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Les prix des cartes graphiques AMD, Intel et NVIDIA semaine 34-2025 : Les 5070 et 9070 à la chute !!!

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23 août 2025 à 08:55

Après la Gamescom on reprend nous habitudes et il est donc temps de parler des prix des cartes graphiques. On commence chez les rouges, avec la 7900 XT qui recule de 30 euros cette semaine. Ensuite, nous avons une baisse a significative sur la RX 9070, qui perd 37 euros, ce qui est très bien, car nous sommes ainsi bien en dessous du MSRP. Enfin, la RX 9070 XT repasse à 689 euros, elle perd donc 10 euros cette semaine. Chez les bleus d'Intel pas de changement cette semaine. […]

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Les vidéos hardware de la semaine 34-2025 : Ventilateurs, boitier et GAMESCOM 2025

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23 août 2025 à 07:45

Cette semaine, c'était un peu la reprise suite aux vacances d'été. Nous avons tout d'abord présenté les ventilateurs ARCTIC P14 Pro, puis le boitier SHARKOON VK4 ARGB. Mais surtout cette semaine nous étions à la GAMESCOM 2025 ou nous avons tourné 11 vidéos. On commence avec les produits : […]

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Du gameplay pour Resident Evil Requiem et Dying Light: The Beast, et la tendresse bordel, elle est où ?

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
23 août 2025 à 09:10

La Gamescom a donné l'occasion à des tas de personnes de tester en réel des jeux, même si incomplets et en développement. Dans le lot, deux jeux ont retenu notre attention, pour leur faculté à nous émerveiller, nous attendrir, faire de chacun un gros nounours rempli d'amour et d'empathie, à moins qu...

LibreOffice 25.8 Slams the Door On Windows 7 and 8.x

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Par :BeauHD
23 août 2025 à 10:00
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: LibreOffice 25.8 has landed, and while it packs in new features and speed improvements, the biggest headline is who just got left behind. If you are still running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1, this is the end of the road. LibreOffice will not run on those systems anymore, and there are no workarounds. The suite has slammed the door shut. For years, LibreOffice kept older Windows users afloat while Microsoft and other developers moved on. That lifeline is gone. Anyone stubbornly clinging to Windows 7 or 8 now has two choices: upgrade or stay stuck on outdated software. LibreOffice has made it clear that it will not carry dead platforms any further. And the cuts do not stop there. 32-bit Windows builds are on their way out, with deprecation already in place. On the Mac side, 25.8 is the last release that runs on macOS 10.15. Starting with LibreOffice 26.2, only macOS 11 and newer will be supported. In other words, if your computer is too old to run modern systems, LibreOffice is walking away.

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Encore une petite semaine en récap', mais c'est à cause de la gamescom !

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23 août 2025 à 07:10

Alors que les vacances se terminent, pas, un salon arrive. Du coup, on reste une nouvelle fois sur une semaine peu chargée en articles. Qu'on se rassure, il y a quand même de la lecture ici et chez nos confrères, avec des produits très variés. Et ça, c'est bien pour découvrir de tout. […]

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Gamescom 2025 : ça avance chez LYNK+

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23 août 2025 à 07:04

Petit retour chez LYNK+ qui présentait plus ou moins les mêmes produits que lors du dernier COMPUTEX, mais les choses avancent bien dans les coulisses. Rappelons le principe : des composants watercooling préremplis avec un système de quick-connect simple et efficace, mais surtout un PCB présent dans chaque élément de la boucle afin de récupérer des informations et de modifier simplement et automatiquement la vitesse de la pompe et des ventilateurs. Initialement, la marque cherchait des partenaires pour travailler en OEM / ODM, et nous aurons finalement le droit à des produits LYNK+ directement, dont un gros waterblock avec un écran et un radiateur de 360 mm. En revanche, il y a bien du partenariat pour les cartes graphiques, avec Palit qui serait dans la course. […]

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Gamescom 2025 : GameSir G7 Pro WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers Edition, une finition folle

