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Un Hotfix chez NVIDIA pour hotfixer des bugs résiduels

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
5 juin 2025 à 05:50

Avec la valse des pilotes NVIDIA, nous allons proposer à l'Académie Française de valider le verbe Hotfixer, après tout, y a des tas de mots qui y sont entrés alors qu'ils ne le méritaient pas, juste pour coller à l'air du temps. Le Hotfix 576.66 est basé sur le pilote 576.52 paru le 19 mai dernier....

Meta's Push Into Defense Tech Reflects Cultural Shift, CTO Says

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Par :msmash
5 juin 2025 à 04:30
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said that the "tides have turned" in Silicon Valley and made it more palatable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts. From a report: There's long existed a "silent majority" who wanted to pursue defense projects, Bosworth said during an interview at the Bloomberg Tech summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. "There's a much stronger patriotic underpinning than I think people give Silicon Valley credit for," he said. Silicon Valley was founded on military development and "there's really a long history here that we are kind of hoping to return to, but it is not even day one," Bosworth added. He described Silicon Valley's new openness to work with the US military as a "return to grace."

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Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches

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Par :BeauHD
5 juin 2025 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating that Chinese attackers penetrated the US communications system earlier than publicly known. Investigators working for the telecommunications firm discovered last year that malware used by Chinese state-backed hacking groups was on the company's systems for seven months starting in the summer of 2023, according to two people familiar with the matter and a document seen by Bloomberg News. The document, an unclassified report sent to Western intelligence agencies, doesn't name the company where the malware was found and the people familiar with the matter declined to identify it. The 2023 intrusion at an American telecommunications company, which hasn't been previously reported, came about a year before US government officials and cybersecurity companies said they began spotting clues that Chinese hackers had penetrated many of the country's largest phone and wireless firms. The US government has blamed the later breaches on a Chinese state-backed hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon. It's unclear if the 2023 hack is related to that foreign espionage campaign and, if so, to what degree. Nonetheless, it raises questions about when Chinese intruders established a foothold in the American communications industry. "We've known for a long time that this infrastructure has been vulnerable and was likely subject to attack," said Marc Rogers, a cybersecurity and telecommunications expert. "What this shows us is that it was attacked, and that going as far back as 2023, the Chinese were compromising our telecom companies." Investigators linked the sophisticated rootkit malware Demodex to China's Ministry of State Security, noting it enabled deep, stealthy access to systems and remained undetected on a U.S. defense-linked company's network until early 2024. A Chinese government spokesperson denied responsibility for cyberattacks and accused the U.S. and its allies of spreading disinformation and conducting cyber operations against China.

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Apple's Attempt To Pause App Store Antitrust Order Fails

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Par :BeauHD
5 juin 2025 à 00:45
Apple's emergency request to pause a court order forcing it to ease App Store restrictions was denied by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing new compliance rules to take effect while Apple continues to appeal. 9to5Mac reports: Apple had asked the appeals court to halt enforcement of a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who found Apple in contempt this April for effectively dodging her original injunction. Convoluted, right? Exactly. The judge observed several violations, including Apple's imposition of a 27% fee on out-of-app transactions and overall attempts to continue making it unappealing for developers to direct users to external payment options. As Reuters noted: "In its emergency appeal, Apple said the ruling blocked the company from "exercising control over core aspects of its business operations' and forced it to give away free access to its services." In rejecting Apple's motion, the court is letting those new compliance requirements stand while the company appeals the decision. Apple had hoped to halt the enforcement until the decision was final, which would grant the company the right to roll back the changes it was recently compelled to implement. In a statement provided to 9to5Mac, Apple said: "We are disappointed with the decision not to stay the district court's order, and we'll continue to argue our case during the appeals process. As we've said before, we strongly disagree with the district court's opinion. Our goal is to ensure the App Store remains an incredible opportunity for developers and a safe and trusted experience for our users."

