The Brutalist Report - tech
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- The new CC, an AI agent built for families [1d]
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- Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art [1d]
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- The current balance of power in open models [1d]
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- The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin [1d]
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- No Sloptober [1d]
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- Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived [1d]
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- LLM Ass Bench [1d]
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- The JavaScript Midlife Crisis [1d]
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- Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS [1d]
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- Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity [1d]
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- The human brain is two separate organs, study finds [1d]
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- A Faster Shortest Path Algorithm [1d]
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- Pentagon: Palantir AI Overreliance Led to Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children [1d]
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- Pentagon: Palantir AI Overreliance Led to Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children [1d]
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- The Curious Power of Punctuation [1d]
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- Explaining to business people why building software is still hard [1d]
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- SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design [1d]
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- Zero-downtime Linux kernel zero-day mitigation via eBPF and SECCOMP [1d]
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- Unreal Agent [1d]
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- An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord [1d]
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- GPT-6 Sol and Luna [1d]
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- 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees [1d]
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- Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent [1d]
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- There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027 [1d]
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- Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster [1d]
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- Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis [1d]
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- Aging may be a program, not a breakdown [1d]
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- Automated optimization of a molecular simulation program [1d]
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- A WordPress vulnerability scored 9.2/10 is present in all versions since 2016 [1d]
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- Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll [1d]
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- Claude Opus 5.5 [1d]
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- Claude Opus 5.5 [1d]
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- Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why [1d]
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- 16-bit Intel 8088 chip by Charles Bukowski [1d]
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- Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring [1d]
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- Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster [1d]
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- How Meta's Muse works, revealed by the 6.8 GB filesystem it sent me [1d]
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- Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor [1d]
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- RAM: the forgotten history (2024) [1d]
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- If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI [1d]
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- Vacate a Drone Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents [1d]
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- OpenAI is about to eat Jev's lunch – Arcturus Labs [1d]
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- Jev – a curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations [1d]
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- Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day [1d]
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- Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy [1d]
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- Quantum information spreading via higher-order operator correlators [1d]
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- Data liberation: Apache Kafka's native cluster mirroring [1d]
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- Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising [1d]
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- Show HN: Drop – a rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support [1d]
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- OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 [1d]
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- The Economics of Open-Weight Inference [1d]
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- Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit [1d]
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- People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI [1d]
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- AI Is Antithetical to Learning [1d]
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- Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models [1d]
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- Training a model to identify AI-generated web content from structure alone [1d]
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- Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs [1d]
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- What Capital Never Told You About Rent [1d]
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- Lazydraw: Terminal ASCII editor for drawing diagrams and sketches [1d]
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- Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin [1d]
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- AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You [1d]
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- Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It? [1d]
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- The mystery animal on an ancient god's head [1d]
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- Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) [1d]
- Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device (Julian Chokkattu/Wired) [1d]
- Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor (Semafor) [1d]
- TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores (Axel Metz/TechRadar) [1d]
- San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (Heather Knight/New York Times) [1d]
- Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse "from scratch" but was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse "OpenClaw for normies" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [1d]
- ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [1d]
- In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a "globalist scheme to control" AI, saying the US is "leading now over China by a lot and everyone else" (Financial Times) [1d]
- Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation (Bloomberg) [1d]
- GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View) [1d]
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [1d]
- Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [1d]
- Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [1d]
- OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 "on most tasks" while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) [1d]
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (Emma Roth/The Verge) [1d]
- Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [1d]
- In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is "officially" renaming AI to "super intelligence" because "artificial" makes it sound fake (Richard Lawler/The Verge) [1d]
- Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A (CTech) [1d]
- Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC) [1d]
- Snorkel AI, which offers an "agentic data development platform" with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters) [1d]
- Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox employees across Halo Studios and other first-party studios, as part of an ongoing "reset" of its gaming business (Tom Warren/The Verge) [1d]
- Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more (John Higgins/The Verge) [1d]
- Sources: after a deadly school strike in Iran, US Central Command changed its targeting process, integrated open-source data, and upgraded Palantir's Maven (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: Xi Jinping is unlikely to bring corporate executives to his DC summit with Trump; industry officials expected them at a dinner with top US tech CEOs (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired) [1d]
- Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors) [1d]
- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he plans to use the UK's upcoming G20 presidency to broker a global AI governance deal, ahead of the UN General Assembly (Politico) [1d]
- Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [1d]
- Australian healthcare AI startup Heidi raised $340M, including a $100M Series C led by Blackbird at a $900M valuation, taking its total funding to $430M+ (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Baselayer, which uses AI to help financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, raised a $35M Series A led by M13, for ~$40M in total funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [1d]
- a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) [1d]
- Cognex agrees to acquire robotics and 3D computer vision company RealSense in a ~$600M deal, including $500M in cash; Intel spun off RealSense in July 2025 (Sophie Shulman/CTech) [1d]
- Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform (CoinDesk) [1d]
- DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Enthusiast transforms Mac Mini into jaw-dropping 3D-printed portable PC complete with handles and touchpad — Mac Nano even has a keyboard and a battery [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, September 23 (game #1703) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, September 23 (game #1200) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, September 23 (game #934) [1d]
- Apple weighs its first server since the Xserve, and as always, Nvidia may hold the key [1d]
- Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2's protagonist is a Yutani employee, which offers 'a new perspective to the franchise' — 'Weyland-Yutani is an English-Japanese speaking company, and the Japanese side doesn't really get explored that much' [1d]
- Mistral denies a fresh security breach, but the code on sale looks a lot like May's leak [1d]
- Cheap big-screen LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday — panel prices are going up [1d]
- Motorola is finally taking on Apple and Samsung with ‘the most advanced smartphone it has ever created,’ the Motorola Signature 27 [1d]
- Cairn and Furi creator’s games are all so different that ‘there’s a chance our next game is an MMO match-3 about friendship,’ jokes creative director, Emeric Thoa [1d]
- Researchers say fields of house-sized buoys capture 90% of wave energy [1d]
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 vs 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6: Qualcomm explains how (and why) its two newest flagship mobile chipsets differ [1d]
- The British Army is spending £16 million on 1,000 small drones in a bid to boost battlefield operations [1d]
- A full EV charging session in 4 minutes? There's a challenger to BYD in the MegaWatt charging game [1d]
- Which DJI Mic should I buy? These are the key differences you need to know [1d]
- 'We just don't see that there's enough technical people in the pipeline': US chip fabs are facing a huge worker shortfall — despite promise of huge paychecks, industry says it still needs over 150,000 workers [1d]
- Trump wants to rename Artificial Intelligence ‘Super Intelligence’ — but something else worries me [1d]
- Talk about catch of the day — Florida fishing charter snags a huge military drone in the Gulf of Mexico, but no one is claiming it yet [1d]
- Save 57% on this Ugreen Nexode 100W four-port GaN charging station [1d]
- Save $160 on this tiny Ryzen 7 Beelink SER8 mini PC with 32GB of DDR5 RAM [1d]
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott and California Governor Gavin Newsom just introduced new data center rules — and it's a big win for local communities [1d]
- Bambu Lab R1 laser cutter and engraver review [1d]
- Blizzard confirms Diablo 5 won't gloss over Diablo's takeover of Sanctuary — 'It's not going to take place entirely off-screen' [1d]
- I've gone hands on with Adobe Premiere's new free Android app — here’s what it’s like to use, and why 'free' comes with a catch [1d]
- More and more workers are feeling stressed at work due to security risks [1d]
- Apple's iOS 27 found to break NordVPN's scam and phishing protection — and it isn't the only privacy tool impacted [1d]
- 'We believe that this IP has a future' — Rayman Legends Retold brand producer wants to continue the series after the 3D remake 'if everything goes according to plan' [1d]
- This RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop is just $1,399 at Walmart today — it's the one I'd personally spend my own cash on [1d]
- I tested ChatGPT against Copilot in Microsoft Word [1d]
- VPN Deal of the Week: NymVPN drops low-commitment price plans – a cheaper way to try out its class-leading mixnet security [1d]
- 'We want to restart the franchise' — Rayman Legends Retold dev on future of the beloved series [1d]
- How to vibe code your first website [1d]
- Microsoft is retiring some key 365 companion apps — Calendar, People, and Files services all set to be cut [1d]
- Christopher Nolan's Memento to receive 4K Blu-ray release with Dolby Vision [1d]
- ‘Hi, it’s AI speaking’: Base44 just launched AI that can handle phone calls [1d]
- This fake LastPass Authenticator app will just shut off your antivirus and leave you open to attack [1d]
- I've spent weeks with the Beats 360 — the design and sound both won me over [1d]
- Sonos Ace Ultra review: more musical, more feature-rich, much improved headphones [1d]
- Sonos Beam Ultra review: one of the best compact Dolby Atmos soundbars around [1d]
- The Blame is on ITVX now — here's what the cast think you should stream next [1d]
- Meta Muse already has a majorly worrying zero-day security issue [1d]
- Cairn creative director explains that the upcoming On the Trail DLC provides 'more variety in the climbing fantasy' — I went hands-on to find out more [1d]
- Amazfit's new solar-powered AMOLED smartwatch aims to rival Garmin [1d]
- If I were buying a desktop PC today, I’d choose this HP OmniDesk with its dark wood design, Core Ultra 7 power, 32GB DDR5-5600 RAM and 1TB SSD storage — and it’s just had a price cut [1d]
- BigCommerce warns customers of potential data leaks following cyber incident [1d]
- The bizarre rise of ‘grandmaslop’ — grandparents are filling family albums with AI images, and their kids hate it [1d]
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