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New Python Documentary Released On YouTube

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Par :EditorDavid
30 août 2025 à 14:34
"From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world's biggest companies — this is the story of Python," says the description of a new 84-minute documentary. Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: It traces Python all the way back to its origins in Amsterdam back in 1991. (Although the first time Guido van Rossum showed his new language to a co-worker, they'd typed one line of code just to prove they could crash Python's first interpreter.) The language slowly spread after van Rossum released it on Usenet — split across 21 separate posts — and Robin Friedrich, a NASA aerospace engineer, remembers using Python to build flight simulations for the Space Shuttle. (Friedrich says in the documentary he also attended Guido's first in-person U.S. workshop in 1994, and "I still have the t-shirt...") Dropbox's CEO/founder Drew Houston describes what it was like being one of the first companies to use Python to build a company reaching millions of users. (Another success story was YouTube, which was built by a small team using Python before being acquired by Google). Anaconda co-founder Travis Oliphant remembers Python's popularity increasing even more thanks to the data science/macine learning community. But the documentary also includes the controversial move to Python 3 (which broke compatability with earlier versions) — though ironically, one of the people slogging through a massive code migration ended up being van Rossum himself at his new job at Dropbox. The documentary also includes van Rossum's resignation as "Benevolent Dictator for Life" after approving the walrus operator. (In van Rossum's words, he essentially "rage-quit over this issue.") But the focus is on Python's community. At one point, various interviewees even take turns reciting passages from the "Zen of Python" — which to this day is still hidden in Python as an import-able library as a kind of Easter Egg. "It was a massive undertaking", the director explains in a new interview, describing a full year of interviews. (The article features screenshots from the documentary — including a young Guido van Rossum and the original 1991 email that announced Python to the world.) [Director Bechtle] is part of a group that's filmed documentaries on everything from Kubernetes and Prometheus to Angular, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails... Originally part of the job platform Honeypot, the documentary-makers relaunched in April as Cult.Repo, promising they were "100% independent and more committed than ever to telling the human stories behind technology." Honeypot's founder Emma Tracey bought back its 272,000-subscriber YouTube channel from Honeypot's new owners, New Work SE, and Cult.Repo now bills itself as "The home of Open Source documentaries." Over in a thread at Python.org, language creator Guido van Rossum has identified the Python community members in the film's Monty Python-esque poster art. And core developer Hugo van Kemenade notes there's also a video from EuroPython with a 55-minute Q&A about the documentary.

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bsd-user-4-linux Lets FreeBSD Binaries Run Unmodified On Linux

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Par :Michael Larabel
30 août 2025 à 13:39
The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...

Phison fait encore l'éloge de son PS5028-E28, le contrôleur "SSD Gen5 Ultime" ! Mais où sont les SSD ?

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Matthieu Strebler)
30 août 2025 à 13:40

Très longtemps seul au sommet du SSD PCIe 5.0 depuis son introduction avec le PS5026-E26, Phison doit toutefois maintenant compter avec la concurrence. En effet, l'arrivée du SM2508 chez Silicon Motion et le lancement de la série 9100 PRO avec le nouveau contrôleur Presto chez Samsung ont redistribu...

London Targets Noisy Commuters With Headphone Campaign

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Par :BeauHD
30 août 2025 à 13:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: After bringing 4G and 5G connectivity to the Underground, London's public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones. A new poster campaign launched by Transport for London (TfL) this week encourages customers to wear headphones when watching or listening to content on their devices to reduce disruption for other commuters. "Please don't disturb others with loud music or calls when traveling on the network," reads the "Headphones On" poster. The posters are already being displayed on the Elizabeth rail line, according to TfL, and will expand to bus, Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, London Underground, and London Tram services from October. The campaign targets headphone dodgers as data coverage becomes more available across the underground rail network, making it easier for passengers to stream content and make calls on the go. People who do so without donning headphones are annoying other commuters, however, with TfL research showing that 70 percent of 1,000 surveyed customers reported loud music and phone calls disrupting their journeys. "The vast majority of Londoners use headphones when traveling on public transport in the capital, but the small minority who play music or videos out loud can be a real nuisance to other passengers and directly disturb their journeys," says London's deputy transport mayor, Seb Dance. "TfL's new campaign will remind and encourage Londoners to always be considerate of other passengers."

