President Donald Trump's administration plans to restrict shipments of AI chips from the likes of Nvidia to Malaysia and Thailand, part of an effort to crack down on suspected semiconductor smuggling into China. Bloomberg: A draft rule from the Commerce Department seeks to prevent China -- to which the US has effectively banned sales of Nvidia's advanced AI processors -- from obtaining those components through intermediaries in the two Southeast Asian nations, according to people familiar with the matter. The rule is not yet finalized and could still change, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.
Officials plan to pair the Malaysia and Thailand controls with a formal rescission of global curbs from the so-called AI diffusion rule, the people said.
A new study analyzing data from more than 60 previous research projects has found evidence that there is "no safe amount" of processed meat consumption -- so much so that even small daily portions are being linked to increased disease risk.
The research, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, examined connections between processed meats, sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids and the risk of type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer and ischemic heart disease. People who ate as little as one hot dog daily showed an 11% greater risk of type 2 diabetes and 7% increased risk of colorectal cancer compared to those who consumed none. Drinking approximately one 12-ounce soda per day was associated with an 8% increase in type 2 diabetes risk and 2% increased risk of ischemic heart disease.
Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...
The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...
Moderna's mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine proved 27% more effective at preventing influenza infections than standard flu shots in a Phase 3 trial involving nearly 41,000 people aged 50 and above, the firm said this week.
The company announced that mRNA-1010 had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6% higher than conventional shots, rising to 27.4% higher in participants aged 65 and older during the six-month study period. The 2024-2025 flu season hospitalized an estimated 770,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
UK Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK's national institute for AI to tell its bosses to refocus on defense and security. BBC: In a letter, Kyle said boosting the UK's AI capabilities was "critical" to national security and should be at the core of the Alan Turing Institute's activities. Kyle suggested the institute should overhaul its leadership team to reflect its "renewed purpose."
The cabinet minister said further government investment in the institute would depend on the "delivery of the vision" he had outlined in the letter. A spokesperson for the Alan Turing Institute said it welcomed "the recognition of our critical role and will continue to work closely with the government to support its priorities." Further reading, from April: Alan Turing Institute Plans Revamp in Face of Criticism and Technological Change.
An anonymous reader shares a report: The sweeping layoffs announced by Microsoft this week have been especially hard on its gaming studios, but one Xbox executive has a solution to "help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss": seek advice from AI chatbots.
In a now-deleted LinkedIn post captured by Aftermath, Xbox Game Studios' Matt Turnbull said that he would be "remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the circumstances." The circumstances here being a slew of game cancellations, services being shuttered, studio closures, and job cuts across key Xbox divisions as Microsoft lays off as many as 9,100 employees across the company.
Turnbull acknowledged that people have some "strong feelings" about AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, but suggested that anybody who's feeling "overwhelmed" could use them to get advice about creating resumes, career planning, and applying for new roles.
Windows 11 has finally overtaken the market share of its predecessor, with just three months remaining until Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10. From a report: As of today, July's StatCounter figures show the market share of Windows 11 at 50.24 percent, with Windows 10 at 46.84 percent. It's a far cry from a year ago, when Windows 10 stood at 66.04 percent and Windows 11 languished at 29.75 percent.
L’Arcep vient de publier l’édition 2025 de son rapport sur l’état de l’internet en France. Quatre vingt-quatre pages, avec certes plusieurs infographies, mais surtout des tonnes de texte écrit tout petit... [Tout lire]
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...
Nouveau record absolu du prix le plus bas constaté sur une GeForce RTX 5070 ! Seulement 539,99 €. C'est bien plus bas que le prix officiel conseillé lors du lancement début mars 2025 qui était pour rappel de 649 €, plus bas également que l'ajustement fait un peu plus tard dans le mois par NVIDIA, qu...
Software developer Anton Zaides argues that software engineers have had it easy over the decades and the "best profession" on earth deserved the wake up call. He writes:It's not just one of the hardest times, it's also one of the most exciting.
