Créateur de l’emblématique montre connectée Pebble, Eric Migicovsky a présenté mardi sa dernière création : une bague connectée faisant office de dictaphone.

Baptisée Pebble Index 01, disponible en trois coloris (argent, noir, or) et en plusieurs tailles, l’accessoire se veut une réponse simple à une problématique simple : enregistrer des notes au moment où l’idée survient, sans se soucier d’avoir à chercher son smartphone ou son bloc-notes. La bague présente un unique bouton, situé sur sa face supérieure, qui permet de déclencher un enregistrement audio, avec un clic sensible pour éviter les activations involontaires.

Les séquences enregistrées (jusqu’à cinq minutes peuvent être stockées sur la bague) sont ensuite transmises de façon chiffrée au smartphone de l’utilisateur via l’application Pebble, disponible en open source, sur Android ou iOS. C’est cette dernière qui se charge de les convertir en texte grâce à des modèles, eux aussi open source, exécutés en local.

Si les performances ne sont pas suffisantes, une option payante permet d’accéder à un modèle text-to-speech exécuté dans le cloud. À ce niveau, Eric Migicovsky a pour l’instant fait le choix de Whisper en local, et de Wispr Flow pour les traitements à distance.

Le fondateur de Pebble, qui a relancé ses célèbres montres connectées en début d’année, promet une approche très ouverte de son hardware. La Pebble Index 01 doit notamment permettre de paramétrer ses propres actions sur le bouton (par exemple, le déclenchement à distance de l’appareil photo de son smartphone), ou même de programmer des interactions vocales grâce à MCP (Model Context Protocol).

« L’Index 01 est avant tout conçue pour vous aider à mémoriser des informations. Nous souhaitons qu’elle soit parfaitement fiable dans sa fonction principale. Cependant, nous laissons la possibilité de la personnaliser et de créer de nouvelles interactions et actions », résume Eric Migicovsky.

Sur le plan physique, la conception de la bague présente toutefois une contrainte de taille : elle ne dispose pas d’une batterie rechargeable mais d’une pile à l’oxyde d’argent non remplaçable. « L’ajout d’un circuit de charge et l’intégration d’un chargeur rendraient le produit plus volumineux et plus cher », justifie Migicovsky. Il affirme que son entreprise assurera le recyclage des produits renvoyés par les clients, sans préciser les modalités de retour ou de traitement.

La durée de vie ne serait cependant pas un problème selon lui. La pile embarquée autorise en effet 12 à 15 heures d’enregistrement, ce qui offrirait une autonomie de plus de deux ans, dans un scénario dans lequel l’utilisateur procéderait à dix ou vingt enregistrements de trois à six secondes par jour.

La Pebble Index 01 est dès à présent proposée à la précommande pour 75 dollars, avec des livraisons prévues aux alentours de mars 2026. Son prix public s’établira ensuite à 99 dollars.

Créateur de l’emblématique montre connectée Pebble, Eric Migicovsky a présenté mardi sa dernière création : une bague connectée faisant office de dictaphone.

Baptisée Pebble Index 01, disponible en trois coloris (argent, noir, or) et en plusieurs tailles, l’accessoire se veut une réponse simple à une problématique simple : enregistrer des notes au moment où l’idée survient, sans se soucier d’avoir à chercher son smartphone ou son bloc-notes. La bague présente un unique bouton, situé sur sa face supérieure, qui permet de déclencher un enregistrement audio, avec un clic sensible pour éviter les activations involontaires.

Les séquences enregistrées (jusqu’à cinq minutes peuvent être stockées sur la bague) sont ensuite transmises de façon chiffrée au smartphone de l’utilisateur via l’application Pebble, disponible en open source, sur Android ou iOS. C’est cette dernière qui se charge de les convertir en texte grâce à des modèles, eux aussi open source, exécutés en local.

Si les performances ne sont pas suffisantes, une option payante permet d’accéder à un modèle text-to-speech exécuté dans le cloud. À ce niveau, Eric Migicovsky a pour l’instant fait le choix de Whisper en local, et de Wispr Flow pour les traitements à distance.

Le fondateur de Pebble, qui a relancé ses célèbres montres connectées en début d’année, promet une approche très ouverte de son hardware. La Pebble Index 01 doit notamment permettre de paramétrer ses propres actions sur le bouton (par exemple, le déclenchement à distance de l’appareil photo de son smartphone), ou même de programmer des interactions vocales grâce à MCP (Model Context Protocol).

