The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Aikido Code Audit [1d]
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- Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow [2d]
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- Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage? [2d]
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- Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings [2d]
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- How do flocking birds and schools of fish move? [2d]
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- The UK's New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents [2d]
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- Ask HN: Do you find it annoying to share your availability over text/DMs? [2d]
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- Zenzizenzizenzic [2d]
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- Surprising Economics of Load-Balanced Systems [2d]
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- From a 7 KB file to a 13-year backdoor operation [2d]
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- Hide Secrets from AI Agents and NPM install using Airgap [2d]
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- Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023) [2d]
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- Coding a Brick Tower [video] [2d]
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- Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership [2d]
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- 'We created a monster': companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets [2d]
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- Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died [2d]
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- Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times [2d]
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- Big Banana Car [2d]
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- Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good [2d]
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- Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability [2d]
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- John Jumper leaves Google to join Anthropic [2d]
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- A New Bill Takes Aim at Government Pressure to Silence Lawful Online Speech [2d]
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- Court Records Should Be Free [2d]
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- What if Palantir's logo was square? [2d]
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- AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks [2d]
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- Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access [2d]
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- Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics, Atlas humanoid to be used at vehicle plant by 2028 [2d]
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- Proportion-Integral-Derivative Controllers [2d]
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- Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt [2d]
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- GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 [2d]
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- Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle [2d]
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- Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school [2d]
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- Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way [2d]
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- There Are No Instances in ATProto [2d]
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- How many of the 170k English words do you know? [2d]
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- Show HN: Music from every single country on Earth, generated in Esperanto [2d]
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- Leave a Trace [2d]
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- NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission [2d]
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- Banning trade with Israeli settlements in Palestine [2d]
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- From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access [2d]
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- Cocktail Optimization, an Integer Programming Problem [2d]
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- The room the economy can't see [2d]
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- Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel [2d]
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- Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 [2d]
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- Iran Delays U.S. Peace Talks over Israeli Attacks in Lebanon [2d]
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- So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI [2d]
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- The ISA Doesn't Matter Where It Counts [2d]
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- Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment [2d]
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- DARPA Heavy Life Challenge [2d]
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- Fable Converted Pylint to Rust [2d]