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WHIP Muxer Merged To FFmpeg For Sub-Second Latency Streaming

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Par :BeauHD
5 juin 2025 à 00:02
FFmpeg has added support for WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol), enabling sub-second latency live streaming by leveraging WebRTC's fast, secure video delivery capabilities. It's a major update that introduces a new WHIP muxer to make FFmpeg more powerful for real-time broadcasting applications. Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports: WHIP uses HTTP for exchanging initial information and capabilities and then uses STUN binding to establish a UDP session. Encryption is supported -- and due to WebRTC, mandatory -- with WHIP and audio/video frames are split into RTP packets. WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol is an IETF standard for ushering low-latency communication over WebRTC to help with streaming/broadcasting uses. With this FFmpeg commit introducing nearly three thousand lines of new code, an initial WHIP muxer has been introduced. You can learn more about WebRTC WHIP in this presentation by Millicast (PDF).

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American Science & Surplus Is Fighting For Its Life

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Par :BeauHD
4 juin 2025 à 23:20
"One of the few major independent science-surplus/DIY outlets left is American Science & Surplus," writes longtime Slashdot reader Tyler Too. "They've recently launched a GoFundMe campaign to ensure their survival." Ars Technica reports: Now, nearly 90 years after its launch selling "reject lenses" as American Lens & Photo, American Science & Surplus is facing an existential threat. The COVID-19 pandemic and increased costs hit the business hard, so the store has launched a GoFundMe campaign looking to raise $200,000 from customers and fans alike. What's happening in suburban Chicago is a microcosm of the challenges facing local retail, with big-box retailers and online behemoths overwhelming beloved local institutions. It's a story that has played out countless times in the last two-plus decades, and owner Pat Meyer is hoping this tale has a different ending. Ars reports on American Science & Surplus' long history, noting that it was founded in 1937 and has grown from a modest surplus shop into a beloved, quirky institution for makers, science enthusiasts, and curiosity seekers. Over the decades, it evolved far beyond its original niche of lenses and lab equipment. As Meyer, a 41-year veteran of the company, put it: "I've done everything in the company that there is to do... it's been my life for 41 years." Once known for its robust telescope section and deep inventory of scientific odds and ends, the store has adapted to shifting consumer habits -- some changes bittersweet. True to its DIY spirit, American Science & Surplus is described as a "physical manifestation of the maker ethos," stocked with everything from motors to military gas masks to mule-branding kits. It also carries a rare sense of humor, with quirky signage like a warning that a "Deluxe Walking Cane" is "not the edible kind of cane." Today, American Science & Surplus faces modern challenges like relocating a costly warehouse and overhauling outdated software and web infrastructure. But Meyer is optimistic, noting that contributions to their GoFundMe campaign represent more than financial help: "It's about supporting local retail during a very challenging time. Who wants to buy everything at Amazon, Walmart, Temu, and Target?"

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Apple Gave Governments Data On Thousands of Push Notifications

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Par :BeauHD
4 juin 2025 à 22:40
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target's specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content like the actual text displayed in the notification, according to data published by Apple. In one case, that Apple did not ultimately provide data for, Israel demanded data related to nearly 700 push notifications as part of a single request. The data for the first time puts a concrete figure on how many requests governments around the world are making, and sometimes receiving, for push notification data from Apple. The practice first came to light in 2023 when Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice revealing the practice, which also applied to Google. As the letter said, "the data these two companies receive includes metadata, detailing which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered. In certain instances, they also might also receive unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification." The published data relates to blocks of six month periods, starting in July 2022 to June 2024. Andre Meister from German media outlet Netzpolitik posted a link to the transparency data to Mastodon on Tuesday. Along with the data Apple published the following description: "Push Token requests are based on an Apple Push Notification service token identifier. When users allow a currently installed application to receive notifications, a push token is generated and registered to that developer and device. Push Token requests generally seek identifying details of the Apple Account associated with the device's push token, such as name, physical address and email address."

