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World<s>Coin</s>'s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you

2 hours 41 min ago
Sell your soul to the orb

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.…

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AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left

3 hours 52 min ago
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart

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.…

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Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a <i>budget bière</i>

4 hours 13 min ago
Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spots

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.…

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Chips...in...spaaaace - courtesy of Nvidia

5 hours 55 min ago
The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs

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.…

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HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push

6 hours 44 min ago
Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'

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.…

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EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach

6 hours 48 min ago
State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties

The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…

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Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire

7 hours 9 min ago
Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball

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.…

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Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python

9 hours 7 min ago
Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases

JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.…

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Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination

9 hours 57 min ago
Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031

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.…

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Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

10 hours 40 min ago
Second emergency fix in days targets Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2

Microsoft has pushed out yet another out-of-band hotpatch, this time to fix Bluetooth issues in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2.…

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Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses

10 hours 48 min ago
Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information

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.…

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Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS

13 hours 1 min ago
Plus: Fresh version of bcachefs arrives

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.…

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Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

14 hours 52 min ago
SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else

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.…

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In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

15 hours 39 min ago
A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day

For decades, Reg readers have demanded to know exactly how often humans let rip – and at last science may have produced an answer.…

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BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

16 hours 7 min ago
MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead

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.…

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Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample

16 hours 37 min ago
Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life

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.…

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Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because users may be too lazy to check its mistakes

18 hours 29 min ago
You’ll be exhausted by then because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial task

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.…

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Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats

20 hours 29 min ago
AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes

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.…

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AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

22 hours 28 min ago
Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

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.…

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Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066

Mon, 2026-03-16 22:07
'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff

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.…

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