{"slug": "turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot", "title": "Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot", "summary": "An open source robot project lets users turn their home into a giant crane game, according to The Register. The Register's coverage places the project alongside its AI, Infosec and FOSS sections, which also reported that on-prem server sales for HPC and AI rose 20% this year and that Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this yearFirms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales\n- \n#### Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM pricesCustomers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches\n- \n#### Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power stationBut first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer\n- \n#### Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17BRevised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue\n- \n#### Marvell wants to be a copper topper, bets $115B on photonics leader to push optical networkingIP house believes optics demand is going to explode as Nvidia and others eye bigger systems\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktopVery nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too\n- \n#### Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hiddenOpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale\n- \n#### AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OSCombining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland\n- \n#### Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core DesktopCanonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing\n- \n#### Systemd adds support for RustWhat's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!\n- \n#### FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releasesDaemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/04/turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot/5307628", "published_at": "2026-11-04 18:35:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-04 18:51:58.499877+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["The Register", "Anthropic"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turn-your-home-into-a-giant-crane-game-with-this-open-source-robot.jsonld"}}