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Waymo Hits a Dog In San Francisco, Reigniting Safety Debate

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3 décembre 2025 à 02:02
A Waymo robotaxi struck a small unleashed dog in San Francisco -- just weeks after another Waymo killed a beloved neighborhood cat. The dog's condition is unknown. The Los Angeles Times reports: The incident occurred near the intersection of Scott and Eddy streets and drew a small crowd, according to social media posts. A person claiming to be one of the passengers posted about the accident on Reddit. "Our Waymo just ran over a dog," the passenger wrote. "Kids saw the whole thing." The passenger described the dog as between 20 and 30 pounds and wrote that their family was traveling back home after a holiday tree lighting event. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has recorded Waymo taxis as being involved in at least 14 animal collisions since 2021. "Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway," a company spokesperson said. "We are dedicated to learning from this situation and how we show up for our community as we continue improving road safety in the cities we serve." The spokesperson added that Waymo vehicles have a much lower rate of injury-causing collisions than human drivers. Human drivers run into millions of animals while driving each year. "I'm not sure a human driver would have avoided the dog either, though I do know that a human would have responded differently to a 'bump' followed by a car full of screaming people," the Waymo passenger wrote on Reddit. One person who commented on the discussion said that Waymo vehicles should be held to a higher standard than human drivers, because the autonomous taxis are supposed to improve road safety. "The whole point of this is because Waymo isn't supposed to make those mistakes," the person wrote on Reddit.

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Kubernetes Is Retiring Its Popular Ingress NGINX Controller

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3 décembre 2025 à 01:01
During last month's KubeCon North America in Atlanta, Kubernetes maintainers announced the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. "Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026," noted the Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee. "Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered." In a recent op-ed for The Register, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reflects on the decision and speculates about what might have prevented this outcome: Ingress NGINX, for those who don't know it, is an ingress controller in Kubernetes clusters that manages and routes external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the cluster's internal services based on configurable Ingress rules. It acts as a reverse proxy, ensuring that requests from clients outside the cluster are forwarded to the correct backend services within the cluster according to path, domain, and TLS configuration. As such, it's vital for network traffic management and load balancing. You know, the important stuff. Now this longstanding project, once celebrated for its flexibility and breadth of features, will soon be "abandonware." So what? After all, it won't be the first time a once-popular program shuffled off the stage. Off the top of my head, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3, and VisiCalc spring to my mind. What's different is that there are still thousands of Ingress NGINX controllers in use. Why is it being put down, then, if it's so popular? Well, there is a good reason. As Tabitha Sable, a staff engineer at Datadog who is also co-chair of the Kubernetes special interest group for security, pointed out: "Ingress NGINX has always struggled with insufficient or barely sufficient maintainership. For years, the project has had only one or two people doing development work, on their own time, after work hours, and on weekends. Last year, the Ingress NGINX maintainers announced their plans to wind down Ingress NGINX and develop a replacement controller together with the Gateway API community. Unfortunately, even that announcement failed to generate additional interest in helping maintain Ingress NGINX or develop InGate to replace it." [...] The final nail in the coffin was when security company Wix found a killer Ingress NGINX security hole. How bad was it? Wix declared: "Exploiting this flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code and access all cluster secrets across namespaces, which could lead to complete cluster takeover." [...] You see, the real problem isn't that Ingress NGINX has a major security problem. Heck, hardly a month goes by without another stop-the-presses Windows bug being uncovered. No, the real issue is that here we have yet another example of a mission-critical open source program no one pays to support...