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23 août 2025 à 06:51

Chez GameSir, on sait faire des manettes qualitatives. La marque est montée en gamme progressivement et propose désormais des produits assez dingues quand on les prend en main. Il en va logiquement de même pour la nouvelle G7 Pro très attendue par de nombreux joueurs, mais ce n'est rien par rapport à la G7 Pro WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers Edition... Cette édition spéciale est la version certifiée sans-fil pour Xbox de la G7 Pro, avec un thème WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers qui ne laisse pas indifférent. Peu importe qu'on aime ou non le jeu, voire même qu'on le connaisse ou non, la finition est extraordinaire. Pas de grip pour ne pas changer l'aspect de la peinture ? Pas de problème pour GameSir, qui ajoute une texture sur le motif en écailles. Difficile de faire plus propre... […]

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Gamescom 2025 : Asetek lance sa série Initium, bien plus abordable

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23 août 2025 à 06:40

Pour Asetek, l'entrée dans le simracing s'est faite par la grande porte avec des produits haut de gamme. Le catalogue s'est depuis étoffé avec des composants et accessoires plus abordables, mais il manquait vraiment une option entrée de gamme. C'est désormais chose corrigée avec l'arrivée des produits Initium, même si chacun aura son point de vue sur ce qu'est un produit entrée de gamme. Question design, Asetek reste toujours aussi soigné avec ont un aspect plastique recyclé post-consommation original qui est loin d'être déplaisant, tout comme sur le haut de gamme. La marque passe par un matériau composite en injection de moule, et l'ensemble se montre solide. Nous ne parlons pas du cockpit, bien entendu. […]

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Gamescom 2025 : retour sur la collection ASUS x Hatsune Miku

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23 août 2025 à 06:13

Nous pensions tout connaitre de la collaboration ASUS et Hatsune Miku, mais il n'en était rien. ASUS avait en effet d'autres nouveautés, un peu moins pétillantes sur les couleurs, à montrer. En espérant d'ailleurs que d'autres suivent pour ceux qui préfèrent partir sur le blanc, mais chaque chose en son temps. Pas de blabla inutile, place aux photos ! […]

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Bugs des SSD sous Windows 11 : Silicon Motion ne se sent pas concerné... pour l'instant

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Matthieu Strebler)
23 août 2025 à 06:30

Il y a quelques jours, un nouveau bug plutôt gênant a été remonté sous Windows 11, suivant l'installation de la mise à jour de sécurité KB5063878. Il impacte principalement les SSD - a priori SATA autant que NVMe, les disques durs paraissent épargnés pour l'instant - et s'est avéré reproductible. Le...

US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows

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Par :BeauHD
23 août 2025 à 07:00
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: All the critical minerals the U.S. needs annually for energy, defense and technology applications are already being mined at existing U.S. facilities, according to a new analysis published in the journal Science. The catch? These minerals, such as cobalt, lithium, gallium and rare earth elements like neodymium and yttrium, are currently being discarded as tailings of other mineral streams like gold and zinc, said Elizabeth Holley, associate professor of mining engineering at Colorado School of Mines and lead author of the new paper. To conduct the analysis, Holley and her team built a database of annual production from federally permitted metal mines in the U.S. They used a statistical resampling technique to pair these data with the geochemical concentrations of critical minerals in ores, recently compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey, Geoscience Australia and the Geologic Survey of Canada. Using this approach, Holley's team was able to estimate the quantities of critical minerals being mined and processed every year at U.S. metal mines but not being recovered. Instead, these valuable minerals are ending up as discarded tailings that must be stored and monitored to prevent environmental contamination. The analysis looks at a total of 70 elements used in applications ranging from consumer electronics like cell phones to medical devices to satellites to renewable energy to fighter jets and shows that unrecovered byproducts from other U.S. mines could meet the demand for all but two -- platinum and palladium. Among the elements included in the analysis are: - Cobalt (Co): The lustrous bluish-gray metal, a key component in electric car batteries, is a byproduct of nickel and copper mining. Recovering less than 10% of the cobalt currently being mined and processed but not recovered would be more than enough to fuel the entire U.S. battery market. - Germanium (Ge): The brittle silvery-white semi-metal used for electronics and infrared optics, including sensors on missiles and defense satellites, is present in zinc and molybdenum mines. If the U.S. recovered less than 1% of the germanium currently mined and processed but not recovered from U.S. mines, it would not have to import any germanium to meet industry needs.

