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☕️ Exode sur l’IA chez Apple : Ke Yang passerait chez Meta

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Par :Sébastien Gavois
17 octobre 2025 à 06:05

L’information a été publiée par le généralement très bien informé Mark Gurman pour Bloomberg. Ke Yang, arrivé chez Apple il y a six ans, quitterait l’entreprise pour Meta. Il venait de prendre la direction de l’équipe « Answers, Knowledge and Information, ou AKI, en charge de développer des fonctionnalités pour rendre l’assistant vocal Siri plus proche de ChatGPT en ajoutant la possibilité d’extraire des informations du Web ».

Ce départ est le dernier d’une longue série, comme le rappelle à juste titre TechCrunch : « Ruoming Pang, ancien responsable des modèles d’IA d’Apple, est parti pour Meta plus tôt cette année. Environ une douzaine de membres de l’équipe AIML (AI et Machine Learning) d’Apple ont également quitté l’entreprise. Plusieurs membres ont rejoint les nouveaux Superintelligence Labs de Meta ». Toujours selon Bloomberg, d’autres départs pourraient arriver.

Apple devrait lancer une refonte de Siri en mars, selon notre confrère. Une évolution attendue de pied ferme car l’assistant est clairement en retard sur ses concurrents. « Siri est complètement con », lâchait même la semaine dernière Luc Julia aux Assises de la cybersécurité de Monaco.

☕️ Exode sur l’IA chez Apple : Ke Yang passerait chez Meta

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Par :Sébastien Gavois
17 octobre 2025 à 06:05

L’information a été publiée par le généralement très bien informé Mark Gurman pour Bloomberg. Ke Yang, arrivé chez Apple il y a six ans, quitterait l’entreprise pour Meta. Il venait de prendre la direction de l’équipe « Answers, Knowledge and Information, ou AKI, en charge de développer des fonctionnalités pour rendre l’assistant vocal Siri plus proche de ChatGPT en ajoutant la possibilité d’extraire des informations du Web ».

Ce départ est le dernier d’une longue série, comme le rappelle à juste titre TechCrunch : « Ruoming Pang, ancien responsable des modèles d’IA d’Apple, est parti pour Meta plus tôt cette année. Environ une douzaine de membres de l’équipe AIML (AI et Machine Learning) d’Apple ont également quitté l’entreprise. Plusieurs membres ont rejoint les nouveaux Superintelligence Labs de Meta ». Toujours selon Bloomberg, d’autres départs pourraient arriver.

Apple devrait lancer une refonte de Siri en mars, selon notre confrère. Une évolution attendue de pied ferme car l’assistant est clairement en retard sur ses concurrents. « Siri est complètement con », lâchait même la semaine dernière Luc Julia aux Assises de la cybersécurité de Monaco.

Les récompenses GeForce NOW vous attendent !

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17 octobre 2025 à 05:30

Cette semaine, le GFN Thursday met à l'honneur les membres qui font du cloud une expérience épique. Les abonnés Ultimate peuvent récupérer une récompense gratuite pour Borderlands 4 et s'équiper avec le dernier matériel SteelSeries, parfait pour vos aventures dans le cloud. Ce mois-ci, les membres GeForce NOW Ultimate peuvent obtenir une Golden Key gratuite pour Borderlands 4, idéale pour débloquer du butin rare dans ce nouveau looter-shooter. Cette récompense est disponible jusqu'au 16 novembre (dans la limite des stocks). Consultez vos emails pour plus de détails et plongez dans Borderlands 4 avec les performances d'une GeForce RTX 5080 pour une expérience optimale. Le Steam Next Fest continue et regorge de nouveaux jeux et démos passionnants. Essayez-les directement grâce à la fonction Install-to-Play de GeForce NOW, et testez-les sur un PC gaming GeForce RTX dans le cloud, avec les démos de Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II, The Legend of Khiimori, The Oversight Bureau, Skate Story, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era et bien d'autres. Et ce n'est pas tout : dix nouveaux jeux rejoignent le cloud cette semaine, en plus de la sortie officielle de Pax Dei en version 1.0. Que vous souhaitiez enrichir votre bibliothèque ou simplement remporter des récompenses, c'est le moment idéal pour être membre GeForce NOW. N'oubliez pas de consulter le compte X GeForce NOW pour tenter de gagner un bundle comprenant une manette et un casque SteelSeries. Ashburn, Portland, Dallas et Londres sont les dernières régions à bénéficier de la puissance des serveurs RTX 5080, suivies prochainement par Atlanta. Restez à l'écoute des GFN Thursday pour les mises à jour alors que davantage de régions passent à la technologie Blackwell RTX. Suivez l'avancée sur la page de déploiement des serveurs. Cette semaine, Control rejoint la liste des titres compatibles GeForce RTX 5080. Cherchez la ligne « GeForce RTX 5080 Ready » dans l'application ou consultez la liste complète. […]

