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Aujourd’hui — 14 juin 2024Actualités numériques

Version 256 of systemd Boasts '42% Less Unix Philosophy'

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Par : BeauHD
14 juin 2024 à 22:40
Liam Proven reports via The Register: The latest version of the systemd init system is out, with the openly confrontational tag line: "Available soon in your nearest distro, now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy." As Lennart Poettering's announcement points out, this is the first version of systemd whose version number is a nine-bit value. Version 256, as usual, brings in a broad assortment of new features, but also turns off some older features that are now considered deprecated. For instance, it won't run under cgroups version 1 unless forced. Around since 2008, cgroups is a Linux kernel containerization mechanism originally donated by Google, as The Reg noted a decade ago. Cgroups v2 was merged in 2016 so this isn't a radical change. System V service scripts are now deprecated too, as is the SystemdOptions EFI variable. Additionally, there are some new commands and options. Some are relatively minor, such as the new systemd-vpick binary, which can automatically select the latest member of versioned directories. Before any OpenVMS admirers get excited, no, Linux does not now support versions on files or directories. Instead, this is a fresh option that uses a formalized versioning system involving: "... paths whose trailing components have the .v/ suffix, pointing to a directory. These components will then automatically look for suitable files inside the directory, do a version comparison and open the newest file found (by version)." The latest function, which The Reg FOSS desk suspects will ruffle some feathers, is a whole new command, run0, which effectively replaces the sudo command as used in Apple's macOS and in Ubuntu ever since the first release. Agent P introduced the new command in a Mastodon thread. He says that the key benefit is that run0 doesn't need setuid, a basic POSIX function, which, to quote its Linux manual page, "sets the effective user ID of the calling process." [...] Another new command is importctl, which handles importing and exporting both block-level and file-system-level disk images. And there's a new type of system service called a capsule, and "a small new service manager" called systemd-ssh-generator, which lets VMs and containers accept SSH connections so long as systemd can find the sshd binary -- even if no networking is available. The release notes are available here.

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New York Recovers $50 Million For Defrauded Gemini Earn Crypto Investors

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14 juin 2024 à 22:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: New York Attorney General Letitia James has recovered $50 million from the cryptocurrency platform Gemini Trust to repay investors defrauded in its Gemini Earn program, she said on Friday. Gemini, run by billionaire twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will provide full recoveries to more than 230,000 Earn investors, including 29,000 in New York, and agreed to a ban on operating crypto lending programs in the state. The payout is in addition to James' related $2 billion settlement, opens new tab with crypto lender Genesis Global Capital, which she announced on May 20. "Gemini marketed its Earn program as a way for investors to grow their money, but actually lied and locked investors out of their accounts," James said. "Today's settlement will make defrauded investors whole." The funds will be accessible within seven days, Gemini told investors on Friday. "With this final distribution, Earn users will have received 100% of the assets owed to them," it said. [...] Investors are expected to recover more than they invested because they are being paid in digital assets such as bitcoin , whose value has more than tripled since redemptions were suspended.

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AI Candidate Running For Parliament in the UK Says AI Can Humanize Politics

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 21:22
An artificial intelligence candidate is on the ballot for the United Kingdom's general election next month. From a report: "AI Steve," represented by Sussex businessman Steve Endacott, will appear on the ballot alongside non-AI candidates running to represent constituents in the Brighton Pavilion area of Brighton and Hove, a city on England's southern coast. "AI Steve is the AI co-pilot," Endacott said in an interview. "I'm the real politician going into Parliament, but I'm controlled by my co-pilot." Endacott is the chairman of Neural Voice, a company that creates personalized voice assistants for businesses in the form of an AI avatar. Neural Voice's technology is behind AI Steve, one of the seven characters the company created to showcase its technology. He said the idea is to use AI to create a politician who is always around to talk with constituents and who can take their views into consideration. People can ask AI Steve questions or share their opinions on Endacott's policies on its website, during which a large language model will give answers in voice and text based on a database of information about his party's policies. If he doesn't have a policy for a particular issue raised, the AI will conduct some internet research before engaging the voter and pushing them to suggest a policy.