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OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' As Google Catches Up In AI Race

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Par :BeauHD
3 décembre 2025 à 00:00
OpenAI has reportedly issued a "code red" on Monday, pausing projects like ads, shopping agents, health tools, and its Pulse assistant to focus entirely on improving ChatGPT. "This includes core features like greater speed and reliability, better personalization, and the ability to answer more questions," reports The Verge, citing a memo reported by the Wall Street Journal and The Information. "There will be a daily call for those tasked with improving the chatbot, the memo said, and Altman encouraged temporary team transfers to speed up development." From the report: The newfound urgency illustrates an inflection point for OpenAI as it spends hundreds of billions of dollars to fund growth and figures out a path to future profitability. It is also something of a full-circle moment in the AI race. Google, which declared its own "code red" after the arrival of ChatGPT, is a particular concern. Google's AI user base is growing -- helped by the success of popular tools like the Nano Banana image model -- and its latest AI model, Gemini 3, blew past its competitors on many industry benchmarks and popular metrics.

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Apple To Resist India Order To Preload State-Run App As Political Outcry Builds

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2 décembre 2025 à 23:23
Apple does not plan to comply with India's mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app that cannot be disabled. According to Reuters, the order "sparked surveillance concerns and a political uproar" after it was revealed on Monday. From the report: In the wake of the criticism, India's telecom minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Tuesday said the app was a "voluntary and democratic system," adding that users can choose to activate it and can "easily delete it from their phone at any time." At present, the app can be deleted by users. Scindia did not comment on or clarify the November 28 confidential directive that ordered smartphone makers to start preloading it and ensure "its functionalities are not disabled or restricted." Apple however does not plan to comply with the directive and will tell the government it does not follow such mandates anywhere in the world as they raise a host of privacy and security issues for the company's iOS ecosystem, said two of the industry sources who are familiar with Apple's concerns. They declined to be named publicly as the company's strategy is private. "Its not only like taking a sledgehammer, this is like a double-barrel gun," said the first source.

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UK Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Political Donations

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2 décembre 2025 à 22:22
The UK government plans to ban political donations made in cryptocurrency over fears of anonymity, foreign influence, and traceability issues, though the ban won't be ready in time for the upcoming elections bill. The Guardian reports: The government's ambition to ban crypto donations will be a blow to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, which became the first to accept contributions in digital currency this year. It is believed to have received its first registrable donations in cryptocurrency this autumn and the party has set up its own crypto portal to receive contributions, saying it is subject to "enhanced" checks. Government sources have said ministers believe cryptocurrency donations to be a problem, as they are difficult to trace and could be exploited by foreign powers or criminals. Pat McFadden, then a Cabinet Office minister, first raised the idea in July, saying: "I definitely think it is something that the Electoral Commission should be considering. I think that it's very important that we know who is providing the donation, are they properly registered, what are the bona fides of that donation." The Electoral Commission provides guidance on crypto donations but ministers accept any ban would probably have to come from the government through legislation. "Crypto donations present real risks to our democracy," said Susan Hawley, the executive director of Spotlight on Corruption. "We know that bad actors like Russia use crypto to undermine and interfere in democracies globally, while the difficulties involved in tracing the true source of transactions means that British voters may not know everyone who's funding the parties they vote for."

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Amazon To Use Nvidia Tech In AI Chips, Roll Out New Servers

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Par :BeauHD
2 décembre 2025 à 21:21
AWS is deepening its partnership with Nvidia by adopting "NVLink Fusion" in its upcoming Trainium4 AI chips. "The NVLink technology creates speedy connections between different kinds of chips and is one of Nvidia's crown jewels," notes Reuters. From the report: Nvidia has been pushing to sign up other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board. The technology will help AWS build bigger AI servers that can recognize and communicate with one another faster, a critical factor in training large AI models, in which thousands of machines must be strung together. As part of the Nvidia partnership, customers will have access to what AWS is calling AI Factories, exclusive AI infrastructure inside their own data centers for greater speed and readiness. Separately, Amazon said it is rolling out new servers based on a chip called Trainium3. The new servers, available on Tuesday, each contain 144 chips and have more than four times the computing power of AWS's previous generation of AI, while using 40% less power, Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute and machine learning services, told Reuters. Brown did not give absolute figures on power or performance, but said AWS aims to compete with rivals -- including Nvidia -- based on price. "Together, Nvidia and AWS are creating the compute fabric for the AI industrial revolution - bringing advanced AI to every company, in every country, and accelerating the world's path to intelligence," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement.