I'm hugely optimistic about the software engineering career. All those companies started by vibe-coders all around you? Many will succeed, and will need great engineers to scale up.
Some engineers understand this, and use the chance to skill up. To succeed, you'll probably need all the skills of an engineer, some of a PM, and even a bit of design taste. It's not just about shipping code anymore.
But if you work as a code monkey, getting detailed tickets and just shipping them, you've done this to yourself. You won't be needed pretty soon.
I believe there are too many mediocre engineers, but also not enough great ones.
Une petite actualité légère en cette soirée du vendredi. L'intelligence artificielle devient peu à peu omniprésente autour de nous, mais son adoption par tout un chacun se fait de manière très hétérogène et alors que nombre d'entre vous est sans doute déjà bien rodé sur la chose, peut-être même à de...
Climate change is already having an impact on companies around the world. More than half of companies surveyed by Morgan Stanley experienced climate-related operational disruptions within the past year, including increased costs, worker disruption and revenue losses. Extreme heat and storms caused the most frequent disruptions, followed by wildfires and smoke, water shortages, and flooding.
The US spent nearly $1 trillion on disaster recovery and climate-related needs over the past year, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysis, while nearly two-thirds of Tampa metro businesses reported losses from hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Researchers have discovered that appending irrelevant phrases like "Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives" to math problems can cause state-of-the-art reasoning AI models to produce incorrect answers at rates over 300% higher than normal [PDF]. The technique -- dubbed "CatAttack" by teams from Collinear AI, ServiceNow, and Stanford University -- exploits vulnerabilities in reasoning models including DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI's o1 family. The adversarial triggers work across any math problem without changing the problem's meaning, making them particularly concerning for security applications.
The researchers developed their attack method using a weaker proxy model (DeepSeek V3) to generate text triggers that successfully transferred to more advanced reasoning models. Testing on 225 math problems showed the triggers increased error rates significantly across different problem types, with some models like R1-Distill-Qwen-32B reaching combined attack success rates of 2.83 times baseline error rates. Beyond incorrect answers, the triggers caused models to generate responses up to three times longer than normal, creating computational slowdowns. Even when models reached correct conclusions, response lengths doubled in 16% of cases, substantially increasing processing costs.
Newspaper Pakistan Today: In a significant moment for Pakistan's technology sector, Microsoft has officially shut down its operations in the country, concluding a 25-year journey that began with high hopes for digital transformation and global partnership.
The move, confirmed by employees and media sources, marks the quiet departure of the software giant, which had launched its Pakistan presence in June 2000. The last remaining employees were formally informed of the closure in recent days, signalling the end of an era that saw Microsoft play a key role in developing local talent, building enterprise partnerships, and promoting digital literacy across sectors.
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...
La branche média du groupe CMA CGM piloté par Rodolphe Saadé a dévoilé vendredi son entrée en négociations exclusives pour le rachat du média vidéo Brut, dont elle était jusqu’ici actionnaire minoritaire.
« Cette acquisition marquerait une nouvelle étape majeure dans la transformation stratégique de CMA Media, qui deviendrait ainsi le premier groupe de presse et audiovisuel à se projeter avec autant d’ampleur dans le digital », indique le groupe dans un communiqué.
L’acquéreur évalue la portée mensuelle de Brut à plus de 500 millions spectateurs dans 100 pays, avec « une audience organique inégalée sur YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook et Snapchat ». Brut, qui diffuse nativement sur les réseaux sociaux, présenterait ainsi une complémentarité « unique » avec les audiences réalisées par RMC BFM, la dernière grande acquisition de CMA Media, bouclée au printemps 2024 pour 1,55 milliard d’euros.
« Cette opération s’inscrirait dans une logique d’investissement de long terme, reflétant pleinement la valeur stratégique de Brut., son positionnement de référence, le potentiel de croissance internationale et la puissance d’influence de la marque », revendique encore CMA Media, qui sortirait ainsi pour la première fois de l’Hexagone.
