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Sports Piracy Operator Goes From Jail To Getting Hired By a Tech Unicorn In a Month

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Par :BeauHD
2 octobre 2025 à 22:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The operator of a popular pirate sports streaming site in Argentina has gone from spending time in jail with murderers to landing a new high-profile job a month later. Alejo "Shishi" Warles, the 25-year-old operator of Al Angulo TV, was arrested on August 20 in a LaLiga-backed crackdown. After his release on bail, he was hired by professional esports team 9z Globant, a partnership involving Argentine tech unicorn Globant. [...] The team is the result of a partnership between 9z Team and Argentinian tech unicorn Globant. Somewhat ironically, Globant previously worked with LaLiga to monitor the live-streaming user experience. Warles welcomed himself to 9z Globant via the team's social media account, referring to himself as an idol, genius, and GOAT. Lucia Quinteros, the main social media manager at the esports team, informed Entre Rios that after considering their new hire's history, they believe that he can add value to the team. "We hired Alejo, not the person who set up that project (Al Angulo TV). Of course, we evaluated what happened, but we believe that, from now on, Alejo can pursue a different career path," Quinteros said. According to Warles himself, he was hired because he's the best. Like many of his comments, this bravado should not be taken too seriously, but nevertheless sits in stark contrast to the typical pirate site operator facing criminal charges.

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What Happened When a Pacific Island Was Cut Off From the Internet

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 21:22
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022. The pyroclastic flow severed both of Tonga's underwater internet cables. The eruption cut sixty-five miles from the domestic cable and fifty-five miles from the international link to Fiji. Tonga lost all internet access. The cables sit on the ocean floor and carry 95% of the world's international internet traffic. The Guardian has a long read on what happened in the aftermath. A.T.M.s (cash machines) stopped working because banks could not verify account balances. Businesses could not file export paperwork. Foreign remittances made up 44% of the country's G.D.P. The government found old satellite phones. Three or four days later, officials restored a hundred and twenty megabytes per second of bandwidth for essential work. A month after the eruption, SpaceX donated fifty Starlink terminals. SubCom's repair ship Reliance took five weeks to restore the international cable. Vava'u did not get broadband back until August, 2023. Another earthquake in the summer of 2024 severed the domestic cable again.

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AI Has Already Run Out of Training Data, Goldman's Data Chief Says

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 20:41
AI has run out of training data, according to Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs' chief data officer and head of data engineering. "We've already run out of data," Raphael said on the bank's podcast. He said this shortage is already shaping how developers build new AI systems. China's DeepSeek may have kept costs down by training on outputs from existing models instead of fresh data. The web has been tapped out. Developers have been using synthetic data -- machine-generated material that offers unlimited supply but carries quality risks. Raphael said he doesn't think the lack of fresh data will be a massive constraint. "From an enterprise perspective, I think there's still a lot of juice I'd say to be squeezed in that," he said. Proprietary datasets held by corporations could make AI tools far more valuable. The challenge is "understanding the data, understanding the business context of the data, and then being able to normalize it."

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Google Says Hackers Are Sending Extortion Emails To Executives

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 20:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle business applications. In a statement, Google said a group claiming affiliation with the ransomware gang cl0p, opens new tab was sending emails to "executives at numerous organizations claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite." Google cautioned that it "does not currently have sufficient evidence to definitively assess the veracity of these claims."

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Walmart To Deploy Sensors To Track 90 Million Grocery Pallets by Next Year

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 19:21
Walmart plans to deploy sensors across its 4,600 US stores by the end of 2026 to track 90 million pallets of groceries shipped annually [Editor's note: non-paywalled source]. The retailer and technology vendor Wiliot announced the expansion Thursday. The sensors will monitor the location, condition and temperature of perishables as they move from warehouses to stores. Walmart started testing Wiliot's sensors at a Texas warehouse in 2023 and has expanded to 500 locations. The full rollout will cover the retailer's US store network and 40 distribution centers. The microchips measure 0.7 square millimeters and are embedded in shipping labels. They use Bluetooth to transmit real-time data about pallets. Walmart previously relied on manual scanning and paper checks by employees. The Arkansas-based company employs 2.1 million people but increased revenues by $150 billion over five years without adding workers. Walmart accounts for more than a fifth of US grocery sales.