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- Let's Encrypt has been down most of today [2d]
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- Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest [2d]
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- Moving Beyond Fork() + Exec() [2d]
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- An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy [2d]
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- GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running It [2d]
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- Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette [2d]
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- Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand [2d]
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- Show HN: Domphy – plain-object UI for tool apps, AI-correctable output [2d]
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- Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to RAM prices (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) [2d]
- DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block) [2d]
- Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation (Reuters) [2d]
- Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December (Erin Woo/The Information) [2d]
- The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Bloomberg) [2d]
- South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary (Reuters) [2d]
- Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was "nice" and "smart" at G7 (Maria Curi/Axios) [2d]
- Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [2d]
- John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize "for protein structure prediction", says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic (John Jumper/@johnjumpersci) [2d]
- ASML says claims that one of its EUV lithography systems has ended up in China are inaccurate, after a report on Howard Lutnick's questions to ASML's leadership (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning (Terje Solsvik/Reuters) [2d]
- Amazon MGM Studios drops Luca Guadagnino's mostly finished movie on Sam Altman; Amazon struck a major deal with OpenAI in February, including a $50B investment (Variety) [2d]
- John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC) [2d]
- Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (Peter Walker/The Guardian) [2d]
- The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Turkey approves Uber's $335M deal to buy Getir's delivery business, tied to a $500M investment pledge in Turkey; Uber is also paying $100M for a 15% Getir stake (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web) [2d]
- Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M+ subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever (Priyanka Salve/CNBC) [2d]
- Sources: Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has reached a ~$9B valuation as it gears up to raise ~$1B in an upcoming Hong Kong IPO (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop) [2d]
- Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge) [2d]
- Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg) [2d]
- The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph) [2d]
- Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (Financial Times) [2d]
- Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (Financial Times) [2d]
- A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16 (Nate Raymond/Reuters) [2d]
- A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push (Financial Times) [2d]
- Avoid roaming charges and streaming geo-blocks at the World Cup with these eSIM and VPN bundles [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, June 20 (game #839) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, June 20 (game #1105) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, June 20 (game #1608) [2d]
- A key US data center law covering security and sustainability is set to lapse worryingly soon, with no sign of a replacement [2d]
- Even after a short time with it, I already know Alien: Isolation 2 will be an incredible horror game — but I really want to see the Xenomorph do one very specific thing this time around [2d]
- Quote of the day by Microsoft co-founder and ex-CEO Bill Gates: 'We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the ten' — insights on the nature of progress [2d]
- How to watch Brazil vs Haiti: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as Vinicius Jnr & Co. hunt first win at FIFA World Cup 2026 [2d]
- Ugreen Maxidok 17-in-1 Dock review: A Thunderbolt 5 docking station with more ports and features than you'll know what to do with [2d]
- 'Our data centers are not going to be just big buildings that are out in the middle of nowhere that are run by 10 people' — US Army thinks it can win over communities over its data centers without a big tech backlash [2d]
- 'Investors suffered damages': Microsoft shareholders file class action lawsuit over its huge increase in AI and cloud spending [2d]
- ‘Feels like a natural breeze’: I reviewed Dyson’s clever purifying fan that follows you around the room, and was blown away by its smart features and wonderfully engineered performance [2d]
- How to watch Scotland vs Morocco: Free Streams & TV Channels online from anywhere for FIFA World Cup 2026 [2d]
- I've driven the Honda Super-N — and I'm in love with this go-kart for the daily drive [2d]
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 game director says the game will have 'massive amounts of customization' — 'There's almost an infinite amount of ways to coordinate with your buds on how you want to kit up as a group' [2d]
