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US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds
The US has overtaken China in the construction of new gas-fired power plants for the first time in decades, driven by a surge in datacentre building to meet artificial intelligence demand, according to a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor. The shift matters because it undercuts claims by Donald Trump and his administration that China’s…
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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, has issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into an incident last month in which one of its AI agents allegedly broke out of a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company via Hugging Face. The inquiry will examine whether OpenAI’s safety practices breached state consumer…
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Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads
Cybercriminals are running a malvertising campaign that tricks Mac developers into installing malware disguised as OpenAI’s Codex coding tool. Researchers at Cato Networks found sponsored Google search results directing users searching for Codex on macOS to a convincing fake download page hosted on Google Sites, which instead of providing an installer instructs victims to paste…
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Who is taxi driver Bhart Bhushan, the CEO behind developer’s staggering $3.6billion collapse – but is still building a luxury compound in western Sydney…and just shattered the dreams of 25,000 families?
The Bathla Group, a Sydney property developer run by Bhart Bhushan and his brother Rajinder Mohan, has entered voluntary administration, leaving up to 25,000 homes in limbo and putting roughly 500 jobs at risk. Mr Bhushan, who founded the company in 1997 after working as a taxi driver, blamed a “perfect storm” of weaker sales,…
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Federal MP accused of assault is charged with breaching bail after allegedly going to the cricket
Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has been charged with breaching his bail conditions after allegedly attending a Test cricket match in Darwin, adding to legal troubles stemming from an earlier assault accusation. He was originally arrested on 30 July over an alleged assault on Northern Territory administrator David Connolly at a Thai cultural festival on…
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A Pocket Full of Slagford – a retro-futurist take on Thatcher-era northern England
A New Zealand-based artist, Patrick Grant, is developing A Pocket Full of Slagford, a retro-styled 3D puzzle adventure game set in a surreal, near-future version of northern England still gripped by Thatcherism. Grant, who was born in Australia and has never actually lived in the north of England, drew his inspiration from British television he…
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HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp
HM Revenue & Customs has begun the procurement process for a new contract to run and modernise its National Insurance and PAYE System (NPS), with the deal potentially worth up to £500 million over as long as seven years. The move matters because NPS is critical national infrastructure, handling a significant share of UK tax…
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Lego sales rise as World Cup and F1 ranges prove to be winners
Lego’s sales have jumped by more than a fifth in the first half of 2026, boosted by tie-ins with the football World Cup, Formula One and the film KPop Demon Hunters, alongside popular flower-themed and Star Wars sets. The Danish toymaker’s strong performance reflects a wider resurgence in the toy market, with adult “kidult” buyers…
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Virtualisation modernisation reshapes hybrid workload management beyond hypervisor replacement
This sponsored explainer from The Register, produced with HPE, argues that organisations facing rising virtualisation costs and licensing pressures should resist the urge to simply swap hypervisors and instead rethink how virtual workloads are placed, managed, secured and governed across their entire hybrid IT estate. It contends that a straight platform swap or lift-and-shift migration…