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Linkedin CEO Says Fancy Degrees Will Matter Less in the Future of Work

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 18:41
Top college degrees may no longer provide the edge they once did in the job market, per LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. "I think the mindset shift is probably the most exciting thing because my guess is that the future of work belongs not anymore to the people that have the fanciest degrees or went to the best colleges, but to the people who are adaptable, forward thinking, ready to learn, and ready to embrace these tools," Roslansky said. "It really kind of opens up the playing field in a way that I think we've never seen before." A 2024 Microsoft survey found 71% of business leaders would choose less-experienced candidates with AI skills over experienced candidates without them. LinkedIn data showed job postings requiring AI literacy increased about 70% year-over-year. Roslansky said AI will not replace humans but people who embrace AI will replace those who don't.

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Et si on enlevait le brouillard dans Silent Hill f ? Eh beh on y verrait vachement plus mieux pardi !

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
2 octobre 2025 à 17:19

Nous revenons sur Silent Hill f paru il y a quelques jours et qui a eu déjà droit à pas mal de tests que nous avons relayés ici et là par exemple. Ce n'est pas pour ces mêmes raisons que nous en reparlons en cette fin de journée, mais pour d'autres un peu plus techniques. Ceux qui s'y sont essayés v...

Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 18:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: It's not the vibes; Earth is literally getting darker. Scientists have discovered that our planet has been reflecting less light in both hemispheres, with a more pronounced darkening in the Northern hemisphere, according to a study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new trend upends longstanding symmetry in the surface albedo, or reflectivity, of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. In other words, clouds circulate in a way that equalizes hemispheric differences, such as the uneven distribution of land, so that the albedos roughly match -- though nobody knows why. "There are all kinds of things that people have noticed in observations and simulations that tend to suggest that you have this hemispheric symmetry as a kind of fundamental property of the climate system, but nobody's really come up with a theoretical framework or explanation for it," said Norman Loeb, a physical scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, who led the new study. "It's always been something that we've observed, but we haven't really explained it fully." To study this mystery, Loeb and his colleagues analyzed 24 years of observations captured since 2000 by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), a network of instruments placed on several NOAA and NASA satellites. Instead of an explanation for the strange symmetry, the results revealed an emerging asymmetry in hemispheric albedo; though both hemispheres are darkening, the Northern hemisphere shows more pronounced changes which challenges "the hypothesis that hemispheric symmetry in albedo is a fundamental property of Earth," according to the study.

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Japan is Running Out of Its Favorite Beer After Ransomware Attack

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 17:21
Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation's most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries. From a report: The vast majority of Asahi Group's 30 factories in Japan have not operated since Monday after the attack disabled its ordering and delivery system, the company said. Retailers are already expecting empty shelves as the outage stretches into its fourth day with no clear timeline for factories recommencing operations. Super Dry could also run out at izakaya pubs, which rely on draught and bottles. Lawson, one of Japan's big convenience stores, said in a statement that it stocks many Asahi Group products and "it is possible that some of these products may become increasingly out of stock from tomorrow onwards." "This is having an impact on everyone," said an executive at another of Japan's major retailers. "I think we will run out of products soon. When it comes to Super Dry, I think we'll run out in two or three days at supermarkets and Asahi's food products within a week or so."

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ASRock et les cartes meurtrières d'AMD Ryzen, nouvel épisode !

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
2 octobre 2025 à 16:17

Après de nombreux mois de polémiques, de prises de paroles hasardeuses et de déclarations intempestives parfois de la part d'ASRock, nous étions en droit d'espérer au début de ce mois de septembre 2025 que la situation autour du nombre anormalement élevé de processeurs AMD Ryzen mourant sans crier g...

Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in US

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 16:40
Americans' confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly, according to Gallup. From the report: This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago. Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have "not very much" confidence (36%) or "none at all" (34%). When Gallup began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, between 68% and 72% of Americans expressed confidence in reporting. However, by the next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%. Media trust remained just above 50% until it dropped to 44% in 2004, and it has not risen to the majority level since. The highest reading in the past decade was 45% in 2018, which came just two years after confidence had collapsed amid the divisive 2016 presidential campaign.

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Bon Plan : La liseuse Amazon Kindle Colorsoft 16 Go à 184.99€

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Par :Pierre Lecourt
2 octobre 2025 à 16:30

Avec un écran de 7 pouces de diagonale équipé d’une dalle d’encre numérique couleur, la liseuse Amazon Kindle Colorsoft est proposée à son plus bas prix depuis son lancement. 

