Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start

Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028, with an option on another 600MW by 2030 that would take the order close to a gig [...]

The US will ask the G20 not to build anything to govern AI

The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Ca [...]

X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a res [...]

A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the [...]

Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week

Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states r [...]

Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs

John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his las [...]

Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple

Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday’s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the [...]

Waymo opens driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa

Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system’s weather envelop [...]

Toyota’s FSD-Like System Arrives In 2028, But The Driver Stays Liable

Toyota will put a rival to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving on its 2028 models and sell it as “Level 2++“, a marketing label that keeps the driver in charge, with a guardrail layer over the neural netw [...]