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Aujourd’hui — 1 juin 2024Actualités numériques

Apple's AI Plans Include 'Black Box' For Cloud Data

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Par : EditorDavid
1 juin 2024 à 17:34
How will Apple protect user data while their requests are being processed by AI in applications like Siri? Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from Apple Insider: According to sources of The Information [four different former Apple employees who worked on the project], Apple intends to process data from AI applications inside a virtual black box. The concept, known as "Apple Chips in Data Centers" internally, would involve only Apple's hardware being used to perform AI processing in the cloud. The idea is that it will control both the hardware and software on its servers, enabling it to design more secure systems. While on-device AI processing is highly private, the initiative could make cloud processing for Apple customers to be similarly secure... By taking control over how data is processed in the cloud, it would make it easier for Apple to implement processes to make a breach much harder to actually happen. Furthermore, the black box approach would also prevent Apple itself from being able to see the data. As a byproduct, this means it would also be difficult for Apple to hand over any personal data from government or law enforcement data requests. Processed data from the servers would be stored in Apple's "Secure Enclave" (where the iPhone stores biometric data, encryption keys and passwords), according to the article. "Doing so means the data can't be seen by other elements of the system, nor Apple itself."

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Electric Car Sales Keep Increasing in California, Despite 'Negative Hype'

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Par : EditorDavid
1 juin 2024 à 16:34
This week the Washington Post reported that Americans "are more hesitant to buy EVs now than they were a year ago, according to a March Gallup poll, which found that just 44 percent of American adults say they'd consider buying an EV in the future, down from 55 percent last year. High prices and charging worries consistently rank as the biggest roadblocks for electric vehicles," they write, noting the concerns coincide with a slowdown in electric car and truck sales, while hybrids are increasing their market share. But something else happened this week. The chair of California's Air Resource Board and the chair of the state's Energy Commission teamed up for an op-ed piece arguing that "despite negative hype," electric cars are their state's future: When California's electric vehicle sales dipped at the end of last year, critics predicted the start of a new downward trend that would doom the industry and the state's broader effort to clean up the transportation sector, the single largest source of greenhouse gases and air pollution. But the latest numbers show that's not the case. Californians purchased 108,372 new zero-emission vehicles in the first three months of 2024 — nearly 7,000 more than the same time last year and the highest-ever first-quarter sales. Today, one in four new cars sold in the Golden State is electric, up from just 8% in 2020... California is now home to 56 manufacturers of zero-emission vehicles and related products, making our state a hub for cutting-edge automotive technology. Soon even raw materials will be sourced in-state, paving the way for domestic battery production... Challenges persist, and chief among them is the need for more widely available charging options. Many more charging stations need to be built as fast as possible to keep up with EV adoption. To address this, California is investing $4 billion over six years to rapidly build out the EV refueling network, on top of billions in investment by utilities. Equally essential is improved reliability of the EV charging network. Too many drivers today encounter faulty charging stations, which is why the California Energy Commission is developing the strongest charging reliability standards in the country and will require companies to be transparent with the public about their performance. They also point out that California "now boasts more EV chargers in the state than gasoline nozzles." And that it's become the first U.S. state whose best-selling car is electric.

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L'AM4 toujours pas mort : les AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT et Ryzen 7 5800XT en approche ?!

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

Après son premier leak au sujet des AMD Ryzen 9000X supprimé, @CodeCommando_ a récidivé avec cette fois un message concernant le lancement de deux nouveaux processeurs AMD pour la plateforme AM4 : les Ryzen 9 5900XT et Ryzen 7 5800XT. Comme vous pouvez vous en douter, ce message a subi le même sort...

