# Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot > Source: > Published: 2026-11-04 18:35:00+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - #### 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 - #### 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 - #### 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 - #### Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17BRevised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue - #### 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 ### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security) - Security #### 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! - Security #### 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 - Black 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 - Security #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified - Malware 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 ### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS) - #### Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktopVery nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too - #### Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hiddenOpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale - #### AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OSCombining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland - #### 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 - #### Systemd adds support for RustWhat's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd! - #### 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