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Biotech Companies Are Trying To Make Milk Without Cows

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 20:42
Avian influenza outbreaks on US dairy farms have raised concerns about milk safety, leading some to consider alternatives like engineered milk proteins. Startups like Remilk and Alpine Bio are using yeast and soybeans to produce key milk proteins, aiming to replace dairy cows and reduce environmental impact. However, competing with subsidized dairy industries and their efficient use of cow byproducts remains a challenge for these biotech ventures, MIT Technology Review reports. The story adds: Everyone agrees that cow's milk will be difficult to displace. It holds a special place in the human psyche, and we owe civilization itself, in part, to domesticated animals. In fact, they've left their mark in our genes, with many of us carrying DNA mutations that make cow's milk easier to digest. But that's why it might be time for the next technological step, says Alpine's CEO Magi Richani. "We raise 60 billion animals for food every year, and that is insane. We took it too far, and we need options," she says. "We need options that are better for the environment, that overcome the use of antibiotics, and that overcome the disease risk." It's not clear yet whether the bird flu outbreak on dairy farms is a big danger to humans. But making milk without cows would definitely cut the risk that an animal virus will cause a new pandemic. As Richani says: "Soybeans don't transmit diseases to humans."

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Mozilla Defies Kremlin, Restores Banned Firefox Add-ons in Russia

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 20:02
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin. From a report: The browser extensions, which are hosted on the Mozilla store, were made unavailable in the Land of Putin on or around June 8 after a request by the Russian government and its internet censorship agency, Roskomnadzor. Among those extensions were three pieces of code that were explicitly designed to circumvent state censorship -- including a VPN and Censor Tracker, a multi-purpose add-on that allowed users to see what websites shared user data, and a tool to access Tor websites. The day the ban went into effect, Roskomsvoboda -- the developer of Censor Tracker -- took to the official Mozilla forums and asked why his extension was suddenly banned in Russia with no warning.

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How the Recycling Symbol Lost Its Meaning

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 19:30
The iconic recycling symbol, invented 20 years before Earth Day 1990, has become omnipresent on products, often misleading consumers about what can be recycled, according to experts cited in a story explored by Grist. The chasing arrows logo, which promises rebirth for discarded materials, is frequently plastered on items that are not recyclable, particularly plastic products. Confusion over recycling rules has led to contamination at recycling facilities, driving up costs for cities. Only around 5 percent of plastic waste in the United States gets recycled, with much of the rest ending up in landfills or incinerators. Environmental groups have called plastic recycling a "false solution." The trouble began in the 1970s when corporations, facing pressure to address litter, embraced recycling as a way to shift responsibility for waste onto individuals and local governments. The plastics industry introduced a resin code system in 1988, surrounding numbers with the chasing arrows logo, giving the impression that all plastics could be recycled. Despite industry efforts to promote recycling, experts say fulfilling the "urgent need to recycle" has proven difficult and unprofitable. The result is a lack of markets for most recycled plastics, with only 9 percent of all plastics ever produced having been recycled.

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Meta Pauses Plans To Train AI Using European Users' Data, Bowing To Regulatory Pressure

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14 juin 2024 à 18:44
Meta has confirmed that it will pause plans to start training its AI systems using data from its users in the European Union and U.K. From a report: The move follows pushback from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta's lead regulator in the EU, which is acting on behalf of several data protection authorities across the bloc. The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) also requested that Meta pause its plans until it could satisfy concerns it had raised. "The DPC welcomes the decision by Meta to pause its plans to train its large language model using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram across the EU/EEA," the DPC said in a statement Friday. "This decision followed intensive engagement between the DPC and Meta. The DPC, in cooperation with its fellow EU data protection authorities, will continue to engage with Meta on this issue." While Meta is already tapping user-generated content to train its AI in markets such as the U.S., Europe's stringent GDPR regulations has created obstacles for Meta -- and other companies -- looking to improve their AI systems, including large language models with user-generated training material. However, Meta last month began notifying users of an upcoming change to its privacy policy, one that it said will give it the right to use public content on Facebook and Instagram to train its AI, including content from comments, interactions with companies, status updates, photos and their associated captions. The company argued that it needed to do this to reflect "the diverse languages, geography and cultural references of the people in Europe."

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Apple Set To Be First Big Tech Group To Face Charges Under EU Digital Law

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 18:18
An anonymous reader shares a report: Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the first time EU regulators have used new digital rules to target a Big Tech group. The European Commission has determined that the iPhone maker is not complying with obligations to allow app developers to "steer" users to offers outside its App Store without imposing fees on them, according to three people with close knowledge of its investigation. The charges would be the first brought against a tech company under the Digital Markets Act, landmark legislation designed to force powerful "online gatekeepers" to open up their businesses to competition in the EU. The commission, the EU's executive arm, said in March it was investigating Apple, as well as Alphabet and Meta, under powers granted by the DMA. An announcement over the charges against Apple was expected in the coming weeks, said two people with knowledge of the case.

