A developer was writing a Mac temperature monitoring app with Claude Code when the agent noticed the processor was heating up to 112°C (234°F). The cause turned out to be a hidden XMRig miner: it was using about 12 cores, launched at startup and, judging by a screenshot, had been running since August 29. Claude offered to move its files to a quarantine folder and, once it got the go-ahead, removed the miner, the author wrote on Reddit, as reported by Tom's Hardware.
According to CNN and The Verge, Google Cloud services in the europe-west2 region were returning errors from around 7 a.m. London time on Tuesday because of a power failure. During that time, Revolut customers were partly unable to use services including card payments, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange; a source told Reuters this was caused by the Google outage. After 1 p.m., Google said services were recovering.
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, said at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that his company has completely changed how it operates over the past year and that the closest analogy today is a “self-driving company,” where AI agents do much of the work. A support ticket is first analyzed by an agent that reviews GitHub issues, the codebase and Linear tickets, and the employee gets a complete analysis, decides what to do next and can hand the fix to another agent with a single click. The team now spends more time on architecture and on deciding what to build, and according to Masad, human judgment and taste will be needed in the process for a long time.
Three previously shut-down US reactors will return to the grid: Palisades in Michigan (800 MW, from March 2027), Crane at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania (835 MW, in 2027) and Duane Arnold in Iowa (615 MW, in 2029). Microsoft will be the main buyer of power from Crane under a 20-year contract, while NextEra Energy is restarting Duane Arnold together with Google. Palisades is the first reactor to be restarted after decommissioning had begun, Tom's Hardware reports.