Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying “not in my backyard.” This week, Maine lawmakers became the first in the US to pass a statewide moratorium, pausing approvals for new datacenters with a load of 20 megawatts or…
IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google. The search and ads giant tracks the percentage of its users who access its services over IPv6 on a page that The Register has often seen used as a de facto indicator of all IPv6 uptake when we attend networking…
UPDATED More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal. The transition began in November 2025, according to a company spokesperson, when Anthropic began renewing companies under a usage-based plan. In February, the company introduced a single $20-per-employee monthly…
Broadcom’s price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well. Founded in…
Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. Mozilla Foundation subsidiary MZLA, mostly known for maintaining the Thunderbird email client, on Thursday announced the launch of the Thunderbolt AI client, which can tie into German…
A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic’s official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers. The Ox research team says they “repeatedly” asked Anthropic to patch…
Casely first recalled over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pods wireless power banks in April 2025 following 51 reports of their lithium-ion batteries “overheating, expanding or catching fire,” resulting in six minor burn injuries. Both the company and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) are reannouncing the same recall today following 28 additional reports…
YouTube is making some changes that might affect how you share videos from the mobile app. From the app, you can finally share videos from a specific timestamp, which will make it easier to point someone to a part of a video you might want them to see while you’re on your phone. However, this…
I was unsure if my parents would notice that the voice on the other end wasn’t mine — or that it was mine, sort of, but it wasn’t me. The voice said hello, asked my dad how he was doing, and asked again when he didn’t respond quickly enough. “What is that, Gaby?” He realized…
Netflix co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings plans to leave the company after nearly 30 years. The news comes as part of Netflix’s Q1 2026 earnings results released on Thursday, which says Hastings “will not stand for re-election to our Board when his current term expires at the Annual Meeting in June.” After co-founding Netflix in…