Elon Musk receives FTC greenlight to buy Mesh Optical as interconnects emerge as AI’s tightest bottleneck — the move will expand Musk’s growing stack of critical AI infrastructure

FTC clearance to acquire Mesh Optical hands Musk the missing layer between Terafab’s chips and Gigasat’s satellites, amid tightening interconnect AI bottleneck

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New hack exploits AI hallucinations to trick agents into running malicious code — ‘HalluSquatting’ attack exploits a fundamental weakness in every available model

Attackers can exploit how AI bots hallucinate software URLs to create massive botnets. The vulnerability is endemic to every model.

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AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year, Gartner forecasts
 AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year, Gartner forecasts

Global data center electricity consumption will grow 26% in 2026 to reach 565 TWh, up from 447 TWh in 2025.

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Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers — multiple cases spanning years establish precedent for digital ownership of games, in-game items, and microtransactions

A Reddit user named u/Slawrfp shared on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit that Chinese courts have allowed heirs to inherit games and other digital assets after the original user has since passed on. While Chinese inheritance law hasn’t explicitly covered digital properties, multiple rulings have already set precedent.

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Rapidus fab roadmap examined — first new leading-edge chipmaker in decades has one Hokkaido fab, a 2027 deadline, and 60 potential customers
 Rapidus fab roadmap examined — first new leading-edge chipmaker in decades has one Hokkaido fab, a 2027 deadline, and 60 potential customers

Rapidus is building Japan’s entire return to leading-edge logic on one fab in Chitose, Hokkaido.

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China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism ‘a serious threat’ — Gov’t claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent
 China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism ‘a serious threat’ — Gov’t claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent

China is warning against the use of Claude Code versions released between April and June 2026 after it’s revealed that hidden code is sending sensitive user information to remote servers. The government told users to uninstall the app or use its latest version, despite the fact that the AI tool is not approved for use in China.

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Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company’s firmware allows admin access without a password

CERT/CC has disclosed a critical authentication backdoor affecting multiple Tenda router firmware versions. Tracked as CVE-2026-11405, the flaw grants full administrator access without valid credentials, and no vendor patch is currently available after CERT failed to reach Tenda.

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Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share

Oregon approves the 29.7% price hike that Portland General Electric (PGE), the state’s largest power provider, will impose on users that consume 20MW or more. This move is backed by Oregon’s POWER Act, which helps ensure that data centers in PGE’s coverage area pay their fair share.

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‘Slopfix’ software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65%

A software house known as ‘Slopfix’ has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work.

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Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them

While the use of Windows’ GDID to catch Scattered Spider hacking group member Peter Stokes is unusual, that device identifier is only one bit of telemetry that can be used to fingerprint a user across the wider Internet these days.

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