Elle mesure 12.76 cm de large pour 17.67 cm de haut et 7.8 mm d’épaisseur. Son poids est contenu avec 215 g seulement. Elle permet de stocker énormément d’ouvrages classiques avec ses 16 Go de stockage internes et profite d’une certification IPX8 qui la rendra résistante à la pluie et aux éclaboussures. 

La liseuse Kindle Colorsoft promet la lecture de documentation, de romans comme de BDs et de Mangas avec un profil de couleurs moins éclatant qu’un smartphone ou une tablette classique. L’encre numérique est moins contractée évidemment, même si elle s’avère finalement plus efficace en extérieur. L’autonomie annoncée de 8 semaines ne doit, se comprendre qu’à raison d’une demi-heure par jour. Ce qui est plutôt excellent puisque cela suppose 56 jours et donc 28 heures d’autonomie. La recharge se fait en 2.5 heures via un port USB Type-C.

Le débat des limitations de la liseuse en matière de DRM est toujours présent avec une sévère limitation de la gestion des transferts USB par Amazon. Il reste toujours parfaitement possible de lui expédier des livres numérique très facilement par email. Calibre sait également bien gérer les fichiers KFX d’Amazon. A noter également, même si je ne sais pas s’il fonctionne toujours aussi bien, qu’un script existe pour télécharger automatiquement tous les livres numériques achetés sur Amazon.

Voir l’offre sur Amazon

 

Bon Plan : La liseuse Amazon Kindle Colorsoft 16 Go à 184.99€ © MiniMachines.net. 2025

SiFive Premier P550, Apple M2 Pro/Max/Ultra DTs & Other SoC Changes For Linux 6.18

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Par :Michael Larabel
2 octobre 2025 à 15:16
The many SoC and platform/machine DeviceTree additions have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel! This includes finally having mainline support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board and its EIC7700 SoC, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra DeviceTrees added and associated Apple Mac system support, various new Snapdragon X1 laptops now being supported by the mainline kernel and much more...

Bon Plan : un pack d'une valeur de 100 $ pour le jeu Firestone Online Idle RPG

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2 octobre 2025 à 15:05

Un pack d'une valeur de 100 $ pour le jeu Firestone Online Idle RPG est offert par Epic Games, il suffit de se connecter au jeu durant la période du jeudi 2 octobre à 11 h ET au jeudi 9 octobre à 11 h ET.Détends-toi, tes héros gèrent tout ! Ils combattront même hors ligne. Reviens pour des récompenses sympas et des montées de niveau faciles. Débloque l'équipement stylé et dégomme des boss épiques. Joue idle ou clicker - progresse sans stress, juste du fun ! […]

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Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 16:02
A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat's consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. From a report: The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. "Red Hat is aware of reports regarding a security incident related to our consulting business and we have initiated necessary remediation steps," Stephanie Wonderlick, Red Hat's VP of communications told 404 Media. A file released by the hackers and viewed by 404 Media suggested that the hacking group may have acquired some data related to about 800 clients, including Vodafone, T-Mobile, the US Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, the Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Walmart.

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In a Sea of Tech Talent, Companies Can't Find the Workers They Want

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Par :msmash
2 octobre 2025 à 15:21
Tech companies are struggling to fill AI-specialized roles despite a surplus of available tech talent. U.S. colleges more than doubled the number of computer science degrees awarded between 2013 and 2022. Major layoffs at Google, Meta, and Amazon flooded the job market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts businesses will employ 6% fewer computer programmers in 2034 than last year. The disconnect stems from companies seeking workers with specific AI expertise. Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela estimates only hundreds of people worldwide possess the skills to train complex AI models. His company advertises base salaries up to $490,000 for a director of machine learning. Daniel Park's startup Pickle offers up to $500,000 base salary and expects candidates willing to work seven days a week. The WSJ story includes the example of one James Strawn, who was laid off from Adobe over the summer after 25 years as a senior software quality-assurance engineer. The 55-year-old has had one interview since his layoff. Matt Massucci, CEO of recruiting firm Hirewell, told the publication companies can automate some low-level engineering tasks and redirect that money to high-end talent.

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