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Sonos Draws More Customer Anger - This Time For Its Privacy Policy

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 17:35
An anonymous reader shares a report: Itâ(TM)s been a rocky couple of months for Sonos -- so much so that CEO Patrick Spence now has a canned autoreply for customers emailing him to vent about the redesigned app. But as the company works to right the ship, restore trust, and get the new Sonos Ace headphones off to a strong start, it finds itself in the middle of yet another controversy. As highlighted by repair technician and consumer privacy advocate Louis Rossmann, Sonos has made a significant change to its privacy policy, at least in the United States, with the removal of one key line. The updated policy no longer contains a sentence that previously said, "Sonos does not and will not sell personal information about our customers." That pledge is still present in other countries, but it's nowhere to be found in the updated US policy, which went into effect earlier this month.

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Troubles en vue chez le pionnier du watercooling AIO ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Matthieu S.)
14 juin 2024 à 17:00

Le danois Asetek est un grand pionnier du watercooling AIO ou All-in-One, qui s'est très largement démocratisé de nos jours, surtout avec des CPU toujours plus chauds. Asetek commercialise ses propres solutions, mais s'est aussi fait un nom en tant qu'OEM pour d'autres marques. Cependant, la réputat...

Visa, Mastercard $30 Billion Fee Settlement in Peril

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 16:42
Visa's and Mastercard's proposed $30 billion antitrust settlement to limit credit and debit card fees for merchants is in peril, after a New York judge signaled she was preparing to reject the accord. From a report: U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie in Brooklyn told lawyers for the card networks and objectors at a hearing on Thursday that she will "likely not approve the settlement," according to court records. She plans to write an opinion explaining her decision and reasoning. Both card networks said they were disappointed. Mastercard called the settlement a "fair resolution" that gave businesses more flexibility in managing card transactions, and Visa called it an "appropriate resolution" to the nearly 19-year-old case.

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☕️ Le prochain PDG de l’ICANN siègera à Genève, mais travaillera beaucoup à Los Angeles

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Par : Jean-Marc Manach
14 juin 2024 à 15:36

Directeur général du London Internet Exchange (LINX) depuis 2019, l’un des principaux opérateurs mondiaux de services d’interconnexion, Kurt Erik « Kurtis » Lindqvist vient d’être nommé CEO de la Société pour l’attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN).

Président d’Euro-IX, l’association européenne des points d’échange Internet, de 2003 à 2020, il a siégé au Conseil d’architecture de l’Internet, présidé des groupes de travail au sein du RIPE et du Groupe de travail de génie Internet (IETF), et prendra officiellement ses fonctions le 5 décembre 2024.

Le communiqué de l’ICANN précise que « Lindqvist sera basé au bureau de l’ICANN à Genève, en Suisse, et passera beaucoup de temps au siège de l’ICANN à Los Angeles, en Californie ».

« C’est un changement qui pourrait être abondamment commenté au sein de la Genève internationale », estime Le Temps : « c’est la première fois qu’un dirigeant de l’Icann pose ses valises en dehors des États-Unis, pays dans lequel l’organisation a été fondée en 1998 ».

Comme nous l’avions alors raconté, l’ICANN avait vu son contrat avec l’État américain expirer en 2016, et réussi à s’émanciper de l’administration états-unienne aux termes de deux ans de tensions et de péripéties, afin d’en redonner le contrôle à la communauté Internet.

Depuis, précise Le Temps, le fait que l’ICANN soit soumis au droit américain à cause de sa présence de son siège à Los Angeles avait suscité des critiques quant à sa capacité à être une organisation neutre, soulevant également la crainte d’une influence accrue des Big Tech’ états-uniennes.

IA : c’est quoi exactement un neurone (informatique), comment ça marche

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Par : Sébastien Gavois
14 juin 2024 à 15:46
C’est un truc qui fait des calculs
Un crâne ouvert au sommet sert de piscine à un homme qui se baigne dans une bouée canard, le tout sur fond bleu tirant vers le noir.

Neurone… c’est un mot qui revient souvent quand on parle d’intelligence artificielle. Mais c’est quoi exactement un neurone artificiel ? Comment ça marche et à quoi ça sert ? On vous explique simplement, avec un petit détour dans les années 40 pour remonter à sa création.

Au cours des derniers mois, nous vous avons proposé un petit lexique des termes courants utilisés en intelligence artificielle. Le but : vous permettre de bien comprendre de quoi il en retourne et d’appréhender les changements majeurs que l’IA apporte actuellement.