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SmartTube YouTube App For Android TV Breached To Push Malicious Update

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2 décembre 2025 à 20:20
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The popular open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV was compromised after an attacker gained access to the developer's signing keys, leading to a malicious update being pushed to users. The compromise became known when multiple users reported that Play Protect, Android's built-in antivirus module, blocked SmartTube on their devices and warned them of a risk. The developer of SmartTube, Yuriy Yuliskov, admitted that his digital keys were compromised late last week, leading to the injection of malware into the app. Yuliskov revoked the old signature and said he would soon publish a new version with a separate app ID, urging users to move to that one instead. [...] A user who reverse-engineered the compromised SmartTube version number 30.51 found that it includes a hidden native library named libalphasdk.so [VirusTotal]. This library does not exist in the public source code, so it is being injected into release builds. [...] The library runs silently in the background without user interaction, fingerprints the host device, registers it with a remote backend, and periodically sends metrics and retrieves configuration via an encrypted communications channel. All this happens without any visible indication to the user. While there's no evidence of malicious activity such as account theft or participation in DDoS botnets, the risk of enabling such activities at any time is high.

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AMD Radeon RX 9000 : la hausse des prix connue ?

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
2 décembre 2025 à 19:37

C'est l'heure du 3e round de rumeurs sur l'augmentation par AMD des prix de ses cartes graphiques destinées au grand public et principalement ses Radeon RX 9000 qui ont tant le vent en poupe ces dernières semaines, après que leurs tarifs soient enfin arrivés au niveau des prix de vente conseillés, e...

Michael and Susan Dell Donate $6.25 Billion To Encourage Families To Claim 'Trump Accounts'

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2 décembre 2025 à 19:19
Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to boost participation in the new "Trump Accounts" child investment program. "The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion, much less multiple billions," notes the Associated Press. "Announced on GivingTuesday, the Dells believe it's the largest single private commitment made to U.S. children." From the report: Its structure is also unusual. Essentially, it builds on the "Trump Accounts" program (PDF), where the U.S. Department of the Treasury will deposit $1,000 into investment accounts set up by Treasury for American children born between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2028. The Dells' gift will use the "Trump Accounts" infrastructure to give $250 to each qualified child under 10. Though the "Trump Accounts" became law as part of the president's signature legislation in July, the Dells say the accounts will not launch until July 4, 2026. Michael Dell said they wanted to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence. [...] Under the new law, "Trump Accounts" are available to any American child under 18 with a Social Security number and their families can fund the accounts, which must be invested in an index fund that tracks the overall stock market. When the children turn 18, they can withdraw the funds to put toward their education, to buy a home or to start a business. The Dells will put money into the accounts of children 10 and younger who live in ZIP codes with a median family income of $150,000 or less and who won't get the $1,000 seed money from the Treasury. The Dells hope their gift will encourage families to claim the accounts and deposit more money into it, even small amounts, so it will grow over time along with the stock market. The report notes that the timed rollout of the $1,000 deposits gives Republicans a strategic political advantage by delivering money to voters during the 2026 midterms and halting the benefit right after the 2028 presidential election.

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Raspberry Pi : augmentation des prix de 9 à 21% à cause de l'envolée des cours de la DRAM...

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Par :contact@hardwareand.co (David Sergent)
2 décembre 2025 à 18:40

On imagine de toute façon que tous ceux qui vendent des produits équipés de DRAM vont y passer à un moment ou un autre, et c'est en ce début décembre au tour de la Fondation Raspberry Pi de revoir à la hausse les tarifs officiels de certains de ses Raspberry Pi 4, ainsi que de toute la gamme Raspber...