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Google Says It Dropped the Energy Cost of AI Queries By 33x In One Year

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Par :BeauHD
23 août 2025 à 03:30
Google has released (PDF) a new analysis of its AI's environmental impact, showing that it has cut the energy use of AI text queries by a factor of 33 over the past year. Each prompt now consumes about 0.24 watt-hours -- the equivalent of watching nine seconds of TV. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from an Ars Technica article: "We estimate the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours of energy, emits 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent (gCO2e), and consumes 0.26 milliliters (or about five drops) of water," they conclude. To put that in context, they estimate that the energy use is similar to about nine seconds of TV viewing. The bad news is that the volume of requests is undoubtedly very high. The company has chosen to execute an AI operation with every single search request, a compute demand that simply didn't exist a couple of years ago. So, while the individual impact is small, the cumulative cost is likely to be considerable. The good news? Just a year ago, it would have been far, far worse. Some of this is just down to circumstances. With the boom in solar power in the US and elsewhere, it has gotten easier for Google to arrange for renewable power. As a result, the carbon emissions per unit of energy consumed saw a 1.4x reduction over the past year. But the biggest wins have been on the software side, where different approaches have led to a 33x reduction in energy consumed per prompt. The Google team describes a number of optimizations the company has made that contribute to this. One is an approach termed Mixture-of-Experts, which involves figuring out how to only activate the portion of an AI model needed to handle specific requests, which can drop computational needs by a factor of 10 to 100. They've developed a number of compact versions of their main model, which also reduce the computational load. Data center management also plays a role, as the company can make sure that any active hardware is fully utilized, while allowing the rest to stay in a low-power state. The other thing is that Google designs its own custom AI accelerators, and it architects the software that runs on them, allowing it to optimize both sides of the hardware/software divide to operate well with each other. That's especially critical given that activity on the AI accelerators accounts for over half of the total energy use of a query. Google also has lots of experience running efficient data centers that carries over to the experience with AI. The result of all this is that it estimates that the energy consumption of a typical text query has gone down by 33x in the last year alone.

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Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law

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Par :BeauHD
23 août 2025 à 00:20
Bluesky has blocked access to its service in Mississippi rather than comply with a new state law requiring age verification for all social media users. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi's HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification for all users before they can access social networks like Bluesky. On Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court justices decided to block an emergency appeal that would have prevented the law from going into effect as the legal challenges it faces played out in the courts. As a result, Bluesky had to decide what it would do about compliance. Instead of requiring age verification before users could access age-restricted content, this law requires age verification of all users. That means Bluesky would have to verify every user's age and obtain parental consent for anyone under 18. The company notes that the potential penalties for noncompliance are hefty, too -- up to $10,000 per user. Bluesky also stresses that the law goes beyond child safety, as intended, and would create "significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies." To comply, Bluesky would have to collect and store sensitive information from all its users, in addition to the detailed tracking of minors. This is different from how it's expected to comply with other age verification laws, like the U.K.'s Online Safety Act (OSA), which only requires age checks for certain content and features. Mississippi's law blocks anyone from using the site unless they provide their personal and sensitive information. The company notes that its decision only applies to the Bluesky app built on the AT Protocol. Other apps may approach the decision differently.

