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Google's NotebookLM AI Can Now 'Discover Sources' For You

Par : BeauHD
4 avril 2025 à 01:40
Google's NotebookLM has added a new "Discover sources" feature that allows users to describe a topic and have the AI find and curate relevant sources from the web -- eliminating the need to upload documents manually. "When you tap the Discover button in NotebookLM, you can describe the topic you're interested in, and NotebookLM will bring back a curated collection of relevant sources from the web," says Google software engineer Adam Bignell. Click to add those sources to your notebook; "it's a fast and easy way to quickly grasp a new concept or gather essential reading on a topic." PCMag reports: You can still add your files. NotebookLM can ingest PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs, or Google Slides and summarize, transcribe, narrate, or convert into FAQs and study guides. "Discover sources" helps incorporate information you may not have saved. [...] The imported sources stay within the notebook you created. You can read the entire original document, ask questions about it via chat, or apply other NotebookLM features to it. Google started rolling out both features on Wednesday. It should be available for all users in about "a week or so." For those concerned about privacy, Google says, "NotebookLM does not use your personal data, including your source uploads, queries, and the responses from the model for training." There's also an "I'm Feeling Curious" button (a reference to its iconic "I'm feeling lucky" search button) that generates sources on a random topic you might find interesting.

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Prison : les députés reviennent sur l’aménagement obligatoire des courtes peines

Une proposition de loi, examinée dans le cadre de la niche parlementaire du groupe Horizons, jeudi, rétablit la possibilité de prononcer des peines de prison ferme de moins d’un mois et abroge le principe selon lequel une peine inférieure ou égale à six mois doit obligatoirement faire l’objet d’un aménagement.

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Un gardien de prison entre dans une cellule du quartier disciplinaire de la prison de Bordeaux-Gradignan, à Gradignan (Gironde), en décembre 2023.

Laurence de Charette: «La politisation de la justice ne date pas de l’affaire Le Pen»

LE BLOC-NOTES - Par-delà l’inéligibilité de Marine Le Pen, notre système judiciaire est confronté à une crise de confiance, en grande partie due à sa politisation. Car les mésaventures de Nicolas Sarkozy et de François Fillon avaient déjà mis en lumière son virage à gauche.

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Laurence de Charette.

Massive Expansion of Italy's Piracy Shield Underway

Par : BeauHD
4 avril 2025 à 01:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Walled Culture has been following closely Italy's poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of Google Drive for the entire country, and how malicious actors could similarly use that unchecked power to shut down critical national infrastructure. Since then, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), an international, not-for-profit association representing computer, communications, and Internet industry firms, has added its voice to the chorus of disapproval. In a letter (PDF) to the European Commission, it warned about the dangers of the Piracy Shield system to the EU economy [...]. It also raised an important new issue: the fact that Italy brought in this extreme legislation without notifying the European Commission under the so-called "TRIS" procedure, which allows others to comment on possible problems [...]. As well as Italy's failure to notify the Commission about its new legislation in advance, the CCIA believes that: this anti-piracy mechanism is in breach of several other EU laws. That includes the Open Internet Regulation which prohibits ISPs to block or slow internet traffic unless required by a legal order. The block subsequent to the Piracy Shield also contradicts the Digital Services Act (DSA) in several aspects, notably Article 9 requiring certain elements to be included in the orders to act against illegal content. More broadly, the Piracy Shield is not aligned with the Charter of Fundamental Rights nor the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU -- as it hinders freedom of expression, freedom to provide internet services, the principle of proportionality, and the right to an effective remedy and a fair trial. Far from taking these criticisms to heart, or acknowledging that Piracy Shield has failed to convert people to paying subscribers, the Italian government has decided to double down, and to make Piracy Shield even worse. Massimiliano Capitanio, Commissioner at AGCOM, the Italian Authority for Communications Guarantees, explained on LinkedIn how Piracy Shield was being extended in far-reaching ways (translation by Google Translate, original in Italian). [...] That is, Piracy Shield will apply to live content far beyond sports events, its original justification, and to streaming services. Even DNS and VPN providers will be required to block sites, a serious technical interference in the way the Internet operates, and a threat to people's privacy. Search engines, too, will be forced to de-index material. The only minor concession to ISPs is to unblock domain names and IP addresses that are no longer allegedly being used to disseminate unauthorized material. There are, of course, no concessions to ordinary Internet users affected by Piracy Shield blunders. In the future, Italy's Piracy Shield will add: - 30-minute blackout orders not only for pirate sports events, but also for other live content; - the extension of blackout orders to VPNs and public DNS providers; - the obligation for search engines to de-index pirate sites; - the procedures for unblocking domain names and IP addresses obscured by Piracy Shield that are no longer used to spread pirate content; - the new procedure to combat piracy on the #linear and "on demand" television, for example to protect the #film and #serietv.

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Louvre Museum In Paris to Discontinue Nintendo 3DS Audio Guides

Par : BeauHD
4 avril 2025 à 00:20
The Louvre Museum will discontinue its use of Nintendo 3DS XL consoles as audio guides by September 2025, replacing them with a new system. NintendoSoup reports: For several years the Louvre has been using specially dedicated New Nintendo 3DS XL consoles to give visitors an audio guided tour of the famous museum. According to the museum's official website however, it seems that the program will be discontinued in September 2025, to be replaced by a new system. Presumably, this is due to Nintendo slowly phasing out the Nintendo 3DS line in general, having stopped supporting repairs for the console in a few countries. The consoles used by the Louvre would have broken down sooner or later, necessitating a change if they could no longer be sent in for repairs. At the time of this writing, it is not known what will become of the unique special edition consoles that were being used for this purpose.