AGI, modèles de fondation, prompt injection, empoisonnement, inférence, hallucination, paramètre, quantification, neurone… Tous ces mots ne devraient plus trop avoir de secret pour vous. Mais un élément mérite qu’on s’attarde davantage sur son fonctionnement : le neurone, qui est à la base des IA modernes.

Dessine-moi un neurone

Une fois n’est pas coutume, on va donner une présentation des plus simplistes du neurone, puis vous expliquer plus finement de quoi il en retourne. Un neurone, c’est simplement un outil mathématique qui réalise une somme pondérée de variables. Voilà, vous pouvez passer à autre chose… ou bien continuer à nous lire et en savoir bien plus.


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☕️ Le prochain PDG de l’ICANN siègera à Genève, mais travaillera beaucoup à Los Angeles

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Par : Jean-Marc Manach
14 juin 2024 à 15:36

Directeur général du London Internet Exchange (LINX) depuis 2019, l’un des principaux opérateurs mondiaux de services d’interconnexion, Kurt Erik « Kurtis » Lindqvist vient d’être nommé CEO de la Société pour l’attribution des noms de domaine et des numéros sur Internet (ICANN).

Président d’Euro-IX, l’association européenne des points d’échange Internet, de 2003 à 2020, il a siégé au Conseil d’architecture de l’Internet, présidé des groupes de travail au sein du RIPE et du Groupe de travail de génie Internet (IETF), et prendra officiellement ses fonctions le 5 décembre 2024.

Le communiqué de l’ICANN précise que « Lindqvist sera basé au bureau de l’ICANN à Genève, en Suisse, et passera beaucoup de temps au siège de l’ICANN à Los Angeles, en Californie ».

« C’est un changement qui pourrait être abondamment commenté au sein de la Genève internationale », estime Le Temps : « c’est la première fois qu’un dirigeant de l’Icann pose ses valises en dehors des États-Unis, pays dans lequel l’organisation a été fondée en 1998 ».

Comme nous l’avions alors raconté, l’ICANN avait vu son contrat avec l’État américain expirer en 2016, et réussi à s’émanciper de l’administration états-unienne aux termes de deux ans de tensions et de péripéties, afin d’en redonner le contrôle à la communauté Internet.

Depuis, précise Le Temps, le fait que l’ICANN soit soumis au droit américain à cause de sa présence de son siège à Los Angeles avait suscité des critiques quant à sa capacité à être une organisation neutre, soulevant également la crainte d’une influence accrue des Big Tech’ états-uniennes.

Palit, en roue libre, nous sort la plus épaisse GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER du marché : la GameRock OmniBlack

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
14 juin 2024 à 15:30

Vous connaissez sans doute déjà la gamme GameRock de la marque Palit. Sinon, vous pouvez consulter le test de la Palit GeForce RTX 4090 GameRock OC réalisé par Thibaut.Après la série originelle GameRock la firme avait ensuite inauguré les GameRock Premium et même GameRock OmniBlack. C'est à cette de...

Rent is Too Dang High in Cities: Skylines 2, So the Devs Nuked the Landlords

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 16:00
An anonymous reader shares a report: City building simulations are not real life. They can be helpful teaching tools, but they abstract away many of the real issues in changing communities. And yet, sometimes a game like Cities: Skylines 2 (C:S2) will present an issue that's just too timely and relevant to ignore. Such is the case with "Economy 2.0," a big update to the beleaguered yet continually in-development game, due to arrive within the next week or so. The first and most important thing it tackles is the persistent issue of "High Rent," something that's bothering the in-game citizens ("cims" among fans), C:S2 players, and nearly every human living in the United States and many other places. C:S2 has solutions to high rent, at least for their virtual citizens. They removed the "virtual landlord" that takes in rent, so now a building's upkeep is evenly split among renters. There's a new formula for calculating rent, one that evokes a kind of elegant mathematical certainty none of us will ever see: "Rent = (LandValue + (ZoneType * Building Level)) * LotSize * SpaceMultiplier"

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The Stanford Internet Observatory is Being Dismantled

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Par : msmash
14 juin 2024 à 15:20
An anonymous reader shares a report: After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down. Its founding director, Alex Stamos, left his position in November. Renee DiResta, its research director, left last week after her contract was not renewed. One other staff member's contract expired this month, while others have been told to look for jobs elsewhere, sources say. Some members of the eight-person team might find other jobs at Stanford, and it's possible that the university will retain the Stanford Internet Observatory branding, according to sources familiar with the matter. But the lab will not conduct research into the 2024 election or other elections in the future.

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