# Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it — retained record

> Retained news record from news:digg-verification:theregister.com.

Canonical: https://highsignal.app/data/records/3f72d1c1974c1040

[← sources](https://highsignal.app/data)


source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:digg-verification:theregister.com)  published 2026-11-12 19:34 ingested 2026-11-12 19:34

[original source ↗](https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/11/02/microsofts-moolah-mountain-is-more-massive-than-ever-it-just-doesnt-want-the-people-who-built-it/5306576)

## retained text



```
AI
- Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue
- Marvell wants to be a copper topper, bets $115B on photonics leader to push optical networking IP house believes optics demand is going to explode as Nvidia and others eye bigger systems
- OPINION Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it Flash the cash, flush the cache
- Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
- Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
Infosec
- Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
- Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more
- Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
- Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified
- Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
FOSS
- AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
- Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing
- Systemd adds support for Rust What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!
- FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
- SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux
- Red Hat helps teach about tech writing But learns tough lessons about AI in the process
```



document fetched 2026-11-12 19:34 · canonical https://theregister.com/columnists/2026/11/02/microsofts-moolah-mountain-is-more-massive-than-ever-it-just-doesnt-want-the-people-who-built-it/5306576