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[Maj] Thermaltake remet en avant les rallonges RGB pour les alimentations

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17 octobre 2025 à 05:26

Si leur éphémère période de gloire est désormais passée, Thermaltake semble vouloir poursuivre dans les rallonges RGB pour les alimentations, et tout commence, ou recommence, avec un câble double EPS en blanc ou en noir avec deux couches de RGB. Tant qu'à faire, on en met un maximum ! Avec 54 diodes réparties sur une longueur de 272 mm, pour une longueur totale de 345 mm avec les connecteurs, il y a de quoi faire pour mettre de l'ambiance dans le PC. Mais ce n'est pas forcément ce que nous retiendrons. […]

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C'est officiel, Battlefield 6 est un carton, le meilleur même de la licence il parait !

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
17 octobre 2025 à 05:57

Battlefield 6 était attendu au tournant après un épisode 2042 décevant et qui n'aura pas réussi à inverser la mauvaise première impression. Pour parvenir à un succès, les développeurs ont essayé de se rapprocher de la communauté, celle qui n'a pas pour autant réussi dans leur coeur à remplacer Battl...

New ITVX Channel Streams Absolutely Spellbinding Footage of Earth... Forever

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Par :BeauHD
17 octobre 2025 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: I realize that, at this point, there are already far too many shows. Every channel, every streaming service is teeming with content demanding your attention, and there are simply too few hours in the day to watch them all. However, with that in mind, may I recommend a new show called Space Live? There's only one episode. The only potential downside is that the episode literally lasts for ever. Actually, that's inaccurate. Space Live isn't a show, it's a channel. It launched on Wednesday morning, tucked away on ITVX, and consists only of live footage of Earth broadcast from the International Space Station. It's beguiling to watch, especially for anyone who didn't realize that a person can be awestruck and bored simultaneously. It's billed as a world first. ITV has partnered with British space media company Sen to use live 4K footage from its proprietary SpaceTV-1 video camera system, mounted on the International Space Station, giving us three camera views: one of the station's docking ports, a horizon view able to show sunrises and storms, and a camera pointing straight down as the ISS passes across the planet. A tracker in the corner of the screen shows the live location of the ISS, while a real-time AI information feed provides facts about our geography and weather systems. Of course, if you wanted to be picky, you could argue it isn't exactly new. Nasa's YouTube channel has been streaming live footage from the ISS for years, and uniformly draws an audience of a few thousand. But Space Live is, if nothing else, slightly snazzier. The footage is certainly nicer: at 8.30am on Wednesday, Space Live showed gorgeous images of the sun's glare bouncing off the sea around the Bay of Biscay, while all Nasa could offer was a piece of cloth with the word "Flap" written on it. There's even a soundtrack, a constant, soothing kind of hold music that loops and loops without ever becoming fully annoying. It's an improvement, in other words. And, at least for the first orbit, it is absolutely spellbinding.