World's First Bioprocessor Uses 16 Human Brain Organoids, Consumes Less Power

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Par : EditorDavid
1 juin 2024 à 15:34
"A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to 16 human brain organoids," reports Tom's Hardware: FinalSpark claims its Neuroplatform is the world's first online platform delivering access to biological neurons in vitro. Moreover, bioprocessors like this "consume a million times less power than traditional digital processors," the company says. FinalSpark says its Neuroplatform is capable of learning and processing information, and due to its low power consumption, it could reduce the environmental impacts of computing. In a recent research paper about its developments, FinalSpakr claims that training a single LLM like GPT-3 required approximately 10GWh — about 6,000 times greater energy consumption than the average European citizen uses in a whole year. Such energy expenditure could be massively cut following the successful deployment of bioprocessors. The operation of the Neuroplatform currently relies on an architecture that can be classified as wetware: the mixing of hardware, software, and biology. The main innovation delivered by the Neuroplatform is through the use of four Multi-Electrode Arrays (MEAs) housing the living tissue — organoids, which are 3D cell masses of brain tissue...interfaced by eight electrodes used for both stimulation and recording... FinalSpark has given access to its remote computing platform to nine institutions to help spur bioprocessing research and development. With such institutions' collaboration, it hopes to create the world's first living processor. FinalSpark was founded in 2014, according to Wikipedia's page on wetware computing. "While a wetware computer is still largely conceptual, there has been limited success with construction and prototyping, which has acted as a proof of the concept's realistic application to computing in the future." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov for sharing the article.

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How an Apple AirTag Helped Police Recover 15,000 Stolen Power Tools

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Par : EditorDavid
1 juin 2024 à 14:34
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Twice before, this Virginia carpenter had awoken in the predawn to start his work day only to find one of his vans broken into. Tools he depends on for a living had been stolen, and there was little hope of retrieving them. Determined to shut down thieves, he said, he bought a bunch of Apple AirTags and hid the locator devices in some of his larger tools that hadn't been pilfered. Next time, he figured, he would track them. It worked. On Jan. 22, after a third break-in and theft, the carpenter said, he drove around D.C.'s Maryland suburbs for hours, following an intermittent blip on his iPhone, until he arrived at a storage facility in Howard County. He called police, who got a search warrant, and what they found in the locker was far more than just one contractor's nail guns and miter saws. The storage unit, stuffed with purloined power tools, led detectives to similar caches in other places in the next four months — 12 locations in all, 11 of them in Howard County — and the recovery of about 15,000 saws, drills, sanders, grinders, generators, batteries, air compressors and other portable (meaning easily stealable) construction equipment worth an estimated $3 million to $5 million, authorities said. Some were stolen as long ago as 2014, a police spokesperson told the Washington Post, coming from "hundreds if not thousands" of victims...

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Les caractéristiques des AMD Ryzen 9000X connues ? Les X3D prévus au 3ème trimestre 2024 ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
1 juin 2024 à 12:20

Dans la foulée de la fuite en provenance de chez GIGABYTE, une autre source vient apporter du grain à moudre au sujet des futurs processeurs AMD Ryzen 9000 pour la plateforme AM5, également connus sous leur nom de code Granite Ridge. Une gamme très attendue, puisqu'elle inaugurera l'architecture Zen...

Grosse fuite chez GIGABYTE sur les Ryzen 9000 et chipsets AMD 800 ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
1 juin 2024 à 10:09

Hier, @wxnod a posté sur X.com une série de 16 diapositives qui viendraient de documents internes à AORUS, qui appartient pour rappel à GIGABYTE :
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— Алексей (@wxnod) May 31, 2024

Les 16 diapositives sont condensées en une seule image verticale de...

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Computex 2024 : ils font leur grand retour, des annonces importantes en perspective ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
30 mai 2024 à 18:00

Le Computex 2024 aura lieu, pour rappel, du mardi 4 juin au vendredi 7 juin 2024. Nous avons fait le tour des différentes marques qui auront un stand dédié lors de cette édition et avons remarqué que plusieurs d'entre elles font leur grand retour, après parfois de longues années d'absence. Est-ce qu...

Cortex-X925 / A725 / A520, la gamme 2024 de cœurs Arm est dévoilée

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
30 mai 2024 à 06:18

Arm vient d'officialiser sa gamme 2024 de cœurs CPU Armv9.2. Alors attention, quand on parle de gamme 2024, c'est car les architectures sont désormais lancées dans le grand bain, mais il faudra maintenant laisser le temps aux différents fabricants de puces de mettre au point leurs designs. On pense...

Des cartes mères AMD B850, B840 mais aussi Intel Z890, B860 et H810 en préparation chez MAXSUN ?

