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Un mod version ultime pour le jeu Just Cause 3 !

4 décembre 2025 à 06:30

Luke JC nous dévoile ce qui ressemble bien au mod ultime pour le jeu Just Cause 3 ! Avec pas moins de 200 modifications, 60 nouveaux véhicules et 25 nouvelles armes, cela pourrait être l'occasion rêvée de replonger dans le titre de Avalanche Studios, pêle-mêle, la portée du grappin a été augmentée de 50%, les mouvements de Rico ont été perfectionnés, il peut se pencher plus lorsqu'il se trouve sur un véhicule, le wingsuit et le parachute sont plus maniables... La distance d'affichage a été améliorée pour les éléments 3D, les quelques rares textures 2D conservées ont été remplacées par des textures de meilleure qualité. Tous les personnages principaux sont disponibles en dehors des missions, certains pourront même vous accompagner dans votre véhicule. Le mod Just Cause 3 Unlimited Edition est téléchargeable ici. […]

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Un Hotfix pour le jeu Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

4 décembre 2025 à 06:00

Le studio Deep Silver nous annonce le déploiement d'un Hotfix pour son jeu Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, le téléchargement vous sera proposé automatiquement à l'ouverture de votre launcher.Le correctif 1.5.2 est désormais disponible pour Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Cette mise à jour vise principalement à améliorer la stabilité, à corriger les blocages de quêtes, à résoudre les bugs visuels et audio, et à traiter divers problèmes signalés par la communauté. […]

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Valve Reveals Its the Architect Behind a Push To Bring Windows Games To Arm

Par :BeauHD
4 décembre 2025 à 03:03
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge's Sean Hollister If you wrote off the Steam Frame as yet another VR headset few will want to wear, I guarantee you're not alone. But the Steam Frame isn't just a headset; it's a Trojan horse that contains the tech gamers need to play Steam games on the next Samsung Galaxy, the next Google Pixel, perhaps Arm gaming notebooks to come. I know, because I'm already using that tech on my Samsung Galaxy. There is no official Android version of Hollow Knight: Silksong, one of the best games of 2025, but that doesn't have to stop you anymore. Thanks to a stack of open-source technologies, including a compatibility layer called Proton and an emulator called Fex, games that were developed for x86-based Windows PCs can now run on Linux-based phones with the Arm processor architecture. With Proton, the Steam Deck could already do the Windows-to-Linux part; now, Fex is bridging x86 and Arm, too. This stack is what powers the Steam Frame's own ability to play Windows games, of course, and it was widely reported that Valve is using the open-source Fex emulator to make it happen. What wasn't widely reported: Valve is behind Fex itself. In an interview, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the architects behind SteamOS and the Steam Deck, tells The Verge that Valve has been quietly funding almost all the open-source technologies required to play Windows games on Arm. And because they're open-source, Valve is effectively shepherding a future where Arm phones, laptops, and desktops could freely do the same. He says the company believes game developers shouldn't be wasting time porting games if there's a better way. Remember when the Steam Deck handheld showed that a decade of investment in Linux could make Windows gaming portable? Valve paid open-source developers to follow their passions to help achieve that result. Valve has been guiding the effort to bring games to Arm in much the same way: In 2016 and 2017, Griffais tells me, the company began recruiting and funding open-source developers to bring Windows games to Arm chips. Fex lead developer Ryan Houdek tells The Verge he chatted with Griffais himself at conferences those years and whipped up the first prototype in 2018. He tells me Valve pays enough that Fex is his full-time job. "I want to thank the people from Valve for being here from the start and allowing me to kickstart this project," he recently wrote.