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Spotify Says It's Working With Labels On 'Responsible' AI Music Tools

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Par :BeauHD
17 octobre 2025 à 01:30
Spotify has officially partnered with major record labels to create a "responsible AI" initiative aimed at developing generative music tools that supposedly benefit both artists and fans. While Spotify promises choice, transparency, and fair compensation, the vague announcement has many skeptics wondering if "responsible AI" is just another remix of old industry power plays set to a new algorithmic beat. The Verge reports: Spotify didn't detail any specific products in the works but said it was building a "state-of-the-art generative AI research lab and product team focused on developing technologies that reflect our principles and create breakthrough experiences for fans and artists." Most of the press release is dedicated to vagaries and laying out the principles that will guide Spotify's generative AI projects: [partnerships with record labels, distributors, and music publishers; choice in participation; fair compensation and new revenue; and artist-fan connection.]

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Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI

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Par :Michael Larabel
17 octobre 2025 à 00:42
Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance...

Video Game Union Workers Rally Against $55 Billion Saudi-Backed Private Acquisition of EA

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Par :BeauHD
17 octobre 2025 à 00:50
EA employees and the Communications Workers of America union have condemned the company's proposed $55 billion private acquisition -- backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, "claiming they were not represented in the negotiations and any jobs lost as a result would 'be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors' pockets," reports Eurogamer. From the report: Following the announcement, there's been plenty of speculation around the future of EA and its multiple owned studios, split between EA Sports and EA Entertainment. Now, members of the United Videogame Workers union and the CWA have issued a formal response alongside a petition for regulators to scrutinize the deal. "EA is not a struggling company," the statement reads. "With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world." This success has been driven by company workers, the union stated. "Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed." Citing the number of layoffs across the industry since 2022, workers fear for "the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed 'less profitable' but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA's reputation." "If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors' pockets - not to strengthen the company," the statement reads. "Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power," it continues. "Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are calling on regulators and elected officials to scrutinize this deal and ensure that any path forward protects jobs, preserves creative freedom, and keeps decision-making accountable to the workers who make EA successful." As such, workers have launched a petition in a "fight to make video games better for workers and players -- not billionaires". The statement concludes: "The value of video games is in their workers. As a unified voice, we, the members of the industry-wide video game workers' union UVW-CWA, are standing together and refusing to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry."

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Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones

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Par :BeauHD
17 octobre 2025 à 00:10
Miami-Dade County is piloting a self-driving police car built by PolicingLab and powered by Perrone Robotics, equipped with 360-degree cameras, AI analytics, license plate readers, and even drone-launch capabilities. The Drive reports: "Designed as a force multiplier, the PUG combines advanced autonomy from Perrone Robotics with AI-driven analytics, real-time crime data, and a suite of sensors including 360-degree cameras, thermal imaging, license plate recognition, and drone launch capabilities," [says the PolicingLab's announcement.] "Its role: extend deputy resources, improve efficiency, and enhance community safety without additional cost to Miami-Dade taxpayers," it continued. For starters, this is merely a pilot program being sponsored by PolicingLab, not a standard addition to the department's fleet. And second, at least initially, it's being soft-launched as a feeler for the Sheriff's public affairs folks. It'll be posted up at public and media events in order to "gather feedback" before the department considers whether to press it into service. Once it's actually brought online, PolicingLab says the squad car will offer several benefits to the department: "The 12-month pilot will evaluate outcomes such as improved response times, enhanced deterrence, officer safety, and stronger public trust," it said. "Results will inform whether and how the program expands, potentially serving as a national model for agencies across the country." In other words, PolicingLab expects that the data collected about real-world policing will more than offset the costs of building and supporting the car in the long run, but if these are ever pressed into regular service, you can bet they'll come with hefty subscription and support costs, even if they do eliminate expensive human labor (and judgment) from the situation.

