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As companies deploy AI agents that autonomously execute multi-step tasks across enterprise systems, existing identity and access controls only confirm authentication at login, not whether an agent's behavior remains safe afterward. The piece argues that once agents are authenticated and acting independently, traditional security tools offer little ongoing visibility into their actions.
Playground Games has published official PC requirements for its upcoming Fable reboot, launching February 23, 2027. Entry-level 1080p/30fps play needs only an RTX 2060 or equivalent, but reaching 4K at 60fps on Ultra settings calls for an RTX 5080 or RTX 4080 paired with a Ryzen 9 7900X or Intel i9 13900K.
Ridley Scott is releasing a post-apocalyptic survival film called 'The Dog Stars,' adapted from Peter Heller's novel about life after a devastating flu pandemic. At the same time, he's developing a new take on 'Treasure Island' starring Hugh Jackman and considering turning one of his earlier films into a musical, though he won't say which one.
Vijay Pande, who built Andreessen Horowitz's healthcare and life sciences practice into a roughly $4 billion operation, departed the firm last June to co-found VZVC with longtime investor Zack Werner. The new firm is deliberately small, making only a handful of concentrated investments per year instead of dozens, forgoing associates, and leaning heavily on AI tools for daily operations.
Vijay Pande, who built Andreessen Horowitz's biotech investing practice into a nearly $4 billion operation, has departed to co-found a much smaller firm called VZVC with longtime investor Zach Werner. The new fund makes only a handful of concentrated investments each year instead of dozens, forgoes associates, and leans heavily on AI tools to run its operations.
Chinese robotics firms are building humanoid and industrial robots using Nvidia's chips and simulation software, an area of AI hardware trade that remains largely permitted under current U.S. export rules. Nvidia has positioned itself as a key infrastructure provider for this 'physical AI' sector, supplying both computing power and development platforms to Chinese customers despite broader U.S.-China tech tensions.
During a hands-on preview session, Rockstar North's Rob Nelson demonstrated GTA 6 running at 30 FPS and told YouTuber Davy Jones the studio has no confirmed 60 FPS mode for launch, even on PS5 Pro. Nelson said he'd need to check with the technical team about whether higher frame rates might arrive later.
A new guide explains how everyday users can download and run large language models like those from Meta and Google directly on their own Windows, macOS, or Linux machines instead of relying on cloud-based apps like ChatGPT. Running LLMs locally offers offline access and greater privacy since no data is sent to outside servers, and it avoids subscription fees, though these free models are generally less powerful and slower than paid cloud versions. The guide notes that macOS is often preferred due to Apple Silicon's unified memory architecture, and that at least 16GB of RAM is recommended for smooth performance.
A user ran Alibaba's new Qwen3.8 27B model locally on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra for 10 days, using it for daily tasks like summarizing RSS feeds and renaming scanned PDFs, then formally benchmarked it against its predecessor. The Q4_K_M version generated at about 14 tokens per second versus 28.6 tokens/s for Qwen3.6 27B, but produced answers using roughly a third as many tokens, making total response time nearly equal. A 1-bit quantized version ran much faster at 27 tokens/s and stayed factually accurate but struggled to commit to definitive answers.
A homelab operator upgrading to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8, an Intel E610-XT2 10GbE card, and a Minisforum MS-01 miniPC found file transfers crawling at 100-200 Mbps despite all hardware reporting a full 10 gigabit link. After ruling out the NAS, its RAID array, SSD caching, Immich, SMB signing, and Windows Defender, an iperf3 test isolated the problem to networking between the desktop and the MS-01, revealing nearly a million discarded received packets on the Intel adapter. The root cause turned out to be the E610 driver defaulting to 512 receive buffers instead of its supported maximum of 4096.
An early, unofficial build of Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 upscaling technology has surfaced through mods, and initial testing suggests it produces worse image quality than expected while cutting gaming performance roughly in half. Testers say the AI-driven rendering ignores the original artistic style of games, producing an over-processed look rather than a faithful enhancement.
Moniepoint's Cloud Engineering team, led by Celestina Amadi, migrated its Kafka deployment from manually managed VMs running Docker Compose to Strimzi, a Kubernetes-native way of running Kafka. The change was made proactively, not in response to an outage, after the team recognized that the VM-based setup—which required SSH access and manual port-forwarding for even small configuration changes—could not scale to support Moniepoint's payment and savings products.