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World<s>Coin</s>'s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you
Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…
AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left
Earlier this month, AWS ended standard support for PostgreSQL 13 on RDS. Customers who want to stay on a supported database — as AWS is actively encouraging them to do — need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 or later.…
Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a <i>budget bière</i>
Your AI may need AI to oversee its work. Gallic AI biz Mistral is leaning into making AI code generation more reliable with Leanstral, a coding agent for proofs constructed using the open source Lean programming language.…
Chips...in...spaaaace - courtesy of Nvidia
gtc Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as "peak insanity" - Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically to operate above the Earth's atmosphere.…
HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push
HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.…
EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach
The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…
Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire
The rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.…
Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python
JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.…
Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination
Ofcom is laying out its pathway for fiber broadband almost everywhere across the UK in five years, but concedes that BT still dominates the market.…
Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth
Microsoft has pushed out yet another out-of-band hotpatch, this time to fix Bluetooth issues in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2.…
Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses
Iran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours.…
Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS
Linux 7.0 is approaching and there's a new version of bcachefs to go with it… as well as green shoots of support for Apple's new disk format.…
Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet
Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.…
In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies
For decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip – and at last science may have produced an answer.…
BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops
Britain's push to drag the BBC World Service into the digital age hasn't gone quite to plan, with MPs warning the broadcaster's "digital-first" strategy has shrunk audiences rather than growing them.…
Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample
Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.…
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because users may be too lazy to check its mistakes
Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output.…
Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow to develop tools that can cope with emerging AI-powered threats, according to General Manager of Cyber Defence Operations Andrew Pade.…
AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
interview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.…
Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066
Here today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old.…