The Brutalist Report - tech
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- The Religion of Speed [2d]
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- Premier league bans gambling sponsors [2d]
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- The AI Aesthetic [2d]
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- The Absurdity of Albert Camus [2d]
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- Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations [2d]
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- I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals [2d]
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- Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free [2d]
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- Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct [2d]
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- I obtained Claude Opus 5 system prompt [2d]
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- Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident [2d]
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- Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English [2d]
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- A past and future of trade secrets [2d]
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- UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions [2d]
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- Postgres Queues Actually Scale [2d]
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- What Would It Mean to See a New Color? [2d]
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- So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ [2d]
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- Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it [2d]
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- Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents [2d]
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- CodePen 2.0 [2d]
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- We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 [2d]
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- Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 [2d]
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- Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick [2d]
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- Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring [2d]
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- How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality [2d]
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- Toot.community Is Shutting Down [2d]
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- How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America [2d]
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- Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub [2d]
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- Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast [2d]
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- Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels [2d]
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- Show HN: I think I made my own web version of minimalistic audacity [2d]
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- Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up [2d]
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- Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots [2d]
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- The Economic Benefit of Refactoring [2d]
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- Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again [2d]
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- Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? [2d]
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- SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library [2d]
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- Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis [2d]
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- Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures [2d]
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- Hacker Public Radio [2d]
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- Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents [2d]
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- Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others [2d]
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- The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores [2d]
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- Show HN: I audited my AI leaderboard scale – every score dropped 6-15 points [2d]
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- Europe's fires are just the start [2d]
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- Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools [2d]
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- Show HN: Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python [2d]
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- Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 [2d]
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- RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) [2d]
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- 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling [2d]
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- Going beneath NTFS: USN Journal, dfir_NTFS, and artefact-driven investigations [2d]
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- Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery? [2d]
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- OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI [2d]
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- Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? [2d]
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- Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity [2d]
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- How Old Is Ann? [2d]
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- What it means for an API to be RESTful [2d]
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- CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB [2d]
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- Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Robotics/Research Engineers [2d]
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- Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (Anthropic) [2d]
- Sources: Zelenskyy asked Trump to secure Elon Musk's permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia, but Trump was noncommittal (The Atlantic) [2d]
- In a memo to employees, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out priorities for the unit, including returning to player and revenue growth by the end of fiscal year 2027 (The Verge) [2d]
- Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing (Sam Sabin/Axios) [2d]
- The Commerce Dept. signed letters of intent for $874M in CHIPS Act funding in exchange for minority stakes in GlobalFoundries, Kepler, and five other companies (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill) [2d]
- Coinbase reports Q2 revenue down 19% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.3B est., stablecoin revenue below est., and a wider-than-expected loss; COIN drops 6%+ after hours (CNBC) [2d]