« L’Index 01 est avant tout conçue pour vous aider à mémoriser des informations. Nous souhaitons qu’elle soit parfaitement fiable dans sa fonction principale. Cependant, nous laissons la possibilité de la personnaliser et de créer de nouvelles interactions et actions », résume Eric Migicovsky.

Sur le plan physique, la conception de la bague présente toutefois une contrainte de taille : elle ne dispose pas d’une batterie rechargeable mais d’une pile à l’oxyde d’argent non remplaçable. « L’ajout d’un circuit de charge et l’intégration d’un chargeur rendraient le produit plus volumineux et plus cher », justifie Migicovsky. Il affirme que son entreprise assurera le recyclage des produits renvoyés par les clients, sans préciser les modalités de retour ou de traitement.

La durée de vie ne serait cependant pas un problème selon lui. La pile embarquée autorise en effet 12 à 15 heures d’enregistrement, ce qui offrirait une autonomie de plus de deux ans, dans un scénario dans lequel l’utilisateur procéderait à dix ou vingt enregistrements de trois à six secondes par jour.

La Pebble Index 01 est dès à présent proposée à la précommande pour 75 dollars, avec des livraisons prévues aux alentours de mars 2026. Son prix public s’établira ensuite à 99 dollars.

Les cartes graphiques dédiées Moore Threads S70 et S80 ont le droit à un doublement de leur performance In Game grâce à la dernière mise à jour des pilotes. La nouvelle mise à jour des pilotes en version 240.90 par Moore Threads a été testée par le site IT EJ Hardware et montre un gain de performance de plus de 100% dans des benchmarks synthétiques tels que 3DMark Fire Strike, et un doublement dans des jeux tels que Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, League of Legends, Crossfire, Risk of Rain 2 et DOTA 2. […]

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Le studio GSC Game World nous annonce le déploiement d'un patch 1.7.1 pour son jeu S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, sauf directive contraire de votre part, le téléchargement vous sera proposé à l'ouverture de votre launcher. On nous promet de nombreuses corrections de bugs et une stabilisation des performances, le studio remercie les joueurs sur leurs retours, qui permettent l'amélioration continue du titre : "Merci beaucoup pour vos commentaires et votre soutien continus. Les commentaires que vous postez sur les réseaux sociaux et les rapports de bogues que vous envoyez au centre d'assistance technique contribuent à améliorer la Zone à chaque mise à jour. Continuez à partager vos impressions ici sur Steam et sur les autres réseaux sociaux, et si vous remarquez une anomalie qui ne devrait pas se produire dans la Zone, signalez-la au centre d'assistance technique." […]

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Nous n'allons pas vous rabâcher toutes les news sur le sujet, mais vous le savez, nous le savons, les prix de la mémoire explosent. À tel point que certains kits sont maintenant plus chers que la GeForce RTX 5090, qui n'est pourtant pas la plus accessible des cartes graphiques. C'est en effet le constat que fait VideoCardz ce matin en comparant le prix de certains kits DDR5 avec la carte haut de gamme des verts. Par exemple, un kit Corsair Vengeance en 4 x 48 Go 5200 s'affiche désormais sur le site de la marque à quelques 2224 dollars, soit au-dessus du MSRP de la RTX 5090. […]

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Aujourd'hui, la mise à jour Offensive hivernale de Battlefield 6 est lancée, ajoutant encore plus de nouveau contenu, et Doll Impostor prend désormais en charge notre dernier modèle d'IA pour le DLSS Super Resolution. […]

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Le revendeur suédois Inet.se a décidé de mettre en pause les expéditions de la très haut de gamme ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 ROG Matrix, après avoir identifié une possible irrégularité dans les premiers lots produits. Un message a été envoyé aux clients : le magasin attend des précisions d'ASUS avant de relancer les envois. Aucun défaut confirmé n'a été détaillé publiquement, mais les premières informations pointent vers un souci d'ordre mécanique / assemblage plutôt que vers l'électronique ou les performances du GPU. Il pourrait s'agir d'un élément comme : - une pression de montage irrégulière, - un souci d'alignement du radiateur, - ou une tolérance d'assemblage qui ne correspond pas exactement aux spécifications. […]

