# Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets — retained record > Retained news record from news:theregister. Canonical: https://highsignal.app/data/records/c10961595a4add2c [← sources](https://highsignal.app/data) source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:theregister) published 2026-05-06 20:49 ingested 2026-05-07 08:18 [original source ↗](https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/05/06/youtuber-turns-hamster-wheel-into-phone-charger/5231293) ## extract MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Securing the Untrusted Agentic Development Layer Join us to learn how to architect a development environment where your builders and their agents can move fast and securely. - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines. - Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape. - Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape. - Unfriendly Followers: The Black Market For Your Identity They’ll reveal how attackers use your profile as intel and show you how to make yourself harder to target AI - PAAS + IAAS Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in - Off-Prem Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS - Systems Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’ Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips - AI Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs For AI agents, seeing is expensive - Offbeat Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone? Infosec - PAAS + IAAS Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in - Off-Prem Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS - Systems Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’ Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips - AI Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs For AI agents, seeing is expensive - Offbeat Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone? FOSS - Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in - Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS - Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’ Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips - Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs For AI agents, seeing is expensive - Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone? - Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits FEATURES - GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet - OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw - Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows - The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation - Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors - How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies - 'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour - How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C - No one talking about a datacenter could be a sign one is coming ## retained text No document body was retained for this record — only its metadata was stored.