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Prison : les députés reviennent sur l’aménagement obligatoire des courtes peines

Une proposition de loi, examinée dans le cadre de la niche parlementaire du groupe Horizons jeudi, rétablit la possibilité de prononcer des peines de prison ferme de moins d’un mois et abroge le principe selon lequel une peine inférieure ou égale à six mois doit obligatoirement faire l’objet d’un aménagement.

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Un gardien de prison entre dans une cellule du quartier disciplinaire de la prison de Bordeaux-Gradignan, à Gradignan (Gironde), en décembre 2023.

DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World

Par : BeauHD
3 avril 2025 à 23:40
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Ryan Whitwam: Researchers at DeepMind have ... released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a huge amount of detail, clocking in at 108 pages before references. While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe dream, the authors of the DeepMind paper project that it could happen by 2030. With that in mind, they aimed to understand the risks of a human-like synthetic intelligence, which they acknowledge could lead to "severe harm." This work has identified four possible types of AGI risk, along with suggestions on how we might ameliorate said risks. The DeepMind team, led by company co-founder Shane Legg, categorized the negative AGI outcomes as misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks. The first possible issue, misuse, is fundamentally similar to current AI risks. However, because AGI will be more powerful by definition, the damage it could do is much greater. A ne'er-do-well with access to AGI could misuse the system to do harm, for example, by asking the system to identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities or create a designer virus that could be used as a bioweapon. DeepMind says companies developing AGI will have to conduct extensive testing and create robust post-training safety protocols. Essentially, AI guardrails on steroids. They also suggest devising a method to suppress dangerous capabilities entirely, sometimes called "unlearning," but it's unclear if this is possible without substantially limiting models. Misalignment is largely not something we have to worry about with generative AI as it currently exists. This type of AGI harm is envisioned as a rogue machine that has shaken off the limits imposed by its designers. Terminators, anyone? More specifically, the AI takes actions it knows the developer did not intend. DeepMind says its standard for misalignment here is more advanced than simple deception or scheming as seen in the current literature. To avoid that, DeepMind suggests developers use techniques like amplified oversight, in which two copies of an AI check each other's output, to create robust systems that aren't likely to go rogue. If that fails, DeepMind suggests intensive stress testing and monitoring to watch for any hint that an AI might be turning against us. Keeping AGIs in virtual sandboxes with strict security and direct human oversight could help mitigate issues arising from misalignment. Basically, make sure there's an "off" switch. If, on the other hand, an AI didn't know that its output would be harmful and the human operator didn't intend for it to be, that's a mistake. We get plenty of those with current AI systems -- remember when Google said to put glue on pizza? The "glue" for AGI could be much stickier, though. DeepMind notes that militaries may deploy AGI due to "competitive pressure," but such systems could make serious mistakes as they will be tasked with much more elaborate functions than today's AI. The paper doesn't have a great solution for mitigating mistakes. It boils down to not letting AGI get too powerful in the first place. DeepMind calls for deploying slowly and limiting AGI authority. The study also suggests passing AGI commands through a "shield" system that ensures they are safe before implementation. Lastly, there are structural risks, which DeepMind defines as the unintended but real consequences of multi-agent systems contributing to our already complex human existence. For example, AGI could create false information that is so believable that we no longer know who or what to trust. The paper also raises the possibility that AGI could accumulate more and more control over economic and political systems, perhaps by devising heavy-handed tariff schemes. Then one day, we look up and realize the machines are in charge instead of us. This category of risk is also the hardest to guard against because it would depend on how people, infrastructure, and institutions operate in the future.

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Marco Rubio en mission pour rassurer les Européens au sujet de l’OTAN

S’il s’est exprimé de façon moins brutale que le chef du Pentagone, Pete Hegseth, mi-février, le secrétaire d’Etat américain, en visite au siège de l’OTAN à Bruxelles, jeudi, n’en a pas moins exhorté les membres de l’Alliance à augmenter massivement leurs dépenses de défense pour que celles-ci atteignent à moyen terme 5 % de leur produit intérieur brut.

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Le secrétaire général de l’OTAN, Mark Rutte, le secrétaire d’État américain, Marco Rubio, et le ministre britannique des affaires étrangères, David Lammy, au siège de l’Alliance à Bruxelles, le 3 avril 2025.

En direct, guerre en Ukraine : au moins trois morts dans des frappes de drones russes sur Kharkiv

Les corps de trois personnes ont été retrouvés dans les décombres de bâtiments résidentiels et de bureaux dans l’un des districts de Kharkiv, dans l’est de l’Ukraine, dans la soirée de jeudi. Trente-deux personnes, dont un enfant, ont également été blessées.

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Un immeuble endommagé et des voitures carbonisées après une frappe russe de drones, à Kharkiv, en Ukraine, jeudi 3 avril 2025 en soirée.

« Signalgate » : ouverture d’une enquête interne sur Pete Hegseth, le ministre de la défense américain

L’affaire a éclaté après qu’un journaliste a été ajouté par erreur à un groupe de discussion en amont de frappes américaines contre les rebelles houthistes du Yémen, révélant des informations sensibles.

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Le ministre de la défense américain, Pete Hegseth, à la Maison Blanche, à Washington, le 4 février 2025.
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