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
29 mai 2024 à 16:45

L'étau se resserre autour des futures générations de cartes mères. Après la marque dont on ne doit pas prononcer le nom puis MSI, un peu d'exotisme avec le fabricant MAXSUN, peu connu en France mais bien plus en Asie. Ce qui est intéressant, c'est que cette fois la fuite d'information concerne non s...

[Bon plan] Pack Logitech casque G PRO X Wireless + souris G PRO X Superlight à 169,99 € livré

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
29 mai 2024 à 09:00

Le problème intrinsèque des packs, c'est l'obligation d'acquérir simultanément plusieurs produits alors qu'on n'a pas forcément l'intention à la base de tous les acheter. Ainsi, loin de nous l'idée de vous pousser à l'achat si un seul des deux périphériques du jour vous tente. Si, en revanche, le ha...

[Bon plan] Intel Core i5-12400F à 108,51 € livré !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
28 mai 2024 à 10:31

C'est le meilleur prix jamais vu sur le Intel Core i5-12400F, ce très bon processeur d'entrée de gamme pour qui ne veut pas non plus sacrifier les performances à la fois en jeu et en production, mais doit composer avec la dure réalité d'un budget très limité, ne lui permettant de viser bien haut. Vo...

[Bon plan] AMD Ryzen 5 7600X + MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI à 364,90 €

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
28 mai 2024 à 06:54

Vous envisagez de passer à l'AM5 et prenez soin de votre budget ? Voici une offre sympathique qui permet d'obtenir chez un revendeur français l'équivalent des meilleurs tarifs disponibles actuellement en Europe, tout en profitant donc de la réglementation française bien plus stricte et en faveur du...

MSI préparerait 12 cartes mères LGA1851 Intel Z890 et B860 avec connectivité sans fil

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
28 mai 2024 à 06:30

Après une première marque "dont on ne doit pas prononcer le nom" qui avait vu ses cartes mères Intel Z890 probablement fuiter il y a quelques jours de cela, c'est au tour de MSI de ne pas avoir le contrôle sur la divulgation d'une information au sujet de sa future gamme LGA1851. Comme vous le savez,...

[Bon plan] GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7900 XT GAMING OC à 701,99 € après ODR

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (David S.)
27 mai 2024 à 14:30

C'est vraiment une excellente offre qui se propose à vous si la AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vous fait de l'œil et que vous n'êtes pas allergiques aux offres de remboursement. D'un côté, nous avons Top Achat qui, grâce au code réduction OVERPOWER, vend actuellement la GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7900 XT GAMING OC à...

Company will Convert GM's Electric Vans into Speedy Mobile Superchargers for Fleets

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Par : EditorDavid
27 mai 2024 à 11:34
Nashville-based Yoshi Mobility launched in 2015 to deliver gasoline to vehicle owners, reports Forbes. But this week the company announced they'll begin converting GM electric delivery vans into "mobile EV superchargers" — fast, battery-powered 240 kw DC chargers — for corporate fleets of electric cars. "There's kind of this critical grid problem and so we think that we can accelerate towards an EV future and this is a unique way that we can do it," said [cofounder/CEO Bryan] Frist in an interview. "The mobile charger can charge and then it can multiplex all the spots. So we tell people, it can electrify every spot in your parking lot." Each mobile supercharger can service between five and seven vehicles according to Frist. With perhaps two superchargers operating on a fleet operator's lot, one would service a vehicle while the other supercharger would replenish its own charge off the grid and they would alternate, according to Frist. "What we say is we can do that same charge instead of three and a half hours, we can do in 10 minutes, and we can move around your lot," Frist says. "You don't have to put in all the infrastructure. You don't have to build it out. You just contract with us." The company plans to begin with a "handful" of mobile superchargers in [GM's] BrightDrop vans but expects to ramp up production and begin commercializing more widely during the first quarter of 2025... The mobile superchargers will complement Yoshi Mobility's existing offering of high-capacity mobile generators that sit on a fleet operator's lot putting out as much as a megawatt of power and can service a larger number of vehicles than the mobile units.

