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Ariane-6 : décollage réussi du satellite Sentinel-1D pour la surveillance de l’environnement, dans le cadre du programme Copernicus

Grâce à son radar avancé, Sentinel-1D promet une surveillance inédite des changements climatiques, offrant des données cruciales pour la gestion des crises environnementales à l’échelle mondiale.

© RONAN LIETAR / AFP

La fusée Ariane 6, transportant le satellite d’observation terrestre Sentinel 1-D de l’Agence spatiale européenne, lors de son décollage, à Kourou, en Guyane, le 4 novembre 2025.

EN DIRECT, Gaza : l’armée israélienne annonce avoir identifié l’otage dont la dépouille a été rendue mardi

Il s’agit du sergent Itay Chen qui servait dans le 77ᵉ bataillon de la 7ᵉ brigade, selon un communiqué de l’armée diffusé mercredi peu après minuit, qui précise qu’il a été tué lors de l’attaque du 7-Octobre au kibboutz Nir Oz. Il avait 19 ans.

© DAWOUD ABU ALKAS / REUTERS

Un véhicule de la Croix-Rouge transporte la dépouille d’un otage qui vient de lui être remis par le Hamas, dans la ville de Gaza, le 4 novembre 2025.

Apple Delays Home App Update Requirement Until February 2026

Par :BeauHD
4 novembre 2025 à 23:50
Apple will officially discontinue support for its original Home architecture (formerly HomeKit) on February 10, 2026. As MacRumors points out, Apple has informed users that they need to "update now to avoid interruptions." AppleInsider reports: The underlying HomeKit architecture was revamped in March 2023 alongside iOS 16.4, so Apple has been supporting both the new and old architecture for the last two years. There were initial problems with stability that may have discouraged some users from upgrading, but those problems have now been addressed. When Apple stops supporting the original HomeKit architecture, it will break support for the Home app on devices running older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, tvOS 16.2, and watchOS 9.2 are the minimum versions of Apple's platforms that work with the updated Apple Home app, and older devices will lose access. The update includes support for features like guest access, support for robot vacuum cleaners, and Activity History. Apple says it also provides faster, more reliable performance, especially for smart homes with a lot of HomeKit and Matter accessories installed.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Google's Next Moonshot Is Putting TPUs In Space With 'Project Suncatcher'

Par :BeauHD
4 novembre 2025 à 23:10
Google's new "Project Suncatcher" aims to launch Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into space, creating a solar-powered, satellite-based AI network capable of scaling machine learning beyond Earth's limits. Google says a "solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth" for near-continuous power using a "dawn-dusk sun-synchronous low earth orbit" that reduces the need for batteries and other power generation. 9to5Google reports: These satellites would connect via free-space optical links, with large-scale ML workloads "distributing tasks across numerous accelerators with high-bandwidth, low-latency connections." To match data centers on Earth, the connection between satellites would have to be tens of terabits per second, and they'd have to fly in "very close formation (kilometers or less)." Google has already conducted radiation testing on TPUs (Trillium, v6e), with "promising" results: "While the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) subsystems were the most sensitive component, they only began showing irregularities after a cumulative dose of 2 krad(Si) -- nearly three times the expected (shielded) five year mission dose of 750 rad(Si). No hard failures were attributable to TID up to the maximum tested dose of 15 krad(Si) on a single chip, indicating that Trillium TPUs are surprisingly radiation-hard for space applications." Finally, Google believes that launch costs will "fall to less than $200/kg by the mid-2030s." At that point, the "cost of launching and operating a space-based data center could become roughly comparable to the reported energy costs of an equivalent terrestrial data center on a per-kilowatt/year basis."

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