- 'We've proven that carbon removal technology can work': Google, Anthropic, Salesforce and others pledge nearly $1 billion on new environmental push [2d]
- LifeLock's 'intuitive and powerful' identity theft protection is highly rated for a reason — LifeLock Advanced can secure your entire family, and it's on sale [2d]
- Dutton Ranch season 2 'deserves to be made' according to one star — confirming Yellowstone spinoff cast is 'waiting in hope' for Paramount+ renewal [2d]
- 16GB 'Bonkers' Xeon PC is back at Newegg for Prime Day with $209 price tag, Nvidia Geforce GPU, 256GB SSD - Is this the best PC deal of 2026? [2d]
- ‘Workers need to be involved in these conversations’: Amazon engineers to be investigated after criticising company’s AI data center buildout – Amazon “may or may not take action based on what we find.” [2d]
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 director says the team 'worked very close' with 20th Century Studios 'to make sure that we were hitting the lore correctly' [2d]
- China's huge OLED screen factory is finally rolling at full speed — and I'm excited about what this means for cheaper OLED monitors and laptops [2d]
- This life-size Koenigsegg just became the fastest drive-able Lego car ever — $5m hypercar recreated from 327,000 Technic elements and sent down Goodwood Hill at 69mph [2d]
- Australia's social media ban shows UK child safety measures are bound to fail — and it's not because of VPNs [2d]
- 'It would be a lie to say there's no pressure taking on this great IP from this massive corporation' — Pico Park president says working with a huge company like Sega for its Sonic crossover was 'a little risky' [2d]
- We spoke to three Xbox Game Studio teams about exclusivity, and got two very different answers [2d]
- How to watch USA vs Australia: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as Christian Pulisic & Co. continue FIFA World Cup 2026 journey [2d]
- Reality check: Could the UK's social media ban lead to VPN restrictions? [2d]
- How to watch Leinster vs Bulls: Live Streams & TV Channels for URC Final 2026 [2d]
- I’m a travel photographer, and this Canon PowerShot is the one compact camera I’m packing for my next city break — plus it's on sale for it's lowest price yet [2d]
- Microsoft warns AI agents are being 'AutoJack'-ed to deliver RCE payloads by browsing untrusted websites [2d]
- DaVinci Resolve Studio 21 review: Pro-grade video editing software with some amazing - and terrifying - AI tools [2d]
- ‘The best looking discs I’ve ever seen’: I’ve picked the top 10 4K Blu-rays I’ve tested in the last two years — including reference-quality discs I use as part of reviewing TVs [2d]
- Why cybersecurity needs hybrid AI, not platform consolidation [2d]
- Security experts reveal Proton is the 'only VPN' to avoid internal tunnel IP fingerprinting on iOS [2d]
- Circumvention tool or essential security software? The shifting role of VPNs in the UK [2d]
- Sugar season 2 dials up the Old Hollywood vibes for a sophisticated sequel — but I would've loved more focus on season 1's big twist [2d]
- Apple users told to watch out for 'unpatchable' iPhone security issues - here's what we know [2d]
- 8 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (June 19) [2d]
- As growth gets harder, AI emerges as the key to MSP success [2d]
- Oukitel WP500 Ultra review: A flagship rugged phone with a unique thermal camera — but also an inflated price [2d]
- Portable air conditioners are already selling out ahead of this weekend's heatwave — here are 12 still in stock (for now) [2d]
- US Conservatives organize ‘Nationwide Day of Protest against the unchecked and unwanted expansion of AI data centers’ – organization pledges to give grassroots Americans “a voice in the critical debate over policies” [2d]
- Dutton Ranch episode 7 recap: don't watch it on Paramount+, just read this — 10 Petal's anniversary story made the most boring choices possible [2d]
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 1 on HBO Max? [2d]
- Sennheiser just entered the cuff-style earbuds space like a wrecking ball, but I think the company's trying to fix a problem that no longer exists [2d]
- 'This almost looks like real footage' — A new look at GTA 6 and Vice City has been revealed and fans are eating it up [2d]
- 'You don't need to be super hardcore to be good at this one' — Pico Park president on bringing Sonic to a whole new audience with upcoming crossover game [2d]
- Apple tipped to launch 6 new iPhones, 2 new wearables, and more in 'biggest product year’ ever — here's the full list [2d]
- 11 powerful fans from £40 to £100 to keep you cool during the upcoming heatwave, from big brands like Dyson and Meaco [2d]
- SSD expert shares some worrying truths about Chinese chip makers — and I think this could be more bad news for the RAM crisis [2d]
- Apple price hikes predicted to be ‘fairly imminent’ — so don't wait on upgrading your Mac, iPad or iPhone [2d]
- From flying chairs to a flood of tempura prawns, the Honor 600 Pro has some absolutely crazy AI video features — but there’s a catch [2d]
- Canon is tipped to unveil multiple world-first lenses this year — these are the rumored RF lenses to look out for, and your chance to vote for your favorite [2d]
- AI traffic to travel sites is booming as shoppers look for the best holiday deal without doing any research [2d]
- New Google Health 5.02 update gets praise from Fitbit fans for being ‘solid work’, but some still say that ‘nobody wants' the AI coach [2d]
- Shadow AI – a step too far, or an opportunity? [2d]