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A major scientific report published Tuesday argues that sending astronauts to Mars is justified by the quest to find life and conduct research that robots alone can't achieve. "We're searching for life on Mars," said Dava Newman, a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chair of the committee that wrote the report. "The answer to the question 'are we alone' is always going to be 'maybe,' unless it becomes yes." Ars Technica reports: The report, two years in the making and encompassing more than 200 pages, was published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Essentially, the committee co-chaired by Newman and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, director of the University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, was asked to identify the highest-priority science objectives for the first human missions to Mars. [...] "There's no turning back," Newman said. "Everyone is inspired by this because it's becoming real. We can get there. Decades ago, we didn't have the technologies. This would have been a study report." The goal of the report is to help build a case for meaningful science to be done on Mars alongside human exploration. The report outlines 11 top-priority science objectives. [...] The committee also looked at different types of campaigns to determine which would be most effective for completing the science objectives noted above. The campaign most likely to be successful, they found, was an initial human landing that lasts 30 days, followed by an uncrewed cargo delivery to facilitate a longer 300-day crewed mission on the surface of Mars. All of these missions would take place in a single exploration zone, about 100 km in diameter, that featured ancient lava flows and dust storms. Notably, the report also addresses the issue of planetary protection, a principle that aims to protect both celestial bodies (i.e., the surface of Mars) and visitors (i.e., astronauts) from biological contamination. [...] In recent years, NASA has been working with the International Committee on Space Research to design a plan in which human landings might occur in some areas of the planet, while other parts of Mars are left in "pristine" condition. The committee said this work should be prioritized to reach a resolution that will further the design of human missions to Mars. "NASA should continue to collaborate on the evolution of planetary protection guidelines, with the goal of enabling human explorers to perform research in regions that could possibly support, or even harbor, life," the report states.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5 billion of environmental damage per hour, according to a major UN report. Ending this harm was a key part of the global transformation of governance, economics and finance required "before collapse becomes inevitable," the experts said. The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report, which is produced by 200 researchers for the UN Environment Program, said the climate crisis, destruction of nature and pollution could no longer be seen as simply environmental crises. "They are all undermining our economy, food security, water security, human health and they are also [national] security issues, leading to conflict in many parts of the world," said Prof Robert Watson, the co-chair of the assessment. [...] The GEO report is comprehensive -- 1,100 pages this year -- and is usually accompanied by a summary for policymakers, which is agreed by all the world's countries. However, strong objections by countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Turkey and Argentina to references to fossil fuels, plastics, reduced meat in diets and other issues meant no agreement was reached this time. [...] The GEO report emphasized that the costs of action were much less than the costs of inaction in the long term, and estimated the benefits from climate action alone would be worth $20 trillion a year by 2070 and $100 trillion by 2100. "We need visionary countries and private sector [companies] to recognize they will make more profit by addressing these issues rather than ignoring them," Watson said. [...] One of the biggest issues was the $45 trillion a year in environmental damage caused by the burning of coal, oil and gas, and the pollution and destruction of nature caused by industrial agriculture, the report said. The food system carried the largest costs, at $20 trillion, with transport at $13 trillion and fossil-fuel powered electricity at $12 trillion. These costs -- called externalities by economists -- must be priced into energy and food to reflect their real price and shift consumers towards greener choices, Watson said: "So we need social safety nets. We need to make sure that the poorest in society are not harmed by an increase in costs." The report suggests measures such as a universal basic income, taxes on meat and subsidies for healthy, plant-based foods. There were also about $1.5 trillion in environmentally harmful subsidies to fossil fuels, food and mining, the report said. These needed to be removed or repurposed, it added. Watson noted that wind and solar energy was cheaper in many places but held back by vested interests in fossil fuel. The climate crisis may be even worse than thought, he said: "We are likely to be underestimating the magnitude of climate change," with global heating probably at the high end of the projections made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Removing fossil fuel subsidies could cut emissions by a third, the report said.