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AT&T and Verizon Are Fighting Back Against T-Mobile's Easy Switch Tool

Par :BeauHD
4 décembre 2025 à 02:02
AT&T and Verizon are blocking T-Mobile's new "Switching Made Easy" tool that scans their customer accounts to recommend comparable plans. AT&T is also suing, alleging T-Mobile used bots to scrape over 100 fields of sensitive customer data. From The Mobile Report: According to a lawsuit, which AT&T has shared directly with us, T-Mobile updated the T-Life app's scraping abilities three separate times in an attempt to bypass AT&T's detection. Essentially, T-Mobile and AT&T have been in a game of cat and mouse. Not only that, but AT&T alleges that T-Mobile is intentionally hiding the fact that it's their scraper accessing an account, and essentially pretends to be an end user while doing so. Apparently, T-Mobile's scraping bot tries its best to appear as a generic web browser. AT&T sent T-Mobile a cease and desist letter on November 24th demanding T-Mobile stop the scraping process. T-Mobile responded two days later refusing, stating that the process was legal because "customers themselves ... log into their own wireless account." On November 26th, AT&T says they detected T-Mobile is no longer scraping the AT&T website, and instead asks users to upload a pdf of their bill or enter some info manually. They note, however, that at the time the app still appeared to scrape Verizon accounts. The lawsuit further explains that AT&T reached out to Apple with the claim that T-Mobile's T-Life app is also violating the App Store Review Guidelines. T-Mobile responded to this complaint as well, making similar claims that the scraping process does not violate those guidelines. [...] According to AT&T, the T-Life app collects way more information than is necessary for a simple carrier switch. The company alleges T-Mobile grabs over 100 separate bits of info from a customer's account, including info about other users on the account and other services not related to wireless service. It's also worth noting that, apparently, T-Mobile is storing this information, not just using it temporarily, even if the customer doesn't end up switching. T-Mobile has responded to our request for comment, and says that actually, AT&T is wrong about the facts, and Easy Switch is safe and secure...

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OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case

Par :BeauHD
4 décembre 2025 à 01:01
A federal judge has ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in its copyright battle with the New York Times and other outlets. Reuters reports: U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in a decision made public on Wednesday said that the 20 million logs were relevant to the outlets' claims and that handing them over would not risk violating users' privacy. The judge rejected OpenAI's privacy-related objections to an earlier order requiring the artificial intelligence startup to submit the records as evidence. "There are multiple layers of protection in this case precisely because of the highly sensitive and private nature of much of the discovery," Wang said. An OpenAI spokesperson on Wednesday cited an earlier blog post from the company's Chief Information Security Officer Dane Stuckey, which said the Times' demand for the chat logs "disregards long-standing privacy protections" and "breaks with common-sense security practices." OpenAI has separately appealed Wang's order to the case's presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein. A group of newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is also involved in the lawsuit. MediaNews Group executive editor Frank Pine said in a statement on Wednesday that OpenAI's leadership was "hallucinating when they thought they could get away with withholding evidence about how their business model relies on stealing from hardworking journalists."

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White House Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards

Par :BeauHD
4 décembre 2025 à 00:00
Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: [T]he Trump administration announced less stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in an effort to bring down the price of new vehicles. The administration says that rules put in place by the Biden administration broke the law by going beyond the requirements mandated by Congress when the CAFE program was started. The new regulations will require automakers to meet an average fuel-economy figure of 34.5 mpg across 2031-model-year vehicles, instead of the 50.4 mpg that would have been required under the previous regulations. sinij comments: "This is a much-needed move as they also recently closed a number of loopholes, such as the assumed fuel-savings credit for engine start-stop technology, that made it more difficult to meet these goals. More so, a recent string of engine and transmission failures from multiple manufacturers shows that meeting fleet standards came at a very significant cost of reduced reliability."

