April 2026

Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard 2026-04-01 at 20:32 By Dan Robinson Second-hand ship, seawater cooling, with operations eyed for 2027 Japan is getting more serious about floating datacenters, as Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has agreed to a deal with Hitachi to develop one with operations targeted for 2027 […]

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year 2026-04-01 at 20:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math It was a strong year for renewable power expansion in 2025, with solar installations helping push renewables to nearly half of global electricity capacity, but that

OpenAI gets $122B to ‘just build things’ as the world blows them up 2026-04-01 at 20:32 By Lindsay Clark War, oil shocks, and market nerves could yet knock the AI boom off course Opinion  OpenAI has secured an additional $122 billion in capital from a diverse group of investors and reached a nominal $852 billion

Elon Musk’s SpaceX registers to take rocket maker public in blockbuster IPO: report 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Reuters An IPO at a potential valuation of more than $1.75 trillion would signal that space exploration has moved from speculative venture to a mainstream investment theme. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New

Robotaxi passengers left stranded in dangerous traffic after outage hits more than 100 driverless vehicles 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Ben Cost It was a real robo flop. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Latest malware scam weaponizes ‘I’m not a robot’ verification tests against users, experts warn 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Brooke Steinberg There’s a new scam to look out for in a place you wouldn’t expect. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Tim Anderson Board-backed account of maintainer ouster is unlikely to settle row over governance, control, and trust Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, just published an incident report regarding what it calls the September 2025 RubyGems fracture,

‘People’s Panel’ to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By SA Mathieson We could tell you no for free The UK government will spend about £630,000 running a discussion panel on its digital identity card plans, which minister James Frith said will “consider different perspectives and debate trade-offs”

France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M 2026-04-01 at 18:56 By Dan Robinson Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder The French government has finally closed a deal to purchase the Advanced Computing assets of tech giant Atos, leading to the re-emergence of an old industry name: Bull.… This article is