Google teams with nuclear giant to add 890MW capacity; Schneider Electric lands $22.6B PTC deal

Microsoft’s announcement is not the focus here; the source material is a roundup of recent tech news The Register.

AI

• Google is partnering with a nuclear-power giant to upgrade turbines, generators and digital controls, which the source says should unlock an additional 890 MW of capacity.
• Schneider Electric is investing $22.6 billion in a PTC as the datacenter boom drives money toward smarter power infrastructure.
• Cohere plans to place agents in “lockdown mode” with strict ACLs, a feature the source likens to OpenClaw but with tighter access control.
• Volantis, backed by Altman, proposes embedding photonics in AI accelerators to “vault the memory wall,” according to the interview.
• Anthropic’s bug-hunting model Mythos is described as “hardcore good at math,” with exploitation attempts traced to a China-hosted IP by a VulnCheck researcher.

Infosec

• Russian actors are impersonating Signal support to launch phishing attacks, the source notes.
• Microsoft’s patches failed to resolve an on-prem SharePoint issue, which is now under a zero-day attack.
• DEF CON’s Franklin project is enlisting hackers to harden critical infrastructure, and Jeff Moss says the voting-village reports have been so successful the entire conference will now be included.
• EQT bought a majority share in Swiss cybersecurity firm Acronis at a valuation of $3.5 billion+, though the exact portion sold was not disclosed.
• Ten years after the first corporate ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen observes no sign of an end to the threat, noting that infosec remains a stable career path.

FOSS

• Ubuntu’s “Stonking Stingray” beta introduces deeper Rust “oxidization” and LLM speech-to-text; GNOME 51 is also mentioned.
• Revive Raskin’s three laws of software are highlighted, with a nod to angry NeoVim users.
• Firefox 157 arrives with a significant reskin, the source suggests it could be what Mozilla needs.
• KDE celebrates 30 years, and an AI-native desktop proposal was presented at Akademy, envisioning Plasma assembling around a personal model of each user.
• Shopify’s acquisition gives Tailwind a “stable long-term home,” according to the source.
• Switzerland is testing a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365, positioning a “Swiss Army” knife against American cloud apps.

Our read: The roundup underscores a pattern of large-scale capital deployment in energy and infrastructure, heightened activity in cybersecurity acquisitions and threat mitigation, and a steady push to integrate open-source tools into mainstream platforms.