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The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 23:23
404 Media's Claire Woodcock writes: As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library. Some libraries are now intentionally using iconic Blockbuster branding to recall the hours visitors once spent looking for something to rent on Friday and Saturday nights. John Scalzo, audiovisual collection librarian with a public library in western New York, says that despite an observed drop-off in DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra disc circulation in 2019, interest in physical media is coming back around. "People really seem to want physical media," Scalzo told 404 Media. Part of it has to do with consumer awareness: People know they're paying more for monthly subscriptions to streaming services and getting less. The same has been true for gaming. As the audiovisual selector with the Free Library of Philadelphia since 2024, Kris Langlais has been focused on building the library's video game collections to meet comparable interest in demand. Now that every branch library has a prominent video game collection, Langlais says that patrons who come for the games are reportedly expressing interest in more of what the library has to offer. "Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections," Langlais told 404 Media. "Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that." IP disputes are fueling the shift, too. The report notes how rights and licensing battles are making some films harder to access -- from titles that quietly slip out of commercial circulation, to streaming-only releases that never make it to disc, to entire shows vanishing during mergers like HBO Max-Discovery+. One prominent example is The People's Joker, which was briefly pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival over a conflict with Batman's rightsholders. Situations like that are pushing librarians to grab physical copies while they still can, before these works risk disappearing altogether.

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After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots

Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 22:22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: Five months after releasing a plan to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is turning to robots. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been meeting with robotics industry CEOs and is "all in" on accelerating the industry's development, according to three people familiar with the discussions who were granted anonymity to share details. The administration is considering issuing an executive order on robotics next year, according to two of the people. A Department of Commerce spokesperson said: "We are committed to robotics and advanced manufacturing because they are central to bringing critical production back to the United States." The Department of Transportation is also preparing to announce a robotics working group, possibly before the end of the year, according to one person familiar with the planning. A spokesperson for the department did not respond to a request for comment. There's growing interest on Capitol Hill as well. A Republican amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would have created a national robotics commission. The amendment was not included in the bill. Other legislative efforts are underway. The flurry of activity suggests robotics is emerging as the next major front in America's race against China. "There is now recognition that advanced robotics is crucial to the U.S. in terms of manufacturing, technology, national security, defense applications, public safety," said Brendan Schulman, VP of policy and government relations for Boston Dynamics. "The investment that we're seeing in the sector and the efforts in China to dominate the future of robotics are being noticed."

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After Nearly 30 Years, Crucial Will Stop Selling RAM To Consumers

Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 21:21
Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers. "The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage," Sumit Sadana, EVP and chief business officer at Micron Technology, said in a statement. "Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments." Ars Technica reports: Micron said it will continue shipping Crucial consumer products through the end of its fiscal second quarter in February 2026 and will honor warranties on existing products. The company will continue selling Micron-branded enterprise products to commercial customers and plans to redeploy affected employees to other positions within the company. Crucial launched in 1996 during the Pentium era as Micron's consumer brand for RAM and storage upgrades. Over the years, the brand expanded to encompass other memory-related products such as SSDs, flash memory cards, and portable storage drives. Micron Technology has been manufacturing RAM since 1981.

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HBO Max Botches Mad Men's 4K Debut After Streaming Wrong File Showing Visible Crewmembers

Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 20:20
HBO Max's 4K debut of Mad Men was botched after Lionsgate reportedly supplied the wrong file, leading to visible crew members where someone is seen pumping a vomit hose. Ars Technica reports: Mad Men ran on the AMC channel for seven seasons from 2007 to 2015. The show had a vintage aesthetic, depicting the 1960s advertising industry in New York City. Last month, HBO Max announced it would modernize the show by debuting a 4K version. The show originally aired in SD and HD resolutions and had not been previously made available in 4K through other means, such as Blu-ray. However, viewers were quick to spot problems with HBO Max's 4K Mad Men stream, the most egregious being visible crew members in the background of a scene. The episode was "Red in the Face" (Season 1, Episode 7), which was reportedly mislabeled. In it, Roger Sterling (John Slattery) throws up oysters. In the 4K version that was streaming on HBO Max, viewers could see someone pumping a vomit hose to make the fake puke flow. The Hollywood Reporter, citing an anonymous source, said that the error happened because Mad Men production company Lionsgate gave HBO Max the wrong file. The publication reported that Lionsgate "was working on getting HBO Max the correct file(s)" and was readying to provide them at approximately 10 a.m. PT today. The blunder is likely to be fixed for all viewers soon. There were no problems with the HD versions of HBO Max's Mad Men stream.