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Sony Tells SCOTUS That People Accused of Piracy Aren't 'Innocent Grandmothers'

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Par :BeauHD
16 octobre 2025 à 23:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Record labels Sony, Warner, and Universal yesterday asked the Supreme Court to help it boot pirates off the Internet. Sony and the other labels filed their brief (PDF) in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, a case involving the cable Internet service provider that rebuffed labels' demands for mass terminations of broadband subscribers accused of repeat copyright infringement. The Supreme Court's eventual decision in the case may determine whether Internet service providers must terminate the accounts of alleged pirates in order to avoid massive financial liability. Cox has argued (PDF) that copyright-infringement notices -- which are generated by bots and flag users based on their IP addresses -- sent by record labels are unreliable. Cox said ISPs can't verify whether the notices are accurate and that terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files. Record labels urged the Supreme Court to reject this argument. "While Cox waxes poetic about the centrality of Internet access to modern life, it neglects to mention that it had no qualms about terminating 619,711 subscribers for nonpayment over the same period that it terminated just 32 for serial copyright abuse," the labels' brief said. "And while Cox stokes fears of innocent grandmothers and hospitals being tossed off the Internet for someone else's infringement, Cox put on zero evidence that any subscriber here fit that bill. By its own admission, the subscribers here were 'habitual offenders' Cox chose to retain because, unlike the vast multitude cut off for late payment, they contributed to Cox's bottom line." Record labels were referring to a portion of Cox's brief that said, "Grandma will be thrown off the Internet because Junior illegally downloaded a few songs on a visit."

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Meta Is Building a Smart TV In VR

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Par :BeauHD
16 octobre 2025 à 22:50
Meta has officially launched Horizon TV, a virtual reality "smart TV" app for its Quest headsets. The app mirrors modern smart TV interfaces with deep-linked streaming apps and curated recommendations -- but it's still missing major players like Netflix and Disney+. From a report: Except Horizon TV isn't running on a TV or streaming stick, but on the company's Meta Quest headsets. Unveiled at Meta Connect last month, the app is a big part of Meta's push to attract older, less gaming-focused audiences to VR -- a push that also includes a partnership with James Cameron, and investments into sports, and other types of leanback entertainment content. Re-creating the smart TV experience in virtual reality also represents a monetization opportunity for Meta, which has for some time now tried to figure out how to bring advertising to VR. However, the approach also means that Meta is inheriting some of the very problems smart TV platform operators have struggled with for a long time. And if consumers do warm up to watching more content with their headsets, they're bound to realize that even in VR, you can't escape the collateral damage of the streaming wars.

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Google DeepMind Partners With Fusion Startup

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Par :BeauHD
16 octobre 2025 à 22:10
Google DeepMind is partnering with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to use its Torax AI software to simulate and optimize plasma behavior inside the company's Sparc fusion reactor. TechCrunch reports: There's a reason Google keeps coming back to the problem: AI might be uniquely suited to making fusion power possible. One of the biggest challenges facing fusion startups is keeping the plasma inside a reactor hot enough for long enough. Unlike nuclear fission reactions, which are self-sustaining, fusion reactions are difficult to maintain outside of stars like the Sun. Without that sort of mass and gravity, the plasma is constantly in danger of diffusing and snuffing itself out. In CFS's reactors, powerful magnets substitute for gravity to help corral the plasma, but they're not perfect. Reactor operators have to develop control software that can enable the device to continuously react to changing plasma conditions. Problem is, there are almost too many knobs to turn, certainly more than a human is capable of. That's the sort of problem that AI excels at. Experts have cited AI as one of the key technologies that has enabled the industry's remarkable advances over the past several years. CFS is currently building Sparc, its demonstration reactor, in a suburb outside Boston. The device is about two-thirds completed, and when finished later in 2026, the startup is predicting that it will be the first fusion device capable of producing more power than the plant needs to run itself. Google said Torax can be used with reinforcement learning or evolutionary search models to find the "most efficient and robust paths to generating net energy." The two companies are also exploring whether AI can be used to control the reactor's operation.

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Open Source GZDoom Community Splinters After Creator Inserts AI-Generated Code