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DreamWorks Co-Founder Katzenberg Likens AI To CGI Revolution

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Par :BeauHD
4 juin 2025 à 22:02
At the Axios AI+ Summit, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg compared the rise of AI in entertainment to the CGI revolution of the 1990s, emphasizing that those who adapt to the technology will thrive. He argued AI won't replace people -- but will replace those who don't embrace it. Axios reports: Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks and one-time Disney executive whose work includes films like "Shrek," reflected on the "huge" resistance to making "Toy Story" with the then-novel CGI technology. The people most afraid were the ones who would be disrupted, he said. "Everything that you are hearing today are the issues that we had to deal with," he said. Katzenberg continued, "Yes, there was disruption, but animation's never, ever been bigger than it is today." The bottom line: "AI isn't going to replace people, it's going to replace people that don't use AI," he said. "The exact same analogy there ... is that the talent that went and learned how to use the computer as a new pencil and a new paint brush ... they thrived," he said. Katzenberg added, "if change is uncomfortable, irrelevance is going to be a whole lot harder."

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Microsoft's LinkedIn Chief Is Now Running Office

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Par :BeauHD
4 juin 2025 à 21:26
Announced in an internal memo from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky has been appointed to also lead the Office, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams as part of an internal AI reorganization. Roslansky will report to Rajesh Jha for Office while continuing to run LinkedIn independently under Nadella. The Verge reports: "LinkedIn remains a top priority and will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary," says Nadella in his memo. "This move brings us closer to the original vision we laid out nine years ago with the LinkedIn acquisition: connecting the world's economic graph with the Microsoft Graph. And I look forward to how Ryan will bring his product ethos and leadership to entertainment and devices." Sumit Chauhan and Gaurav Sareen, senior executives in the Office and Microsoft 365 teams, will remain on the entertainment and devices leadership team, but along with their teams they'll join Jon Friedman and the UX team to work directly for Roslansky. Charles Lamanna and his BIC team are also moving to report to Rajesh Jha as part of an AI shakeup. "Charles has consistently kept us focused on what it takes to win in business applications and the agent layer, and I look forward to the impact he and his team will have in entertainment and devices," says Nadella. In a separate memo, Lamanna also announced that starting July 2nd Lili Cheng will take on the newly expanded role of CTO of the BIC team. Dan Lewis is also taking on the role of corporate vice president of Copilot Studio. "We are poised to reinvent every role and every business process, and start to reimagine organizations as composed of people and agents," says Lamanna in an internal memo. Both the Lamanna and Roslansky moves are very interesting, as the business Copilot team and Microsoft 365 Copilot team have been in separate parts of Microsoft's sprawling AI and cloud teams up until this point. This has led to a situation where nobody really owns Copilot all up inside Microsoft, but now the separate leaders of Microsoft 365 Copilot and the business Copilot teams now both report to Rajesh Jha. The consumer Copilot will still be run by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.

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OpenAI Slams Court Order To Save All ChatGPT Logs, Including Deleted Chats