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#Flock : Volatiles et drôles d’oiseaux sont dans un bateau…

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Par :Flock
30 août 2025 à 11:37
Le bandit manchot
#Flock : Volatiles et drôles d’oiseaux sont dans un bateau…

C’est la rentrée et personne n’y échappe, surtout celle dans le lard !
Zuckerberg, après avoir mille fois retourné sa veste, s’habille en Prada avec son IA, voilà pour ce drôle d’oiseau qui pense que faire flirter son algo avec des ados, c’est réglo.
Puisqu’on en est à l’ultra fast fashion boostée et que certains ont déjà les plumes, il ne manque plus que le goudron.
De son côté, Trump ne fait pas dans le détail avec la volaille préférée des États-Unis.
C’est toujours le festival des cuisseaux pour les perdreaux de six semaines, n’en déplaise au poulet de l’Arcom qui fait la pan avec son bilan.
Israël a des airs de poule aux œufs d’or pour Microsoft, qui préfère faire l’autruche tant qu’elle peut étoffer son petit nid douillet.
Tout ça donne envie de se barrer au pôle sud, pas de bol, pas moyen d’être tranquille : là-bas même les manchots se font casser les œufs.


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Ryzen 5 5500X3D : le dernier survivant des CPU AMD AM4 avec 3D V-Cache enfin testé !

✇Hardware & Co - Actualités
Par :contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
30 août 2025 à 11:35

AMD ne s'est toujours pas exprimé officiellement concernant la rumeur qui se répandait en début de mois, annonçant la fin de vie commerciale du Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Les faits semblent cependant lui donner raison puisqu'après de nombreux pays dont les États-Unis, au milieu du mois d'aout c'était au tour...

Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void

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Par :BeauHD
30 août 2025 à 10:00
Alibaba, China's largest cloud-computing company, has developed a domestically manufactured, versatile inference chip to fill the gap left by U.S. restrictions on Nvidia's sales in China. The Wall Street Journal reports: Previous cloud-computing chips developed by Alibaba have mostly been designed for specific applications. The new chip, now in testing, is meant to serve a broader range of AI inference tasks, said people familiar with it. The chip is manufactured by a Chinese company, they said, in contrast to an earlier Alibaba AI processor that was fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. Washington has blocked TSMC from manufacturing AI chips for China that use leading-edge technology. [...] Private-sector cloud companies including Alibaba have refrained from bulk orders of Huawei's chips, resisting official suggestions that they should help the national champion, because they consider Huawei a direct rival in cloud services, people close to the firms said. China's biggest weakness is training AI models, for which U.S. companies rely on the most powerful Nvidia products. Alibaba's new chip is designed for inference, not training, people familiar with it said. Chinese engineers have complained that homegrown chips including Huawei's run into problems when training AI, such as overheating and breaking down in the middle of training runs. Huawei declined to comment.

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Geekom QS1 : le MiniPC Snapdragon X Elite sera présenté à l’IFA

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Par :Pierre Lecourt
30 août 2025 à 09:33

Début décembre 2024, le Geekom QS1 est annoncé comme le premier MiniPC sous SoC Snapdragon X Elite. Depuis, pas de nouvelles de la part du constructeur. À un point ou l’on pouvait se demander si cet engin allait réellement apparaitre à son catalogue. La marque avait prévenu que cet engin ne serait pas là avant le seond trimestre 2025.

Fin août 2025, je reçois l’info d’une présentation de la minimachine sur le salon Berlinois de l’IFA dans les prochains jours. Preuve que le projet n’est pas abandonné et détail intégral des composants de la machine.

