TheRegister
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree
Let's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.…
AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine
Healthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.…
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise
Don't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII – just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. …
'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day
Anthropic's sensitive cubs and roaring cougars commercial trampled OpenAI's offerings in searches and site hit metrics during the Super Bowl, according to ad tracking firm EDO. However, the unknown player ai.com, which pitched the fantastical idea that “AGI is coming,” won the day.…
Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users
Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it recovered nearly all of the more than $40 billion worth of funds it mistakenly handed out to customers as part of a promotional campaign.…
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
It's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler
An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy."…
AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble
If you're running an online business, it helps to own a memorable domain. That's why a wealthy tech exec just paid $70 million to buy the hottest word you can own: AI.com.…
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture
Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters
Carl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.…
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.…
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates
Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.…
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk eyes 'self-growing' Moon city
SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week's second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company has shifted its focus to "building a self-growing city on the Moon" within a decade.…
Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite
European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.…
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere
Taiwan's vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent of the country's semiconductor production to the US, calling the Trump administration's goal "impossible."…
Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout
Brussels has accused Meta of breaking EU competition rules by locking rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, opening the door to emergency action that could force the tech giant to let competitors back onto the platform.…
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.…
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay
European techies looking for the biggest payday are far better off in Switzerland than anywhere else, with average salaries eclipsing all other countries on the continent.…
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers
Brits will soon pay more to legally watch the BBC's output than to subscribe to some of the world's biggest streaming services, after the UK government confirmed the TV license fee will climb to £180 a year from April.…
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend
Brussels is digging into a cyber break-in that targeted the European Commission's mobile device management systems, potentially giving intruders a peek inside the official phones carried by EU staff.…

