Crypto Regulation, AI Dev Tools, 3I/ATLAS Comet, and Vampire Squid Genome…

The British Treasury announced that, from October 2027, existing financial‑services rules will be extended to cover cryptocurrency exchanges and stable‑coin issuers, mirroring the U.S. approach while diverging from the EU’s dedicated MiCA regime. Chancellor Rachel Reeves framed the move as a “clear rules of the road” intended to keep “dodgy actors” out of the market, and the draft bill slated for parliamentary debate this week reflects the same framework published in April. The policy shift signals a maturing regulatory landscape that could shape global crypto compliance standards.  CoinDesk

Meta’s newly released React Compiler 1.0 promises to inject automatic memoization into production‑grade React apps, delivering up to a 12 % speed boost in load times and 2.5 × faster UI interactions without any code rewrites. InfoQ notes that the tool integrates diagnostics and works across major frameworks, effectively lowering the barrier for developers to achieve performance gains that previously required manual optimization. Early internal testing at Meta suggests the compiler can streamline builds while preserving developer ergonomics.  InfoQ

The twin service interruptions that hit AWS and Cloudflare earlier this year exposed how a single subsystem failure can cascade into a global outage. DevOps.com distills three takeaways: adopt true multi‑cloud redundancy, leverage AI‑driven observability to spot anomalies before they propagate, and rehearse disaster‑recovery playbooks that assume partial infrastructure loss. Enterprises that ignored these safeguards saw amplified downtime, underscoring the urgency of resilient architecture design.  DevOps.com

Microsoft’s latest VS Code update introduces an “Agent HQ” hub and a preview of TypeScript 7, while simultaneously retiring the free tier of IntelliCode’s AI‑powered suggestions. According to DevOps.com, the move steers developers toward paid AI assistance, positioning the editor as a central AI‑coding platform. The shift has sparked debate: some praise the richer feature set, whereas others lament the loss of a valuable free tool for the open‑source community.  DevOps.com

IBM and HashiCorp have announced the discontinuation of external language extensions for Terraform, effectively forcing users to adopt HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) exclusively. DevOps.com explains that the change aims to simplify the Terraform ecosystem and reduce maintenance overhead, but it also narrows flexibility for teams that built custom language plugins. The decision may accelerate HCL adoption while prompting a short‑term migration effort for large‑scale infrastructure as code deployments.  DevOps.com

Early benchmarks of the Linux 6.19 kernel running on a dual‑socket AMD EPYC 9965 platform reveal notable performance lifts for AI and high‑performance computing workloads, according to Phoronix. While the kernel delivers up to a 15 % throughput increase in select AI inference tasks, the team also flagged scheduler regressions that could affect latency‑sensitive applications. These results suggest that the upcoming kernel release will be a pivotal step for data‑center operators seeking to extract maximum efficiency from next‑gen AMD silicon.  Phoronix

Researchers have fabricated the first monolithic 3D integrated circuit in a U.S. foundry, stacking carbon‑nanotube transistors and on‑die RAM into a single die. Tom’s Hardware reports that the prototype promises up to a 1,000 × improvement in energy‑delay product compared with conventional planar chips, potentially reshaping the roadmap for low‑power, high‑density processors. If the technology scales, it could enable ultra‑efficient edge AI devices and radically reduce data‑center power consumption.  Tom's Hardware

The United Nations’ International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) is coordinating a global observing campaign of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which will pass within 167 million miles of Earth on December 19. Live Science highlights that more than 80 observatories and citizen‑science teams are gathering astrometric data to refine the comet’s trajectory and improve predictive models for future interstellar visitors. The campaign’s findings are slated for peer‑reviewed publication next year, promising a richer understanding of objects from beyond the Solar System.  Live Science

A collaborative study published in iScience has sequenced the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) genome, revealing chromosomes that closely resemble those of squids and cuttlefish despite the species’ placement in the octopus order. Live Science notes that this “living fossil” genome provides a molecular window into cephalopod divergence roughly 300 million years ago, helping to fill a long‑standing gap in the evolutionary record of squids, octopuses, and their kin. The discovery underscores the power of genomics to reconstruct deep‑time phylogenies.  Live Science