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Food Industry Launches 'Ferocious' Campaign Against Regulations on Ultraprocessed Foods

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Par : EditorDavid
27 mai 2024 à 07:36
Studies show ultraprocessed food "encourages overeating but may leave the eater undernourished," writes Ars Technica. But the food industry's response has been "a ferocious campaign against regulation." In part it has used the same lobbying playbook as its fight against labeling and taxation of "junk food" high in calories: big spending to influence policymakers. FT analysis of US lobbying data from non-profit Open Secrets found that food and soft drinks-related companies spent $106 million on lobbying in 2023, almost twice as much as the tobacco and alcohol industries combined. Last year's spend was 21 percent higher than in 2020, with the increase driven largely by lobbying relating to food processing as well as sugar. In an echo of tactics employed by cigarette companies, the food industry has also attempted to stave off regulation by casting doubt on the research of scientists like [Brazilian nutritional scientist Carlos] Monteiro. "The strategy I see the food industry using is deny, denounce, and delay," says Barry Smith, director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London and a consultant for companies on the multisensory experience of food and drink. So far the strategy has proved successful. Just a handful of countries, including Belgium, Israel, and Brazil, currently refer to UPFs in their dietary guidelines. But as the weight of evidence about UPFs grows, public health experts say the only question now is how, if at all, it is translated into regulation. "There's scientific agreement on the science," says Jean Adams, professor of dietary public health at the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. "It's how to interpret that to make a policy that people aren't sure of." [...] As researchers have learned more about the link between UPFs and poor health outcomes, companies have remained largely silent about these risks, leaving trade bodies that advocate on their behalf to argue loudly against the validity of the research.

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1 in 9 American Kids Were Diagnosed With ADHD, New Study Finds

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Par : EditorDavid
27 mai 2024 à 04:35
"About 1 in 9 children in the U.S., between the ages of 3 and 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD," reports NPR: That's according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that calls attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder an "expanding public health concern." Researchers found that in 2022, 7.1 million kids and adolescents in the U.S. had received an ADHD diagnosis — a million more children than in 2016. That jump in diagnoses was not surprising, given that the data was collected during the pandemic, says Melissa Danielson, a statistician with the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and the study's lead author. She notes that other studies have found that many children experienced heightened stress, depression and anxiety during the pandemic. "A lot of those diagnoses... might have been the result of a child being assessed for a different diagnosis, something like anxiety or depression, and their clinician identifying that the child also had ADHD," Danielson says. The increase in diagnoses also comes amid growing awareness of ADHD — and the different ways that it can manifest in children... The study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, was based on data from the National Survey of Children's Health, which gathers detailed information from parents.

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America Has One Public Charger for Every 20 Electric Cars

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Par : EditorDavid
27 mai 2024 à 03:04
This week the Washington Post noted that just last year nearly 1.2 million more electric vehicles were sold in America, "accounting for over 7 percent of total new car sales and a new national record." But "data show that EV sales are far outpacing growth in the U.S. charging network... In 2016, there were seven electric cars for each public charging point; today, there's more than 20 electric cars per charger." The article points out that 80% of America's EV's are just charging at home, according to the U.S. Energy Department. (Which seems to leave one public charger for every four EVs that don't charge at home.) And the article notes several other important caveats: Experts say that there is no "magic number" for the best ratio of EVs on the road to public chargers. "It absolutely depends on the local landscape," said Peter Slowik, U.S. passenger vehicles lead for the International Council on Clean Transportation. Globally, there is about 1 public charger for every 11 EVs, according to the International Energy Agency. But in countries where there are more single-family homes and garages, the ratio could be lower.... In a way, the United States' slow charging build-out could be a benefit in the long-term: Many automakers have now promised to switch to Tesla's charging connector in the next few years, which could help put most cars on the same system. Not everyone agrees there is a delay. Slowik says that his team's research shows that the United States is on-track for building out the charging needed over the next eight years. An increase in the number of EVs per public charger is a natural part of the adoption process, he argues, that will subside with more sales and as more chargers come online. Still, the article argues if Americans continue buying electric cars, public chargers will be essential "to support long road trips, help apartment-dwellers go electric and alleviate overnight pressure on electricity grids." Today U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg reiterated America's commitment to having a national network of 500,000 charges by 2030, saying the country is at "the absolute very, very beginning stages of the construction to come."

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