Google's Vibe Coding Platform Deletes Entire Drive

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2 décembre 2025 à 18:18
A Google Antigravity user says the AI-driven "vibe coding" tool accidentally wiped his entire D: drive while trying to clear a project cache. Google says it's investigating, but the episode adds to a growing list of AI tools behaving in ways that "would get a junior developer fired," suggests The Register. From the report: We reached out to the user, a photographer and graphic designer from Greece, who asked we only identify him as Tassos M because he doesn't want to be permanently linked online to what could "become a controversy or conspiracy against Google." [...] Tassos told Antigravity to help him develop software that's useful for any photographer who has to choose a few prime shots from a mountain of snaps. He wanted the software to let him rate images, then automatically sort them into folders based on that rating. According to his Reddit post, when Tassos figured out the AI agent had wiped his drive, he asked, "Did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?". "No, you absolutely did not give me permission to do that," Antigravity responded. "I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part." Redditors, as they are wont to do, were quick to pounce on Tassos for his own errors, which included running Antigravity in Turbo mode, which lets the Antigravity agent execute commands without user input, and Tassos accepted responsibility. "If the tool is capable of issuing a catastrophic, irreversible command, then the responsibility is shared -- the user for trusting it and the creator for designing a system with zero guardrails against obviously dangerous commands," he opined on Reddit. As noted earlier, Tassos was unable to recover the files that Antigravity deleted. Luckily, as he explained on Reddit, most of what he lost had already been backed up on another drive. Phew. "I don't think I'm going to be using that again," Tassos noted in a YouTube video he published showing additional details of his Antigravity console and the AI's response to its mistake. Tassos isn't alone in his experience. Multiple Antigravity users have posted on Reddit to explain that the platform had wiped out parts of their projects without permission.

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Linux 6.19 Merges "klp-build" As New Livepatch Module Generation Solution

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Par :Michael Larabel
2 décembre 2025 à 18:00
Merged as part of the objtool changes for the Linux 6.19 kernel is introducing the "klp-build" script as a new solution to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch file as the input. This klp-build effort was spearheaded by Josh Poimboeuf with ideas learned from the out-of-tree Kpatch project over the past decade...

Zillow Drops Climate Risk Scores After Agents Complained of Lost Sales

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2 décembre 2025 à 17:17
Zillow has removed climate risk scores from over a million home listings after real estate agents argued the data was scaring off buyers. TechCrunch reports: Zillow first added the data to the site in September 2024, saying that more than 80% of buyers consider climate risks when purchasing a new home. But last month, following objections from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS), Zillow removed the listings' climate scores. In their place is a subtle link to their records at First Street, the climate risk analytic startup that provides the data. "When buyers lack access to clear climate-risk information, they make the biggest financial decision of their lives while flying blind," First Street spokesperson Matthew Eby told TechCrunch via email. "The risk doesn't go away; it just moves from a pre-purchase decision into a post-purchase liability." First Street's climate risk scores first appeared on Realtor.com in 2020, where they remain. They also still appear on Redfin and and Homes.com. The New York-based startup has raised more than $50 million from investors including General Catalyst, Congruent Ventures, and Galvanize Climate Solutions, according to PitchBook. Art Carter, the CRMLS CEO, told The New York Times that "displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property." He also questioned the accuracy of First Street's data, saying he didn't think that areas which haven't flooded in the last 40 to 50 years were likely to flood in the next five.

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☕️ Issue de Kyutai, la startup Gradium lève 60 millions d’euros pour ses IA vocales

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Par :Alexandre Laurent
2 décembre 2025 à 16:23

Cofinancé depuis 2023 par Xavier Niel (Free), Rodolphe Saadé (CMA-CGM) et Eric Schmidt (ex Google), le laboratoire de recherche Kyutai vient d’accoucher de son premier spin-off commercial, une startup baptisée Gradium. Quelques bonnes fées se sont déjà penchées sur le berceau de Gradium puisque pour fêter son lancement officiel, la jeune pousse annonce mardi avoir bouclé un premier tour de table de 70 millions de dollars (environ 60 millions d’euros).