Le Geekom QS1 est donc un MiniPC d’aspect très classique pour la marque. On retrouve un châssis en aluminium de 13.5 cm de large pour 11.55 cm de profondeur et 3.45 cm d’épaisseur. A l’intérieur, un SoC Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100. Une puce 12 cœurs fonctionnant à 4 GHz en simple et en double cœur et jusqu’à 3.8 GHz en multicœurs complet. La solution embarque 42 Mo de cache, un NPU 45 TOPS et un circuit graphique Adreno. 

Associé à cette base, le Geekom QS1 proposera jusqu’à 64 Go de mémoire vive LPDDR5-8400 soudés sur sa carte mère. Le stockage sera confié à deux éléments distincts qui seront quant à eux évolutifs. Un M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4 et un M.2 2242 Gen 4 x2. Les deux permettant d’ajouter 2 To pour un total confortable de 4 To.

Livré préinstallé sous Windows 11 Pro, le Geekom QS1 embarque une connectique semblable aux modèles sous processeurs AMD ou Intel. En facade on retrouve d’abord quatre ouvertures pour de petits microphones, deux USB 3.2 Type-A et un jack audio combo 3.5 mm en plus du bouton de démarrage qui embarque un lecteur biométrique d’empreinte pour piloter Windows Hello.

Sur la partie arrière, on retrouvera un port USB 3.2 Type-A supplémentaire, un USB4, des sorties vidéo HDMI 2.0 et DisplayPort 1.4, un Ethernet 2.5 Gigabit. Les côtés de l’engin présenteront l’ouverture d’un lecteur de cartes MicroSDXC et un Antivol type Kensington Lock. Un module sans fil sera également intégré. Surprise, il s’agirait d’une puce signée par Intel en Wi-Fi7 et Bluetooth 5.4. L’alimentation se fera au travers d’un port Jack dédié en 19V/6.32A et 120 watts.

Il manque deux derniers détails autour de ce produit, d’abord son tarif qui n’est toujours pas connu. Ensuite sa date de lancement. Peut être que le  stand de Geekom à l’IFA nous réservera cette information.

Geekom QS1 : le MiniPC Snapdragon X Elite sera présenté à l’IFA © MiniMachines.net. 2025

Les prix des cartes graphiques AMD, Intel et NVIDIA semaie 35-2025 : Mouais, bof, pas top

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30 août 2025 à 07:43

On passe aux prix des cartes graphiques en cette semaine 35. Autant le dire tout de suite c'était globalement mieux la semaine dernière. Chez AMD, assez peu de changements et en plus pas toujours à notre avantage. La 9060 XT augmente de 10 euros, la 7900 XTX baisse de 48 euros et la 9070 prend 37 euros. Chez Intel, la B580 augmente de 4 euros cette semaine. […]

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Un récap' de la semaine qui permet presque de monter une configuration !

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30 août 2025 à 06:33

Il y a des semaines, les tests se suivent logiquement. Par exemple, la série qui vient de se terminer permet presque de monter une configuration complète. Boitier, refroidissement, carte mère, carte graphique, mémoire, il ne manque que le processeur et l'alimentation ! Et histoire de faire bien les choses, il y a même un peu de périphériques pour commencer à voir ce qu'on peut brancher sur la tour... […]

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Les tests hardware de la semaine - S35 2025

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Nicolas Derumigny)
30 août 2025 à 07:01

Alors que la semaine dernière était marquée par la Gamescom, cette semaine se retrouve sous l’égide de… hé bien, les fonds de tiroir de cette dernière, ainsi que le nettoyage de prérentrée. Ainsi, vous aurez peut-être remarqué l’apparition d’une bulle indicative du nombre de commentaires en haut des...