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La ligne grand public de SSD et de RAM Crucial sacrifiée sur l’autel de l’IA

Micron a annoncé l’arrêt de son activité grand public via Crucial, dans le monde entier d’ici la fin du deuxième trimestre fiscal, lequel s’achève en février 2026. Autrement dit, les produits liés à la mémoire et au stockage estampillés Crucial disparaîtront des rayons d’ici quelques mois... [Tout lire]

Adieu Crucial ! Poussé par les pénuries de DDR5 et SSD, Micron met fin à sa marque grand public

C'était sans doute l'une des marques préférées de bien des passionnés de hardware, car elle proposait depuis de nombreuses années des produits plutôt abordables et à bonne réputation (globalement). Elle avait également un impact positif dans la régulation des prix du marché, tant en RAM qu'en SSD. C...

YouTube Releases Its First-Ever Recap of Videos You've Watched

Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 19:19
YouTube has launched its first-ever "Recap" for videos watched on the main platform, giving users personalized cards that showcase their top channels, interests, and a personality type based on their watch habits. The feature rolls out across North America today and globally this week. TechCrunch reports: Users can find their Recap directly on the YouTube homepage or under the "You" tab. Recaps are accessible on mobile devices and desktop. YouTube says the new feature was requested by users and that it conducted over 50 different concept tests before landing on the final product. Alongside the launch of Recap, YouTube also released trend charts showcasing the top creators, podcasts, and songs of the year.

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Micron abandonne mémoire et SSD grand public

3 décembre 2025 à 19:35

Depuis plusieurs semaines les nuages s’amoncèlent autour du secteur de la mémoire et du stockage. Dernier rebondissement en date, l’abandon pur et simple de Micron du secteur grand public. Ses SSD et ses mémoires DDR Crucial ne seront désormais plus dirigés que vers les professionnels.

Énième épisode d’un jeu de domino qui n’en est qu’à ses débuts, Micron lâche la barre grand public pour sa production de mémoire et de stockage. Quand je parle d’un phare sur ce marché, c’est parce que le fabricant est présent sur ce segment depuis presque 30 ans et qu’il sert souvent de repère pour placer les autres acteurs. Avec la marque Crucial, Micron propose des références fiables et efficaces qui, sans briller particulièrement, sont toujours un bon moyen de positionner le marché.

« En cas de doute, il faut prendre du Crucial ». Cette phrase je l’ai prononcée plus d’une fois pour conseiller des gens. Parce que si ce n’est pas forcément le meilleur prix ni la plus performante, c’est toujours un produit stable et efficace avec une vraie garantie. 

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Le choix d’arrêter le secteur grand public va faire disparaitre les barrettes mémoire et les SSD Crucial des rayons. Difficile de savoir pour le moment si les contrats proposés à ses partenaires industriels vont toujours être honorés dans le futur. Micron propose en effet des composants à différents grands intégrateurs de portables et de MiniPC. Il est possible que ces contrats perdurent et que seuls les pièces détachées qui sont vendues en direct sous la marque Crucial disparaissent.

Comme je vous l’explique depuis plusieurs jours, la situation se tend de plus en plus chez les fabricants de mémoire vive. Si un constructeur à un arbitrage à faire entre avancer la production, fabriquer, livrer des dizaines de références à des milliers de revendeurs, gérer leur SAV et assurer le marketing des produits en forte concurrence. Ou n’avoir à livrer en direct qu’une poignée de clients quelques références qui seront payées rubis sur l’ongle à des tarifs laissant des mages plus conséquentes… La réflexion à mener ne prendra pas beaucoup de temps.