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Par :BeauHD
4 juin 2025 à 20:40
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI is now fighting a court order (PDF) to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through its API business offering -- after news organizations suing over copyright claims accused the AI company of destroying evidence. "Before OpenAI had an opportunity to respond to those unfounded accusations, the court ordered OpenAI to 'preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis until further order of the Court (in essence, the output log data that OpenAI has been destroying)," OpenAI explained in a court filing (PDF) demanding oral arguments in a bid to block the controversial order. In the filing, OpenAI alleged that the court rushed the order based only on a hunch raised by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs. And now, without "any just cause," OpenAI argued, the order "continues to prevent OpenAI from respecting its users' privacy decisions." That risk extended to users of ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro, as well as users of OpenAI's application programming interface (API), OpenAI said. The court order came after news organizations expressed concern that people using ChatGPT to skirt paywalls "might be more likely to 'delete all [their] searches' to cover their tracks," OpenAI explained. Evidence to support that claim, news plaintiffs argued, was missing from the record because so far, OpenAI had only shared samples of chat logs that users had agreed that the company could retain. Sharing the news plaintiffs' concerns, the judge, Ona Wang, ultimately agreed that OpenAI likely would never stop deleting that alleged evidence absent a court order, granting news plaintiffs' request to preserve all chats. OpenAI argued the May 13 order was premature and should be vacated, until, "at a minimum," news organizations can establish a substantial need for OpenAI to preserve all chat logs. They warned that the privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users globally is at risk every day that the "sweeping, unprecedented" order continues to be enforced. "As a result, OpenAI is forced to jettison its commitment to allow users to control when and how their ChatGPT conversation data is used, and whether it is retained," OpenAI argued. Meanwhile, there is no evidence beyond speculation yet supporting claims that "OpenAI had intentionally deleted data," OpenAI alleged. And supposedly there is not "a single piece of evidence supporting" claims that copyright-infringing ChatGPT users are more likely to delete their chats. "OpenAI did not 'destroy' any data, and certainly did not delete any data in response to litigation events," OpenAI argued. "The Order appears to have incorrectly assumed the contrary." One tech worker on LinkedIn suggested the order created "a serious breach of contract for every company that uses OpenAI," while privacy advocates on X warned, "every single AI service 'powered by' OpenAI should be concerned." Also on LinkedIn, a consultant rushed to warn clients to be "extra careful" sharing sensitive data "with ChatGPT or through OpenAI's API for now," warning, "your outputs could eventually be read by others, even if you opted out of training data sharing or used 'temporary chat'!"

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Petit GPU, gros record : l’iGPU du Core Ultra 9 285K culmine à 4,25 GHz et supplante les dGPU

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Par :contact@comptoir-hardware.com
4 juin 2025 à 19:37
Lorsque l’on pense overclocking, on imagine d’imposantes GeForce ou Radeon, des Core Raptor Lake bien vénères, ou encore de la DDR5 malmenée ; plus rarement un frêle iGPU. SkatterBencher a pourtant rendu le processeur graphique intégré de son Core Ultra 9 285K bien plus intrépide qu’il ne l’est généralement : il l’a poussé à 4250 MHz... [Tout lire]

Reddit Sues AI Startup Anthropic For Breach of Contract, 'Unfair Competition'

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Par :msmash
4 juin 2025 à 18:50
Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic for what it's calling a breach of contract and for engaging in "unlawful and unfair business acts" by using the social media company's platform and data without authority. From a report: The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco on Wednesday, claims that Anthropic has been training its models on the personal data of Reddit users without obtaining their consent. Reddit alleges that it has been harmed by the unauthorized commercial use of its content. The company opened the complaint by calling Anthropic a "late-blooming" AI company that "bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry." Reddit follows by saying, "It is anything but."

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KDE Targets Windows 10 'Exiles' Claiming 'Your Computer is Toast'

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Par :msmash
4 juin 2025 à 18:20
king*jojo shares a report: Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign. KDE's alarming "Exiles" page opens with the text "Your computer is toast" followed by a warning that Microsoft wants to turn computers running Windows 10 into junk from October 14. "It may seem like it continues to work after that date for a bit, but when Microsoft stops support for Windows 10, your perfectly good computer will be officially obsolete." Beneath a picture of a pile of tech junk, including a rotary telephone and some floppy drives, KDE proclaims: "Windows 10 will degrade as more and more bugs come to light. With nobody to correct them, you risk being hacked. Your data, identity, and control over your device could be stolen."

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MSI offre un bon Steam pour tout achat de ses RTX 5070, hélas pas toutes !

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
4 juin 2025 à 17:52

MSI a beaucoup manipulé les prix de vente depuis le lancement des cartes RTX 50, puisque la firme ne fait plus de Radeon. Parfois, souvent même, comme beaucoup d'autres, MSI a tordu le cou aux MSRP, et a enflé en plus le tarif, ce qui n'a pas manqué de faire grincer des dents. La toile veille, et el...