Brut, lancé en 2016, aurait d’après le Monde levé environ 140 millions d’euros depuis sa création et compterait parmi ses actionnaires Xavier Niel, François-Henri Pinault, Orange et, depuis 2023, CMA CGM.
En juin 2024, l’Informé révélait que cette participation portait sur 16% du capital, en échange de près de 43 millions d’euros. L’opération valorisait donc, à l’époque, Brut à environ 268 millions d’euros.
« Les fondateurs et l’équipe dirigeante de Brut. resteraient pleinement impliqués dans cette nouvelle phase, afin de préserver l’ADN qui fait la singularité et la crédibilité du média : un journalisme exigeant, des formats natifs et une voix engagée sur les grands enjeux sociaux, environnementaux et culturels », précisent Brut et CMA CGM.
Le compte Instagram principal de Brut affiche 5,1 millions d’abonnés
La branche média du groupe CMA CGM piloté par Rodolphe Saadé a dévoilé vendredi son entrée en négociations exclusives pour le rachat du média vidéo Brut, dont elle était jusqu’ici actionnaire minoritaire.
« Cette acquisition marquerait une nouvelle étape majeure dans la transformation stratégique de CMA Media, qui deviendrait ainsi le premier groupe de presse et audiovisuel à se projeter avec autant d’ampleur dans le digital », indique le groupe dans un communiqué.
L’acquéreur évalue la portée mensuelle de Brut à plus de 500 millions spectateurs dans 100 pays, avec « une audience organique inégalée sur YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook et Snapchat ». Brut, qui diffuse nativement sur les réseaux sociaux, présenterait ainsi une complémentarité « unique » avec les audiences réalisées par RMC BFM, la dernière grande acquisition de CMA Media, bouclée au printemps 2024 pour 1,55 milliard d’euros.
« Cette opération s’inscrirait dans une logique d’investissement de long terme, reflétant pleinement la valeur stratégique de Brut., son positionnement de référence, le potentiel de croissance internationale et la puissance d’influence de la marque », revendique encore CMA Media, qui sortirait ainsi pour la première fois de l’Hexagone.
Brut, lancé en 2016, aurait d’après le Monde levé environ 140 millions d’euros depuis sa création et compterait parmi ses actionnaires Xavier Niel, François-Henri Pinault, Orange et, depuis 2023, CMA CGM.
En juin 2024, l’Informé révélait que cette participation portait sur 16% du capital, en échange de près de 43 millions d’euros. L’opération valorisait donc, à l’époque, Brut à environ 268 millions d’euros.
« Les fondateurs et l’équipe dirigeante de Brut. resteraient pleinement impliqués dans cette nouvelle phase, afin de préserver l’ADN qui fait la singularité et la crédibilité du média : un journalisme exigeant, des formats natifs et une voix engagée sur les grands enjeux sociaux, environnementaux et culturels », précisent Brut et CMA CGM.
Le compte Instagram principal de Brut affiche 5,1 millions d’abonnés
Valve has achieved near-total dominance of PC gaming distribution through Steam, but the victory appears to have left the company adrift, Financial Times argues. The platform controls an estimated 70% of PC game sales while generating billions in revenue, yet Valve releases major new games at what observers call a "glacial pace."
Founder Gabe Newell has largely retreated from the company's operations, reportedly living at sea on one of his five ships and pursuing side projects like brain-computer interface startup Starfish Neuroscience. The much-anticipated third Half-Life game became "the video game equivalent of Samuel Beckett's Godot" before being quietly cancelled.
Attempts to challenge Steam have failed repeatedly. Epic Games Store, powered by Fortnite's success, "has failed to really impact Steam in any meaningful way," according to industry analysts. Microsoft runs what analysts describe as a "somewhat unambitious store," while EA shut down its Origin launcher earlier this year. Gaming analyst Michael Pachter notes that major tech companies could displace Valve "but nobody cares" enough to mount a serious challenge.
Court documents suggest Steam's revenues will exceed $10 billion next year, leaving Valve with unprecedented profits but unclear direction for a company that appears to have run out of worlds to conquer.
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