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A l'approche des fêtes de fin d'année, achetez une clé Windows 11 Pro pour 21 U+20AC.Et donc, pourquoi pas un nouvel OS pour Noël ? En plus, vous le savez, Microsoft a officiellement mis fin au support de Windows 10. Il est donc plus que temps de passer à Windows 11. Bonne nouvelle : grâce à notre partenaire GVGMALL, pas besoin de vous ruiner pour obtenir une licence authentique, ni d'endurer le fameux message Windows non activé en bas de l'écran. Pourquoi ? Parce que GVGMALL.com propose des clés OEM authentiques à des tarifs ultra-avantageux : - Windows 11 dès 21 U+20AC - Licences Office dès 27 U+20AC Avec le code promo CCVIP, profitez en plus de -30 % de réduction sur vos achats. Et malin : pour économiser quelques euros supplémentaires, vous pouvez aussi acheter une licence Windows 10 puis faire l'upgrade gratuit vers Windows 11. Offres spéciales avec le code promo CCVIP Voici les meilleurs deals disponibles chez GVGMALL : - Windows 11 Pro OEM Lifetime - 21 U+20AC - Windows 10 Pro OEM Lifetime - 16 U+20AC - Windows 11 Home OEM Lifetime - 19 U+20AC - Windows 10 Home OEM Lifetime - 13 U+20AC - Microsoft Office 2016 Lifetime - 27 U+20AC - Microsoft Office 2019 Lifetime - 52 U+20AC - Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 - 11 U+20AC - Windows 10 Pro OEM + Office 2016 - 34 U+20AC - Windows 10 Pro OEM + Office 2019 - 52 U+20AC - Windows 11 Home + Office 2021 Pro Plus - 88 U+20AC - Windows 11 Pro OEM + Office 2021 Pro Plus - 87 U+20AC […]

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OpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as agentic systems move into real production. It may sound well-meaning, but Slashdot reader and NERDS.xyz founder BrianFagioli isn't buying the narrative. In a report for NERDS.xyz, Fagioli writes: Instead of opening models, training data, or anything that would meaningfully shift power toward the community, the companies involved are donating lightweight artifacts like AGENTS.md, MCP, and goose. They're useful, but they're also the safest, least threatening pieces of their ecosystem to "open." From where I sit, it looks like a strategic attempt to lock in influence over emerging standards before truly open projects get a chance to define the space. I see the entire move as smoke and mirrors. With regulators paying closer attention and developer trust slipping, creating a Linux Foundation directed fund gives these companies convenient cover to say they're being transparent and collaborative. But nothing about this structure forces them to share anything substantial, and nothing about it changes the closed nature of their core technology. To me, it looks like Big Tech trying to set the rules of the game early, using the language of openness without actually embracing it. Slashdot readers have seen this pattern before, and this one feels no different.

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Netflix's $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery has triggered a consumer class action claiming the merger would crush competition, erase HBO Max as a rival, and hand Netflix control over major franchises. Reuters reports: The proposed class action (PDF) was filed on Monday by a subscriber to Warner Bros-owned HBO Max who said the proposed deal threatened to reduce competition in the U.S. subscription video-on-demand market. "Netflix has demonstrated repeated willingness to raise subscription prices even while facing competition from full-scale rivals such as WBD," the lawsuit said. [...] The lawsuit said the Warner Bros deal would eliminate one of Netflix's closest rivals, HBO Max, and give Netflix control over Warner Bros marquee franchises including Harry Potter, DC Comics and Game of Thrones. On Monday, Paramount Skydance launched a $108 billion hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer.

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The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" today signed off on a new feature for Fedora Cloud 44 to switch /boot to being as a Btrfs sub-volume rather than a separate partition...

The RISC-V CPU architecture changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

Longtime Slashdot reader Randseed writes: With the likes of Google Nest, Ring, and others cooperating with law enforcement, I started to look for affordable wireless IP security cameras that I can put around my house. Unfortunately, it looks like almost every thing now incorporates some kind of cloud-based slop. All I really want is to put up some cameras, hook them up to my LAN, and install something like ZoneMinder. What are the most economical, wireless IP security cameras that I can set up with my server?

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company: More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food, and other basic needs. The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual "Year in Help" report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as rent, utilities, and groceries jumped 20%, according to the company's 2025 review, after already quadrupling last year. "Monthly bills" were the second fastest-growing category behind individual support for nonprofits. The number of "essentials" fundraisers has increased over the last three years in all of the company's major English-speaking markets, according to GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan. That includes the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. In the United States, the self-published report comes at the end of a year that has seen weakened wage growth for lower-income workers, sluggish hiring, a rise in the unemployment rate and low consumer confidence in the economy. [...] Among campaigns aimed at addressing broader community needs, food banks were the most common recipient on GoFundMe this year. The platform experienced a nearly sixfold spike in food-related fundraisers between the end of October and first weeks of November, according to Cadogan, as many Americans' monthly SNAP benefits got suddenly cut off during the government shutdown.

