The Brutalist Report

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• 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud [7h]
• Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' [10h]
• Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck [11h]
• Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer [11h]
• Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app [12h]
• NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit [13h]
• ZTE and China Telecom Guangdong advance cross‑vendor IP network simulation pilots, paving the way for intelligent network operations [13h]
• The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale [13h]
• Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed [13h]
• Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave [14h]
• KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close [15h]
• AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease [16h]
• Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows [16h]
• India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam [17h]
• FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI [18h]
• Transport for London keeps Capita behind wheel of road charging ops in £912M extension [18h]
• Oracle support timelines for Fusion Middleware tighter than expected [19h]
• UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service [20h]
• RoachFest London 2026: The database as competitive asset [20h]
• Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day [21h]
• Welcome to your new telco job – here's sudo access to a database with full customer info stored in the clear [21h]