- AI exposes the M&A integration gaps that governance must fix [2d]
- The RAM crisis just killed Nothing’s next budget phone — CMF Phone 3 Pro scrapped as co-founder says ‘we can't build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward’ [2d]
- The Vimeo breach and the dangers of delegated trust [2d]
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 director says making the game four-player is a 'challenge' because there's now 'four times the amount of things that you need to put on screen' — But it 'works better in a PVE game' [2d]
- I know it's basic, but this new Google Calendar feature makes me very happy — and organized [2d]
- Rivals season 2 star on why 'curveball' episode 6 death had to happen — 'it feels into dramatic things happening in the second half of the series' [2d]
- 'It’s the most convenient way to interact with Siri': I asked Apple's senior watchOS team how to use the new Siri AI assistant on an Apple Watch, and why it's not coming to so many older models [2d]
- Premier League Fixtures 2026/27: discover all your team's matchweek schedules and opponents for the new season [2d]
- I'm tracking the 75 best early Prime Day deals worth buying — up to 65% off tech, appliances, TVs, everyday essentials, and more [2d]
- Tired of Google Workspace? Proton thinks it might have the answer, and offers supposedly easy switching too [2d]
- Space as the next network edge: The evolution of global connectivity [2d]
- ‘Clean your air without spending a fortune’: I discover that this Coway air purifier’s tremendous filtering is well worth its low price — as long as you don’t mind its lack of smarts [2d]
- Calling all campers — here are 21 summer-friendly deals on popup, blackout and festival tents [2d]
- I've never been so excited for a coffee maker — the Philips Baristina just got a huge upgrade with an integrated smart steam wand for perfectly foamed milk [2d]
- The enterprise AI gold rush is dead, and most companies aren’t ready for what comes next [2d]
- Britain is betting on AI. Now it needs the network that will run it [2d]
- Kensington SD5010T5 EQ review: This Mac mini-sized dock isn't cheap, but it’s a fully featured Thunderbolt 5 docking station that doesn’t take up much desk space [2d]
- I tested the Circular Ring 2 and wanted to love it, but the software got in the way [2d]
- I found a hidden ChatGPT setting that changes how hard the AI thinks — and the difference surprised me [2d]
- 'We've seen an increase in Blu-ray orders of 10,000%': I spoke to a Blu-ray and vinyl manufacturer about their Blu-ray sales and it's given me even more hope for physical media's survival [2d]
- This tiny AMD PC just ran a massive 397B AI Model that required a server room full of GPUs a year ago [2d]
- 100 days after the Iran war started — Tehran-backed group breaches California Water Service but claims they 'chose not to disrupt water access' [2d]
- T1 phone saga gets stranger as PR team abandons Trump Mobile [2d]
- These crucial Google services on Samsung phones may be waiting for you to update [2d]
- Another US state may require age verification to access social media [2d]
- This new Google TV projector from ETOE can light up your wall and charge your phone [2d]
- Android 17 appears to have broken 5G for some Pixel owners [2d]
- Our favorite early Prime Day 2026 deals and the best of the rest we’ve found so far! [2d]
- Android 17 is messing up some Pixel phones’ touch input [2d]
- Valve’s new Steam Controller is so popular, you might not get one until 2027 [2d]
- Google Search is sending users to DuckDuckGo to avoid AI search results [2d]
- Survey reveals the one Android widget our readers cannot live without [2d]
- FCC is easing drone rules, but DJI drones are still left grounded [2d]
- Watch our Amazon Live stream for the hottest deals on Beatbot gadgets this Prime Day! [2d]
- Gemini in Google Sheets opens up to millions of new users [2d]
- Construction Simulator 3 ($4.99) is free on Android for a limited time, here’s how to get it [2d]
- Samsung just confirmed the Exynos 2700 is coming, and the Galaxy S27 could have it [2d]
- These new AI tools promise better videos, seamless meetings, and richer research [2d]
- Anthropic’s most advanced AI models could be restored shortly following dramatic emergency freeze [2d]
- CrankGPT is a private AI chatbot that’s powered entirely by your hand [2d]
- I gave up on Kindles for this DRM-free e-reader, and I’m never going back [2d]
- Your aging iPhone might be vulnerable to a flaw Apple can’t patch [2d]
- Latest YouTube TV update is making life miserable for some Roku owners [2d]
- I wish I could ditch Gemini for Claude, but there are 4 things stopping me [2d]
- Your next movie night could look very different with these new Philips Hue lamps [2d]
- Apple and Intel will work together to manufacture chips in the US [2d]
- Your Pixel just got a secret new dark mode setting. Here’s how (and why) to use it [2d]
- This all-new OnePlus phone could deliver three days of battery life [2d]
- 4 security upgrades in Android 17 you didn’t know about, but will be glad to have [2d]
- Rising RAM prices claims its latest casualty: Nothing’s next CMF phone [2d]
- This app can translate your favorite games into any language, but there’s a big catch [2d]
- Gemini Live just got more personal with a memory upgrade [2d]
- Samsung’s latest wild idea is a foldable, rollable, brick phone [2d]
- Hate Prime Video ads? Morphe users have found an Android TV workaround [2d]
- Android’s sideloading changes are getting closer as Google shares new timeline [2d]
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