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Congress quietly removed provisions that would have let the U.S. military fix its own equipment without relying on contractors, despite bipartisan and Pentagon support. The Register reports: The House and Senate versions of the NDAA passed earlier both included provisions that would have extended common right-to-repair rules to US military branches, requiring defense contractors to provide access to technical data, information, and components that enabled military customers to quickly repair essential equipment. Both of those provisions were stripped from the final joint-chamber reconciled version of the bill, published Monday, right-to-repair advocates at the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) pointed out in a press release. [...] According to PIRG's press release on the matter, elected officials have been targeted by an "intensive lobbying push" in recent weeks against the provisions. House Armed Services Committee chair Mike Rogers (R-AL) and ranking Democrat Adam Smith (D-WA), responsible for much of the final version of the bill, have received significant contributions from defense contractors in recent years, and while correlation doesn't equal causation, it sure looks fishy. [Isaac Bowers, PIRG's federal legislative director] did tell us that he was glad that the defense sector's preferred solution to the military right to repair fight -- a "data as a service" solution -- was also excluded, so the 2026 NDAA isn't a total loss for the repairability fight. "That provision would have mandated the Pentagon access repair data through separate vendor contracts rather than receiving it upfront at the time of procurement, maintaining the defense industry's near monopoly over essential repair information and keeping troops waiting for repairs they could do quicker and cheaper themselves," Bowers said in an email. An aide to the Democratic side of the Committee told The Register the House and Senate committees did negotiate a degree of right-to-repair permissions in the NDAA. According to the aide and a review of the final version of the bill, measures were included that require the Defense Department to identify any instances where a lack of technical data hinders operation or maintenance of weapon systems, as well as aviation systems. The bill also includes a provision that would establish a "technical data system" that would "track, manage, and enable the assessment" of data related to system maintenance and repair. Unfortunately, the technical data system portion of the NDAA mentions "authorized repair contractors" as the parties carrying out repair work, and there's also no mention of parts availability or other repairability provisions in the sections the staffer flagged -- just access to technical data. That means the provisions are unlikely to move the armed forces toward a new repairability paradigm.

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Australia's world-first ban blocking under-16s from major social platforms has come into effect. The BBC is live reporting the reactions "both from within Australia and outside it." From the report: I've been speaking to 12-year-old Paloma, who lives in Sydney and says she is "sad" about the ban. She spends between 30 minutes and two hours a day on social media. "I'm upset... because I am part of several communities on Snapchat and TikTok," she tells me. "I've developed good friendships on the apps, with people in the US and New Zealand, who have common interests like gaming, and it makes me feel more connected to the world." Paloma says she regularly talks about the ups and downs of her life with a boy of the same age in New Jersey, in the US, who she knows through gaming and TikTok. "I feel like I can explore my creativity when I am in a community online with people of similar ages," she says. Everyone Paloma knows is "a bit annoyed" about the ban. By stopping them from using social media, she says "the government is taking away a part of ourselves." Two 15-year-olds, Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, backed by a rights group, are arguing at Australia's highest court that the legislation robs them of their right to free communication. The Digital Freedom Project (DFP) announced the case had been filed in the High Court late last month. After news of the case broke, Australia's Communications Minister Anika Wells told parliament the government would not be swayed. "We will not be intimidated by threats. We will not be intimidated by legal challenges. We will not be intimidated by big tech. On behalf of Australian parents, we will stand firm," she said.

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AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of Apple were battered earlier this year as the iPhone maker faced repeated complaints about its lack of an artificial intelligence strategy. But as the AI trade faces increasing scrutiny, that hesitance has gone from a weakness to a strength -- and it's showing up in the stock market. Through the first six months of 2025, Apple was the second-worst performer among the Magnificent Seven tech giants, as its shares tumbled 18% through the end of June. That has reversed since then, with the stock soaring 35%, while AI darlings like Meta Platforms and Microsoft slid into the red and even Nvidia underperformed. The S&P 500 Index rose 10% in that time, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index gained 13%. [...] As a result, Apple now has a $4.1 trillion market capitalization and the second biggest weight in the S&P 500, leaping over Microsoft and closing in on Nvidia. The shift reflects the market's questioning of the hundreds of billions of dollars Big Tech firms are throwing at AI development, as well as Apple's positioning to eventually benefit when the technology is ready for mass use. "It is remarkable how they have kept their heads and are in control of spending, when all of their peers have gone the other direction," said John Barr, portfolio manager of the Needham Aggressive Growth Fund. Bill Stone, chief investment officer at Glenview Trust Company, added: "While they most certainly will incorporate more AI into the phones over time, Apple has avoided the AI arms race and the massive capex that accompanies it." His company views Apple's stock as "a bit of an anti-AI holding."

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