Scientists in Japan Develop Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater Within Hours

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Par :msmash
4 juin 2025 à 17:30
Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. From a report: While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo say their new material breaks down much more quickly and leaves no residual trace. At a lab in Wako city near Tokyo, the team demonstrated a small piece of plastic vanishing in a container of salt water after it was stirred up for about an hour. While the team has not yet detailed any plans for commercialisation, project lead Takuzo Aida said their research has attracted significant interest, including from those in the packaging sector.

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La Presse Libre : des médias indépendants s’associent autour d’un abonnement commun

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Par :Alexandre Laurent
4 juin 2025 à 16:41
La Presse Libre : des médias indépendants s’associent autour d’un abonnement commun

Plusieurs médias indépendants s’associent pour élaborer une offre d’abonnement commune, et groupée : lancée d’ici la fin de l’année sous l’étiquette La Presse Libre, elle permettra de lire, en échange d’un forfait fixe, les informations et contenus d’une dizaine de titres partageant des valeurs journalistiques communes.

Les fidèles lecteurs de Next se souviennent certainement du lancement, en 2016, de La Presse Libre, qui réunissait plusieurs médias autour d’une logique d’abonnement couplé, avec des tarifs dégressifs en fonction du nombre de titres souscrits.

Le projet, élaboré et porté pendant des années par David Legrand, avait reçu un accueil positif, mais le temps et les ressources ont manqué pour réaliser les nombreux chantiers nécessaires à son évolution, conduisant à sa fermeture en 2022.

Quelques années plus tard, les médias indépendants ont encore et toujours besoin de se rassembler pour faire entendre leur voix, développer leur lectorat et in fine assurer leur pérennité.

Le besoin se fait même nécessité. D’abord, face à la dépendance aux modèles publicitaires, qui entraîne de nombreux médias à conditionner leur développement aux exigences d’acteurs commerciaux tels qu’Amazon, Google ou Meta, sans même parler d’X, OpenAI et consorts…

Ensuite, devant la concentration d’un nombre toujours plus important de titres entre de mêmes mains, qui entraîne mécaniquement un risque de réduction de la diversité des sources et des points de vue, là où nous avons collectivement besoin d’un éventail aussi large que possible.

Revoilà donc La Presse Libre (et non la sous-préfète), sous la forme d’une nouvelle initiative. Plus ambitieuse. Mieux structurée aussi. Avec une promesse claire, incarnée par un forfait unique, permettant d’accéder à l’intégralité des contenus d’une dizaine de médias partenaires. Le tout doublé d’un portail commun, chargé d’exposer cette pluralité d’informations, d’analyses et d’enquêtes.

Bâtir une telle offre n’a rien d’une sinécure : il faut trouver une ligne directrice, imaginer des clés de répartition, trouver une mécanique de solidarité entre médias d’audiences et de surfaces financières différentes, et bien d’autres sujets encore, avant même de trancher les aspects techniques et lancer les développements nécessaires.

Plus encore qu’en 2016, il nous semble cependant que le jeu en vaut la chandelle, et des auspices favorables accompagnent déjà cette nouvelle Presse Libre. Le Fonds pour une presse libre (FPL), créé par Mediapart, vient par exemple d’accorder au projet une avance remboursable d’un montant record de 60 000 euros, au titre de ses aides financières au journalisme indépendant.

Un discret sondage mené auprès d’un échantillon de la communauté des lecteurs de Next nous a par ailleurs confirmé qu’une résurgence de La Presse Libre serait accueillie très favorablement.

Le travail a donc déjà commencé, au sein d’une association de préfiguration qui, outre Next, réunit six autres médias fondateurs : Arrêt sur images, Politis, Mediacités, Hors-série, Reflets et Les Jours.

En attendant le lancement, suivez les coulisses du projet et inscrivez-vous à sa newsletter sur le site dédié. On en reparlera !

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