- Roblox reports Q2 bookings up 8% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.6B est., DAUs up 10% to 123M, forecasts Q3 bookings and revenue below est.; RBLX drops 13%+ after hours (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Apple Q3: iPhone up 22% YoY to $54.25B, vs. $53.86B est., Mac up 29% to $10.35B, iPad down 6% to $6.19B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 6% to $7.88B (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) [2d]
- Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, and more, grew 12% YoY to $30.74B, vs. $31.36B est.; AAPL drops 4%+ after hours (Todd Spangler/Variety) [2d]
- Apple reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $109.42B, vs. $108.65B est., net income up 27% to $29.79B, and China revenue up 22% to $18.82B (Apple) [2d]
- Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 61% YoY to $805M, vs. $730M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., says search referrals were "choppy"; RDDT drops 6%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [2d]
- Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 37% YoY to $42.2B, above estimates of a 31.21% increase, and AWS operating income up 64% to $16.6B; AMZN jumps 8%+ after hours (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) [2d]
- Amazon reports Q2 ad revenue up 26% YoY to $19.81B, vs. $19.43B est., and subscription services revenue up 12% YoY to $13.73B (CNBC) [2d]
- Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $200.6B, net income up 245% to $62.6B, operating income up 43% to $27.5B, and a $25B+ annual revenue run rate for chips (Amazon) [2d]
- Sources: DeepSeek plans to build a 1 GW data center in Inner Mongolia and aims to bring at least part of its capacity online by the end of 2027 or early 2028 (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet (Carly Page/The Register) [2d]
- At a hearing, a US judge says "I don't see additional evidence" from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk (Maria Curi/Axios) [2d]
- Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late May (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab) [2d]
- Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) [2d]
- OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios) [2d]
- LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [2d]
- Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired) [2d]
- Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB would have let a hacker remotely compromise any of its users; Microsoft has seen "no evidence of customer impact" (Raphael Satter/Reuters) [2d]
- Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days (Financial Times) [2d]
- Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired) [2d]
- Israel-based Xsight, which makes server networking and storage chips, raised $300M led by Fidelity Investments at a $2.8B post-money valuation (Phoebe Liu/The Information) [2d]
- Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $59M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) [2d]
- Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (David Faber/CNBC) [2d]
- London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- Simile, which offers "agentic twins" of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times) [2d]
- Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (Abhirup Roy/Reuters) [2d]
- K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called "EMIB-like", similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique (Qianer Liu/The Information) [2d]
- London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics) [2d]
- Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt visual alterations of locations or infographics (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [2d]
- Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Experts claim the US wants to 'extract IP' from Ukraine's drone industry, mirroring China's tech transfers from Boeing [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, July 31 (game #1649) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, July 31 (game #1146) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, July 31 (game #880) [2d]
- US Army backs giant surveillance balloons with $447m contract despite growing threat from drones [2d]
- 'With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon' — quote of the day by Elon Musk on the rise of machine intelligence [2d]
- I asked Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan what movie makes the best 'companion piece' for the classic sci-fi franchise — and her answer is a stark warning for AI users [2d]
- 'It’s not red, it’s magenta': How ThinkPad designers gaslit IBM to save the iconic TrackPoint [2d]
- This land belongs to you and me — even Willie Nelson is pushing back against data centers [2d]
- 'Underdog' — this is why struggling browser Firefox and Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham football club are now joined at the kit [2d]
- Amazon wants to launch over 5,000 satellites to build new mobile networks [2d]
- I think the Secretlab Atlas is a brilliant office chair — precisely because it’s a terrible gaming chair [2d]
- ‘I just got hacked’ — What Play Store reviews reveal about people's VPN expectations [2d]
- ‘It’s without a doubt one of the least detrimental privacy-focused solutions to your mobile experience’: I spent a month testing GrapheneOS — and it almost made me ditch my Android phone entirely [2d]
- What is the Shared Responsibility Model in cloud security? [2d]
- ‘OLED better watch its back’: LG’s C6 OLED TV is one of the best I’ve tested this year, but when I put it side-by-side with the Sony Bravia 7 II RGB TV, the close battle shocked me [2d]
- Final Fantasy 14: Evercold will revitalize the long-running MMO with all-new content and gameplay features — here are the top three things I can't wait to try [2d]
- Microsoft introduces its first agent-powered cybersecurity model and Project Perception AI patching system - can it avoid making the same mistakes OpenAI made? [2d]
- 'I often compare AI to an exceptionally talented intern': How web agencies can scale value beyond the time-based model [2d]
- 'Curling irons can be just as healthy as air styling' — I chatted to a major haircare brand founder about the styling mistakes we're all making [2d]
- The biggest data leaker is probably not who you think it is [2d]
- Can Big Tech's 2030 climate goals survive the AI boom? [2d]
- I tested the 7 best AEO tools & here’s the one I'll use every day in 2026 [2d]
- Data center operators must take local populations seriously to succeed [2d]
- 'Maybe laziness is the best way to improve the technology' — I chatted to a lawnbot exec about the tech and trends taking robot mowers mainstream [2d]
- Why access to power will determine the winners and losers in the AI race [2d]
- Control Resonant lead gameplay designer isn't worried about the game launching so close to GTA 6, says 'it's not really been a big consideration for us' [2d]
- Q Acoustics' handsome 3040c floorstanding speakers are cheaper than most rival bookshelf buys, and a thorough testing reveals a poised, clear, balanced listen [2d]
- ChatGPT’s first answer is usually the most boring — here’s how I get better ones [2d]
- I tested the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P for a whole month — here’s why adding a second portrait lens to a vlogging camera is as big of a game changer as it was for phones [2d]
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