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Par :BeauHD
16 octobre 2025 à 21:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you've even idly checked in on the robust world of Doom fan development in recent years, you've probably encountered one of the hundreds of gameplay mods, WAD files, or entire commercial games based on GZDoom. The open source Doom port -- which can trace its lineage back to the original launch of ZDoom back in 1998 -- adds modern graphics rendering, quality-of-life additions, and incredibly deep modding features to the original Doom source code that John Carmack released in 1997. Now, though, the community behind GZDoom is publicly fracturing, with a large contingent of developers uniting behind a new fork called UZDoom. The move is in apparent protest of the leadership of GZDoom creator and maintainer Cristoph Oelckers (aka Graf Zahl), who recently admitted to inserting untested AI-generated code into the GZDoom codebase. "Due to some disagreements -- some recent; some tolerated for close to 2 decades -- with how collaboration should work, we've decided that the best course of action was to fork the project," developer Nash Muhandes wrote on the DoomWorld forums Wednesday. "I don't want to see the GZDoom legacy die, as do most all of us, hence why I think the best thing to do is to continue development through a fork, while introducing a different development model that highly favors transparent collaboration between multiple people." [...] Zahl defended the use of AI-generated snippets for "boilerplate code" that isn't key to underlying game features. "I surely have my reservations about using AI for project specific code," he wrote, "but this here is just superficial checks of system configuration settings that can be found on various websites -- just with 10x the effort required." But others in the community were adamant that there's no place for AI tools in the workflow of an open source project like this. "If using code slop generated from ChatGPT or any other GenAI/AI chatbots is the future of this project, I'm sorry to say but I'm out," GitHub user Cacodemon345 wrote, summarizing the feelings of many other developers. In a GitHub bug report posted Tuesday, user the-phinet laid out the disagreements over AI-generated code alongside other alleged issues with Zahl's top-down approach to pushing out GZDoom updates.

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Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1 Billion From Those Annoying Texts

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Par :msmash
16 octobre 2025 à 20:51
The U.S. is awash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China. From a report: Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations. The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details. The gangs behind the scams take advantage of this information to buy iPhones, gift cards, clothing and cosmetics. Criminal organizations operating out of China, which investigators blame for the toll and postage messages, have used them to make more than $1 billion over the last three years, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Behind the con, investigators say, is a black market connecting foreign criminal networks to server farms that blast scam texts to victims. The scammers use phishing websites to collect credit-card information. They then find gig workers in the U.S. who will max out the stolen cards for a small fee. Making the fraud possible: an ingenious trick allowing criminals to install stolen card numbers in Google and Apple Wallets in Asia, then share the cards with the people in the U.S. making purchases half a world away.

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Apple Readies High-End MacBook Pro With Touch, Hole-Punch Screen

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Par :msmash
16 octobre 2025 à 20:10
Speaking of the new MacBook Pro, which Apple launched on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reports that the company is preparing to launch a touch-screen version of its Mac computer, reversing course on a stance that dates back to co-founder Steve Jobs. From the report: The company is readying a revamped MacBook Pro with a touch display for late 2026 or early 2027 [non-paywalled link], according to people with knowledge of the matter. The new machines, code-named K114 and K116, will also have thinner and lighter frames and run the M6 line of chips. In making the move, Apple is following the rest of the computing industry, which embraced touch-screen laptops more than a decade ago. The company has taken years to formulate its approach to the market, aiming to improve on current designs. Bloomberg News first reported in January 2023 that Apple was working on a touch-screen MacBook Pro. The new laptops will feature displays with OLED technology, the same standard used in iPhones and iPad Pros, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the products haven't been announced. It will mark the first time that this higher-end, thinner system is used in a Mac.

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Sal Khan Will Become the Public Face of the TED Conference

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Par :msmash
16 octobre 2025 à 19:30
The TED conference is changing hands, and education pioneer Sal Khan will be the new "vision steward" for the institution long headed by Chris Anderson. From a report: The move aims to ensure the future of the organization, while keeping it a not-for-profit entity. Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, will be the public face of TED, with Logan McClure Davda taking over as CEO. Davda, who previously served as the organization's head of impact and was the co-founder of its fellows program, will run day-to-day operations. Khan remains CEO of Khan Academy while joining TED's board. Jay Herratti, who has served as CEO since 2021, will remain on TED's board. TED announced in February it was seeking new leadership and structure and put out an open call for proposals. The company held dozens of discussions, including some that would have transformed the organization into a for-profit venture. The organization's flagship conference is also headed for a big change, with 2026 being its last year in Vancouver, with plans to hold future events somewhere in California.

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