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Meta Set To Unveil First Consumer-Ready Smart Glasses With a Display, Wristband

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Par :BeauHD
22 août 2025 à 23:40
At its upcoming Connect conference next month, Meta is rumored to unveil its first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display, alongside a neural wristband controller. The $800 device, codenamed Hypernova, will be able to show simple visual content like texts and support AI assistant interactions. CNBC reports: Connect is a two-day conference for developers focused on virtual reality, AR and the metaverse. It was originally called Oculus Connect and obtained its current moniker after Facebook changed its parent company name to Meta in 2021. The glasses are internally codenamed Hypernova and will include a small digital display in the right lens of the device, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. The device is expected to cost about $800 and will be sold in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, the people said. CNBC reported in October that Meta was working with Luxottica on consumer glasses with a display. [...] With Hypernova, Meta will finally be offering glasses with a display to consumers, but the company is setting low expectations for sales, some of the sources said. That's because the device requires more components than its voice-only predecessors, and will be slightly heavier and thicker, the people said. [...] Although Hypernova will feature a display, those visual features are expected to be limited, people familiar with the matter said. They said the color display will offer about a 20 degree field of view -- meaning it will appear in a small window in a fixed position -- and will be used primarily to relay simple bits of information, such as incoming text messages. The Hypernova glasses will also come paired with a wristband that will use technology built by Meta's CTRL Labs, said people familiar with the matter. CTRL Labs, which Meta acquired in 2019, specializes in building neural technology that could allow users to control computing devices using gestures in their arms. [...] In addition to Hypernova and the wristband, Meta will also announce a third-generation of its voice-only smart glasses with Luxottica at Connect, one person said.

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Reçu hier — 22 août 2025Actualités numériques

Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China's Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code

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Par :BeauHD
22 août 2025 à 23:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notification program. The software behemoth gives some software vendors early bug disclosures under its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), which typically delivers info two weeks before Patch Tuesday. MAPP participants sign a non-disclosure agreement, and in exchange get vulnerability details so that they can provide updated protections to customers more quickly. According to Microsoft spokesperson David Cuddy, who spoke with Bloomberg about changes to the program, MAPP has begun limiting access to companies in "countries where they're required to report vulnerabilities to their governments," including China. Companies in these countries will no longer receive "proof of concept" exploit code, but instead will see "a more general written description" that Microsoft sends at the same time as patches, Cuddy told the news outlet. "A leak happened here somewhere," Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), told The Register in July. "And now you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild, and worse than that, you've got a zero-day exploit in the wild that bypasses the patch, which came out the next day." Childs said the MAPP change "is a positive change, if a bit late. Anything Microsoft can do to help prevent leaks while still offering MAPP guidance is welcome." "In the past, MAPP leaks were associated with companies out of China, so restricting information from flowing to these companies should help," Childs said. "The MAPP program remains a valuable resource for network defenders. Hopefully, Microsoft can squelch the leaks while sending out the needed information to companies that have proven their ability (and desire) to protect end users."

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Waymo Granted First Permit To Being Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC

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Par :BeauHD
22 août 2025 à 22:20
Waymo has received its first permit from the New York City Department of Transportation to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, marking the city's first official rollout of self-driving car trials. The program will initially deploy up to eight vehicles with safety drivers through late September, with the potential to extend and expand into other boroughs. CNBC reports: New York state law requires the company to have a driver behind the wheel to operate. "We're a tech-friendly administration and we're always looking for innovative ways to safely move our city forward," [Mayor Eric Adams] said in a release. "New York City is proud to welcome Waymo to test this new technology in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as we know this testing is only the first step in moving our city further into the 21st century." The news comes just two months after the company said it filed permits to test its cars in the city with a trained specialist behind the wheel. [...] As part of the permit, Waymo must regularly meet and report data to DOT and work closely with law enforcement and emergency services.

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Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google

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Par :BeauHD
22 août 2025 à 22:00
Google has signed a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta worth over $10 billion, making it the second major partnership after a recent agreement with OpenAI. The deal will see Meta rely on Google Cloud's infrastructure to support its massive AI data center buildout, as the company ramps up capital spending into the tens of billions. The Information (paywalled) first reported the deal.

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