life too [2d]
- iOS 27 is tipped to get 3 big upgrades — here's what to expect at WWDC [2d]
- AI is making everyone web app builders - but leaving teams exposed [2d]
- What election polling teaches us about ML-based email security [2d]
- What is the release date for Dutton Ranch episode 4 on Paramount+? [2d]
- AI and education: Strengthening freedom of thought in the battle for truth [2d]
- How to watch Cheese Rolling 2026 live stream – it's *FREE* [2d]
- The TerraMow V1000 robot lawn mower is the perfect wire-free lawnbot for newbies and technophobes [2d]
- Surfshark has dropped an exclusive deal for TechRadar readers just in time for Memorial Day 2026 — here's how to claim your free Amazon gift card worth up to $30 [2d]
- From split-tunneling to post-quantum crypto: NymVPN just had its biggest two-month update yet, and a fresh redesign is already on the way [2d]
- Can you tell a bot from a human online? Surfshark's new experiment says nearly half of us cannot [2d]
- Richard Dawkins renamed Claude ‘Claudia’ and wondered if it was conscious — and that emotionally charged reaction says something profound about modern AI [2d]
- How to watch Rick and Morty season 9 online from anywhere [2d]
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