Daily Tech News 4 February 2026

• How it started: Europe shrugs off tariffs and plans to end its complete reliance on America for all its technology. (The Register)
  
  Except for ASML, anyway.

  Forrester frames much of this as a sovereignty play, and it is hard to argue otherwise. Across Europe, money is going into sovereign cloud platforms, AI-ready infrastructure, and tighter rules on where data lives and who can access it.

  This is not a privacy question. It is a control question.
  
  
  
• How it's going: Amazon is finding that Europe is not exactly a powerhouse when it comes to, well, power. (The Register)

  AWS has moved quickly to flood the European continent with its elastic compute fabric, but while it may take two years to bring a new datacenter online, securing power for the facilities can take up to seven years, Pamela MacDougall, who heads energy markets and regulation for AWS EMEA, said in an interview with Reuters this week.

  I can fit you in at 2PM on the eleventh of Never.

  According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in some European datacenter meccas, like Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin, this wait can extend to as much as a decade.

  I'm not sure this is going to work as you planned, guys.
  
  
  

• China's latest Loongson 3B6000 twelve core CPU is about as fast as a two-core AMD processor. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  At that the 3B6000 is a big advance over the 3A6000, which is about as fast as a two-core AMD processor from 2011.
  
  
  
• Western Digital plans to introduce 40TB hard drives later this year. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And 100TB models by 2029.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT went down. (9to5Mac)
  
  I asked ChatGPT about this and it confirmed the incident, which is a major advance over even a year ago.
  
  
  
• Vibe coding kills open source. (Arxiv) (PDF)
  
  AI coding tools just grab the code and make no contributions of any kind.
  
  
  
• Well, that's not entirely true: AI tools are overwhelming GitHub with slop. (The Register)
  
  Slop that GitHub's parent company Microsoft spent billions to help foster.
  
  
  
• Yet another Forbes 30 Under 30 star has been indicted for fraud. (Tech Crunch)

  The government also accuses Güven of having kept two separate sets of financial books. One of those sets included "false and inflated numbers," and was presented to investors or potential investors to hide the "true financial condition of the company," the government claims. The DOJ also alleges that Güven used lies about Kalder as well as forged documents to obtain a category of visa reserved for individuals of "extraordinary ability," that would allow her to live and work in the United States.

  I am shocked, shocked, to find fraud going on in this fraud farm.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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