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.…
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.…
Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley
GTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes, cling-film-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they've stepped out of a movie screen – and we're not talking about a Pixar movie either.…
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.…
Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters
Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.…
UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power
The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.…
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.…
Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:\
Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.…
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 tired 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.…