China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build

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Par :BeauHD
30 août 2025 à 07:00
China has turned on the world's most sensitive neutrino detector after more than a decade of construction. The Register reports: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO) is buried 700 meters under a mountain and features a 20,000-tonne "liquid scintillator detector" that China's Academy of Science says is "housed at the center of a 44-meter-deep water pool." There's also a 35.4-meter-diameter acrylic sphere supported by a 41.1-meter-diameter stainless steel truss. All that stuff is surrounded by more than 45,000 photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs). The latter devices are super-sensitive light detectors. A liquid scintillator is a fluid that, when exposed to ionizing radiation, produces light. At JUNO, the liquid is 99.7 percent alkylbenzene, an ingredient found in detergents and refrigerants. JUNO's designers hope that any neutrinos that pass through its giant tank bonk a hydrogen atom and produce just enough light that the detector array of PMTs can record their passing, producing data scientists can use to learn more about the particles. At this point, readers could sensibly ask how JUNO will catch any of these elusive particles. The answer lies in the facility's location -- a few tens of kilometers away from two nuclear power plants that produce neutrinos. The Chinese Academy of Science's Journal of High Energy Physics says trials of JUNO succeeded, suggesting it will be able to help scientists understand why some neutrinos are heavier than others so we can begin to classify the different types of the particle -- a key goal for the facility. The Journal also reports that scientists from Japan, the United States, Europe, India, and South Korea, are either already using JUNO or plan experiments at the facility.

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Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current Is No Longer Low-Likelihood, Study Finds

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Par :BeauHD
30 août 2025 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis. Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later. The research found that if carbon emissions continued to rise, 70% of the model runs led to collapse, while an intermediate level of emissions resulted in collapse in 37% of the models. Even in the case of low future emissions, an Amoc shutdown happened in 25% of the models. Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided "at all costs." It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels. The new results are "quite shocking, because I used to say that the chance of Amoc collapsing as a result of global warming was less than 10%," said Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who was part of the study team. "Now even in a low-emission scenario, sticking to the Paris agreement, it looks like it may be more like 25%. "These numbers are not very certain, but we are talking about a matter of risk assessment where even a 10% chance of an Amoc collapse would be far too high," added Rahmstorf. "We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is quite a shocking finding as well and why we have to act really fast in cutting down emissions." "Observations in the deep [far North Atlantic] already show a downward trend over the past five to 10 years, consistent with the models' projections," said Prof Sybren Drijfhout, at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, who was also part of the team. "Even in some intermediate and low-emission scenarios, the Amoc slows drastically by 2100 and completely shuts off thereafter. That shows the shutdown risk is more serious than many people realize." The findings have been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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Mastodon Says It Doesn't 'Have the Means' To Comply With Age Verification Laws

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Par :BeauHD
30 août 2025 à 01:25
Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi's new age verification law because its decentralized software does not support age checks and the nonprofit lacks resources to enforce them. "The social nonprofit explains that Mastodon doesn't track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation," reports TechCrunch. "Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says." From the report: The statement follows a lively back-and-forth conversation earlier this week between Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko and Bluesky board member and journalist Mike Masnick. In the conversation, published on their respective social networks, Rochko claimed, "there is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi." (The Fediverse is the decentralized social network that includes Mastodon and other services, and is powered by the ActivityPub protocol.) "And this is why real decentralization matters," said Rochko. Masnick pushed back, questioning why Mastodon's individual servers, like the one Rochko runs at mastodon.social, would not also be subject to the same $10,000 per user fines for noncompliance with the law. On Friday, however, the nonprofit shared a statement with TechCrunch to clarify its position, saying that while Mastodon's own servers specify a minimum age of 16 to sign up for its services, it does not "have the means to apply age verification" to its services. That is, the Mastodon software doesn't support it. The Mastodon 4.4 release in July 2025 added the ability to specify a minimum age for sign-up and other legal features for handling terms of service, partly in response to increased regulation around these areas. The new feature allows server administrators to check users' ages during sign-up, but the age-check data is not stored. That means individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe an age verification component is a necessary addition. The nonprofit says Mastodon is currently unable to provide "direct or operational assistance" to the broader set of Mastodon server operators. Instead, it encourages owners of Mastodon and other Fediverse servers to make use of resources available online, such as the IFTAS library, which provides trust and safety support for volunteer social network moderators. The nonprofit also advises server admins to observe the laws of the jurisdictions where they are located and operate. Mastodon notes that it's "not tracking, or able to comment on, the policies and operations of individual servers that run Mastodon." Bluesky echoed those comments in a blog post last Friday, saying the company doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require.

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