Crucial, la branche grand public de Micron

Crucial, la branche grand public de Micron

Évidemment, cette annonce conduira à des licenciements. Les antennes locales verront leur personnel reclassé en interne… Un vœu pieux pour une entreprise qui va forcément réduire sa voilure et concentrer sa masse salariale sur un territoire forcément beaucoup plus petit. Autres dégâts collatéraux de ce changement de cible, les éventuels contrats de sponsor de la part de Micron / Crucial, en particulier sur le terrain du eSport, vont probablement tous s’arrêter. La marque n’ayant plus besoin de communiquer auprès du grand public.

Micron annonce un calendrier rapide

Les livraisons actuelles suivront leur cour jusqu’en février prochain. À partir de cette date, plus aucune barrette de mémoire ni aucun SSD Crucial ne sera disponible en rayon. En pratique, les stocks devraient s’assécher assez rapidement. Et le prix partir à la hausse. Beaucoup de professionnels et d’intégrateurs chercheront sans doute à mettre la main sur des références Crucial qu’ils emploient depuis longtemps pour maintenir la cohésion des parcs dont ils ont la gestion.

Les produits Micron conserveront leurs garanties après cette date. Les clients finaux qui rencontreront un problème avec les produits pourront compter sur une prise en charge dans les termes classiques de leur garantie à partir de leur date d’achat.

Reste à savoir l’impact de cette annonce sur les concurrents du groupe. Est-ce que cela va donner des idées à d’autres fabricants de mémoire ? Est-ce que Micron a simplement saisi l’opportunité de signer un contrat qu’il n’était possible de piloter qu’en élaguant totalement sa branche grand public ? Difficile de savoir ce qui est entré en jeu, mais les sommes doivent être colossales. Parce que Micron et Crucial viennent de tirer un trait de plume sur 29 années d’investissement marketing.

On imagine que les sommes en jeu sont énormes. Maintenant que ce premier acteur est tombé, les gestionnaires des datas center vont pouvoir diriger encore plus d’argent vers ses concurrents pour tenter de sécuriser des capacités d’installation encore plus importantes et ne pas se laisser distancer.

La hausse de la mémoire vive va impacter tout le secteur

HP réagit face à la hausse de la mémoire vive

Micron abandonne mémoire et SSD grand public © MiniMachines.net. 2025

La fameuse question "Can it run Crysis ?" a une réponse : la GeForce RTX 5090 le peut, mais dans quelles conditions ?

En 2007, quand Crysis est arrivé, il a mis une claque à tout ce qui se faisait sur PC, créant de facto un cas d'école et une maxime qui a duré pas mal d'années : "can it run Crysis ?". C'était le mètre étalon pour juger des performances entre cartes graphiques, qui servait de juge, et qui montrait l...

India Pulls Its Preinstalled iPhone App Demand

Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 18:18
India has withdrawn its order requiring Apple and other smartphone makers to preinstall the government's Sanchar Saathi app after public backlash and privacy concerns. AppleInsider reports: On November 28, the India Ministry of Communication issued a secret directive to Apple and other smartphone manufacturers, requiring the preinstallation of a government-backed app. Less than a week later, the order has been rescinded. The withdrawal on Wednesday means Apple doesn't have to preload the Sanchar Saathi app onto iPhones sold in the country, in a way that couldn't be "disabled or restricted." [...] In pulling back from the demand, the government insisted that the app had an "increasing acceptance" among citizens. There was a tenfold spike of new user registrations on Tuesday alone, with over 600,000 new users made aware of the app from the public debacle. India Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia took a moment to insist that concerns the app could be used for increased surveillance were unfounded. "Snooping is neither possible nor will it happen" with the app, Scindia claimed. "This is a welcome development, but we are still awaiting the full text of the legal order that should accompany this announcement, including any revised directions under the Cyber Security Rules, 2024," said the Internet Freedom Foundation. It is treating the news with "cautious optimism, not closure," until formalities conclude. However, while promising, the backdown doesn't stop India from retrying something similar or another tactic in the future.

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