Daily Tech News 4 April 2026

• Half of planned US datacenter builds have been delayed or canceled. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Unfortunately this does not represent a collapse in the AI industry - not yet, anyway - but a shortage in key electrical distribution components thanks to the ongoing trade war with China, something that will be resolved relatively quickly as other countries gleefully pick China's bones clean. Metaphorically.
  
  
  

• High-end OLED gaming monitors from Asus are arriving broken thanks to shoddy environmentally friendly packaging. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You'll own nothing, and what you do own will arrive broken.
  
  
  
• Arm will power 90% of AI servers based on Arm processors in 2029, says Arm. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They say "custom processors", but they mean Arm.
  
  
  
• Microsoft is telling business and retail customers alike not to rely on its Copilot AI products for anything that matters. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  But they still want you to keep handing them your money.
  
  
  
• First time as farce, second time also as farce: Don't go looking for Claude Code on GitHub. Not now. You'll just find yourself downloading malware. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The authentic copies have been taken down by Anthropic leaving only an army of leprous zombie clone corpses.
  
  
  
• But security researchers already got a chance to look at the code and see what Anthropic knows about you from the files you feed to Claude Code. (The Register)
  
  And the answer is, everything.
  
  
  
• PC makers have figured out how to keep making money with the price of key components headed into cislunar orbit: Stop marketing to the filthy poors. (WCCFTech)
  
  If you have computer, treat it like the one remaining intact moa egg. Not like other formerly remaining intact moa egg, which someone took out of its case and dropped.*
  
  * Google and Grok both say no such event happened. I am feeling gaslit right now
  
  
  
• For the rest of us, Google is shipping a $3 USB drive containing a bootable image of ChromeOS that will breathe new life into superannuated Windows hardware. (Liliputing)
  
  Or you could just install any other flavour of Linux. But ChromeOS is good for non-technical users.
  
  
  
• The project at work that has been consuming all my waking hours for the past two months is done, just in time for the Easter long weekend here. I am sleep.

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