The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) [1d]
- British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs "on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks" (Xiaomi) [1d]
- Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+ (Maureen Farrell/New York Times) [1d]
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight (Nichola Groom/Reuters) [1d]
- Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ (Bloomberg) [1d]
- OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances (OpenAI) [1d]
- Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models (The Information) [1d]
- OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but "fully autonomous RSI is not happening today" and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely (OpenAI) [1d]
- Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems (Maria Curi/Axios) [1d]
- Intel, AMD, and Arm shares soar on potential CPU demand sparked by the popularity of Meta's Muse; INTC jumps 12%+, AMD is up 8%+, and ARM 15%+ (Adam Clark/Barron's Online) [1d]
- ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as "2.333%" of Cl0p's net worth (Alexander Martin/The Record) [1d]
- The EU proposes rules requiring data centers with a capacity of 500+ kW to disclose their energy and water efficiency using an EU-designed labelling system (Kate Abnett/Reuters) [1d]
- SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens (xAI) [1d]
- Review of Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation (Federico Viticci/MacStories) [1d]
- NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [1d]
- Z.AI open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent (Laurie Chen/Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot "teammates", and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse (The Information) [1d]
- Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, new AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) [1d]
- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident is "the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents" (Yash Roy/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more (Bloomberg) [1d]
- An interview with Google SVP of Devices Rick Osterloh on Googlebooks, which he calls "the ultimate focusing move" for Google, future Pixel Googlebooks, and more (David Pierce/The Verge) [1d]
- Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times) [1d]
- MediaTek unveils the Dimensity CX C10 Max, a 3nm TSMC N3 flagship SoC launching alongside Google's new Googlebook lineup, with an 8-core CPU and 11-core GPU (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware) [1d]
- Googlebook hardware hands-on: Intel Core Ultra Panther Lake or Qualcomm Snapdragon X/X1 Elite CPUs, 16GB to 64GB of RAM, high-resolution OLED displays, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET) [1d]
- Googlebook OS hands-on: core services like Gmail run as Trusted Web Activities via the Play Store, on-device AI via Gemini Nano, and Pixel-aligned UX elements (Abner Li/9to5Google) [1d]
- Google's Googlebook OS, built on Android with a Material 3 Expressive and ChromeOS hybrid UI, offers deep Android 17 integration, 10 years of support, and more (Dominic Preston/The Verge) [1d]
- Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: incredible benchmark scores, high base memory, and a generous number of ultra-fast Thunderbolt 5 ports, but very expensive (Steve Dent/Engadget) [1d]
- Mac mini (late 2026) review: strong M6 performance, faster storage over the M4, and small footprint, but pricey storage and memory erode its value proposition (Brandon Hill/Tom's Hardware) [1d]
- Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices built by Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android and AI integration, starting at $899 (Abner Li/9to5Google) [1d]
- Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to launch a $30M ad blitz against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race, after the Clarity Act failed (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) [1d]
- Researchers can make headphones leak audio through a wall, but the 30-meter claim has a few caveats [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, September 22 (game #1199) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, September 22 (game #1702) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, September 22 (game #933) [1d]
- Hackers are hiding malware on blockchains that are nearly impossible to take down, and unrestricted AI models have pushed these attacks up 440% [1d]
- Huawei Ascend 960 SuperPoD aims to surpass Nvidia AI hardware in China — 960E with over 4,000 NPUs and an upgraded UnifiedBus Interconnect aims for 10 trillion parameters [1d]
- This NATO-backed drone AI picked its own target and struck it, but relied on a human-drawn map to do so [1d]
