Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot

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.

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