« S’appuyant sur plus d’une décennie de recherche de pointe, notre mission est simple et ambitieuse : fournir les bases d’une IA capable de proposer en temps réelle une voix naturelle qui soit l’interface homme-machine par défaut », indique Gradium, dont le casting de départ réunit plusieurs des chercheurs fondateurs de Kuytai.

L’équipe de départ, qui compte dix personnes, est ainsi emmenée par Neil Zeghidour (ex Meta/Google DeepMind), Olivier Teboul (ex Google Brain), Laurent Mazaré (ex Google DeepMind/Jane Street) et Alexandre Défossez (ex Meta).

Moins de six mois après son immatriculation et trois mois après le début de ses activités, Gradium revendique déjà des outils de synthèse audio ou de transcription vocale en production, notamment au sein de studios de jeu vidéo, ou dans des plateformes linguistiques. « La plateforme accompagne aussi bien les développeurs que les entreprises, de l’accès API pour le prototypage rapide aux déploiements en entreprise pour les charges de travail en production », affirme l’entreprise, qui donne à tester certains de ses modèles sur son site Web et fournit des éléments de documentation technique.

Menée par les fonds Eurazeo et FirstMark Capital, cette levée de fonds associe DST Global Partners, Korelya Capital (Fleur Pellerin), Amplify Partners, Liquid2 et Drysdale Ventures, ainsi que les trois soutiens historiques de Kyutai que sont Niel, Saadé et Schmidt. Yann LeCun (sur le départ de Meta), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) et Mehdi Ghissassi (ex Deepmind).

Gradium propose des modèles de synthèse vocale (text to speech) et de transcription (speech to text)

☕️ Issue de Kyutai, la startup Gradium lève 60 millions d’euros pour ses IA vocales

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Par :Alexandre Laurent
2 décembre 2025 à 16:23

Cofinancé depuis 2023 par Xavier Niel (Free), Rodolphe Saadé (CMA-CGM) et Eric Schmidt (ex Google), le laboratoire de recherche Kyutai vient d’accoucher de son premier spin-off commercial, une startup baptisée Gradium. Quelques bonnes fées se sont déjà penchées sur le berceau de Gradium puisque pour fêter son lancement officiel, la jeune pousse annonce mardi avoir bouclé un premier tour de table de 70 millions de dollars (environ 60 millions d’euros).

« S’appuyant sur plus d’une décennie de recherche de pointe, notre mission est simple et ambitieuse : fournir les bases d’une IA capable de proposer en temps réelle une voix naturelle qui soit l’interface homme-machine par défaut », indique Gradium, dont le casting de départ réunit plusieurs des chercheurs fondateurs de Kuytai.

L’équipe de départ, qui compte dix personnes, est ainsi emmenée par Neil Zeghidour (ex Meta/Google DeepMind), Olivier Teboul (ex Google Brain), Laurent Mazaré (ex Google DeepMind/Jane Street) et Alexandre Défossez (ex Meta).

Moins de six mois après son immatriculation et trois mois après le début de ses activités, Gradium revendique déjà des outils de synthèse audio ou de transcription vocale en production, notamment au sein de studios de jeu vidéo, ou dans des plateformes linguistiques. « La plateforme accompagne aussi bien les développeurs que les entreprises, de l’accès API pour le prototypage rapide aux déploiements en entreprise pour les charges de travail en production », affirme l’entreprise, qui donne à tester certains de ses modèles sur son site Web et fournit des éléments de documentation technique.

Menée par les fonds Eurazeo et FirstMark Capital, cette levée de fonds associe DST Global Partners, Korelya Capital (Fleur Pellerin), Amplify Partners, Liquid2 et Drysdale Ventures, ainsi que les trois soutiens historiques de Kyutai que sont Niel, Saadé et Schmidt. Yann LeCun (sur le départ de Meta), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) et Mehdi Ghissassi (ex Deepmind).

Gradium propose des modèles de synthèse vocale (text to speech) et de transcription (speech to text)

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