- A new lithium-ion battery breakthrough could lead to cells that deliver more power for longer — they might be useful for everything from EVs to gaming laptops to robots to drones [1d]
- 1.58-million-staff Amazon will soon have more Nvidia GPUs than employees — AWS to buy more than 3 million additional chips before 2029 in addition to thousands of existing H100, H200 [1d]
- Amazon's best-selling 3D printer just crashed to a record-low price — the Bambu Lab P1S is now under $500 [1d]
- Microsoft, Google took down $66 million cybercrime marketplace that sold virtual machines with free software [1d]
- What shoes do marathon winners wear? These 7 pairs of running shoes have all graced the podium at the world's top races [1d]
- E-waste from AI boom and building data centers could stretch six times around the Earth by 2050, report warns [1d]
- Hackers find huge security flaw in Flock’s surveillance cameras and extract 1.6 million images and 27,000 videos from just one device — and the company’s terrible reputation means many employees are looking to jump ship [1d]
- People are using ChatGPT for much more than writing and research — these are the 7 ideas I want to steal [1d]
- Cybercrime civil war brewing? ShinyHunters reportedly hacks Cl0p ransomware gang and threatens further damage [1d]
- The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a clever feature to avoid problems with its larger battery that might become the new normal — here’s what you need to know [1d]
- The Apple Watch 12 just got its first-ever discount at Amazon — see why Apple calls it an ‘ultimate device for a healthy life’ [1d]
- The Insta360 Link 2 Pro is genuinely one of the best webcams I've ever reviewed—but the high price may turn away some potential buyers [1d]
- Someone used this Spotify tool to cheat and preview their Wrapped 2026 summary, and I tried it out and it works — but there’s no way I’d do it again [1d]
- NymVPN’s massive new update adds one-click connections, advanced split tunneling, and fresh pricing [1d]
- Microsoft finally fixes this annoying Excel paste problem, but you probably never even noticed [1d]
- Our favourite free graphics suite gets supercharged as Canva's Affinity gets a flurry of upgrades in a bid to rival Adobe [1d]
- Think you know your Modern Warfare? Test your knowledge ahead of the next game with our Call of Duty quiz [1d]
- I really wanted to love the new Dell XPS 13, but Dell, we need to have a serious chat about your RAM choices [1d]
- Outlander: Blood of my Blood season 2 episode 1 star on 'unsettling' opening scene that you won't have seen coming — 'it was exhausting to film' [1d]
- ‘The US is now better positioned to compete’: How new drone tech tariffs are bolstering domestic production and securing supply chains [1d]
- North Korean 'Contagious Interview' gang hits 30,000 businesses across the world with malware following fake interviews [1d]
- MSI Cyborg A15 creative laptop with Ryzen 7 performance, RTX 5060 graphics and upgradeable DDR5 memory gets a $250 price cut at Newegg and I can't find it cheaper anywhere else [1d]
- 'Never have I experienced such a Windows-esque bug in macOS': Mission Control is a mess in macOS 27 Golden Gate — and users are questioning Apple's testing [1d]
- This TP-Link Deco Wi-Fi 7 mesh system eliminates internet dead zones with speeds up to 4.3Gbps [1d]
- How to watch England vs Sri Lanka 2026 ODI Series: Live Streams, Tickets, Schedule & Preview [1d]
- Amid soaring RAM prices, Corsair knocks $99 off this 32GB DDR5 SODIMM kit in its massive memory sale [1d]
- Meet the Googlebook — I tried Google's new answer to the MacBook that combines ChromeOS with Android, and this could be the start of something big [1d]
- How to watch The Great British Bake Off season 17 for *FREE* — stream GBBO from anywhere as Nigella Lawson enters the tent [1d]
- Tesla is taking $50k deposits for its next-gen Roadster that nobody's even seen yet — so here's your reminder that it never actually produced the last Roadster it took $50k deposits for [1d]
- Microsoft Teams is finally boosting security controls to let admins block custom file extensions [1d]
- Vivo X500 Pro Max revealed — here are my favorite photos taken with the potentially iPhone-beating flagship camera phone [1d]
- ‘Rethinking the laptop is a big undertaking’ — why Googlebooks are so much more than overpriced Chromebooks, and why Apple should be worried [1d]
- Backcountry's 'up to 70% off' flash sale ends today — here are 17 outdoor deals I'd snap up right now [1d]
- The Wargame uses AI-generated footage to simulate Russian missile attacks on UK soil in shocking new Sky TV documentary series — 'this is not real, but it could be' [2d]
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