The Brutalist Report - tech
- Humane’s AI Pin is dead, as HP buys startup for $116M [2h]
- Trump admin reverses hydropower layoffs that sparked grid stability fears [4h]
- Google Play Books purchases on iOS now skirt the App Store’s commission [4h]
- Duolingo ‘killed’ its mascot with a Cybertruck, and it’s going weirdly well [4h]
- Elon Musk staffer created a DOGE AI assistant for making government “less dumb” [4h]
- Apple purges apps without contact info from EU app store, as DSA deadline hits [4h]
- Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B [5h]
- Amazon, Microsoft, and Exxon want to make scandal-plagued carbon markets more trustworthy [5h]
- Thinking Machine Labs is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup [6h]
- Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup [6h]
- VC giant Insight Partners confirms January cyberattack [6h]
- Fintech fundraising is giving me 2021 flashbacks [7h]
- Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI [7h]
- Facebook now only stores live videos for 30 days, will delete old broadcasts [7h]
- Amazon kills ‘Inspire,’ its TikTok-style feed for discovering products [7h]
- OpenAI may give board special voting rights to ward off takeover attempts [7h]
- Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers’ passwords [7h]
- The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe [8h]
- X challenges German court order granting data access to election researchers [8h]
- Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference [8h]
- Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option [9h]
- Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC [10h]
- Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI [11h]
- Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers [11h]
- As US newspaper outages drag on, Lee Enterprises blames cyberattack for encrypting critical systems [12h]
- No new articles in the last 24 hours.
- HP acquires Human Ai and gives the AI pin a humane death [1h]
- In a test, 2000 people were shown deepfake content, and only two of them managed to get a perfect score [2h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, February 19 (game #1122) [3h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, February 19 (game #353) [3h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, February 19 (game #619) [3h]
- An obscure French startup just launched the cheapest true 5K monitor in the world right now and I can't wait to test it [4h]
- US military and defense contractors hit with Infostealer malware [4h]
- Robot abuse is still the path to the future – even if I hate it [4h]
- No, it's not an April fool, Intel debuts open source AI offering that gauges a text's politeness level [5h]
- 'I would revisit them, absolutely': Lee Child discusses future seasons of Reacher on Prime Video and why returning to the films as a TV series is a possibility [5h]
- Windows 11 24H2 hasn’t raised the bar for the operating system’s CPU requirements, Microsoft clarifies [6h]
- I am once again alerting you to a PS5 Slim 30th Anniversary restock text message that's doing the rounds - check your phones [6h]
- Fancy a drone destroyer? Someone transformed a Framework 16 laptop into a UAV killer thanks to a custom SDR module [6h]
- OpenSSH vulnerabilities could pose huge threat to businesses everywhere [7h]
- ExpressVPN's Aircove becomes the first device equipped with Lightway 2.0 – and the upgrades don't stop there [7h]
- Fortnite: Lawless gets first trailer highlighting the new season's battle pass roster and the chaos of Crime City [8h]
- Xerox printer security risk could let hackers sneak into your systems [8h]
- As if Nvidia's RTX 5000 series launch couldn't get messier, now a Redditor has received the RTX 5070 Ti days before its launch [8h]
- McIntosh's gorgeous DS200 streaming DAC is here, thus completing the nonpareil hi-fi system of my dreams [8h]
- Help, I think Spotify is making me boring! And it's all AI's fault [8h]
- US utility giant says MOVEit hack exposed stolen data [8h]
- Fortnite is adding Sub-Zero next season, finally becoming the first game where Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat is possible [9h]
- Apple better not forget that the iPhone SE 4 is a 'Special Edition' or I’ll be very disappointed [9h]
- Enterprises aren’t aligning AI governance and AI security. That’s a real problem [9h]
- New Golang malware is hijacking Telegram to help itself spread [9h]
- No new articles in the last 24 hours.
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