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Reçu aujourd’hui — 6 mars 2026 ⏭ Actualités numériques

Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games

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Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 03:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 80 Level: Microsoft has officially confirmed development of its next-generation Xbox console, currently known internally as Project Helix. While concrete details remain limited, early information suggests the company is positioning the device as a hybrid between a traditional console and a gaming PC, capable of running both Xbox titles and PC games. The codename was revealed recently by new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who reaffirmed Microsoft's continued commitment to dedicated gaming hardware despite speculation that the company might shift entirely toward cloud or platform-based ecosystems. According to Sharma, Project Helix represents the next step in Xbox's console strategy. Although official specifications have not yet been announced, early reports indicate the system will likely rely on a new AMD system-on-chip combining Xbox hardware with PC-style architecture. The device is expected to emphasize high performance while maintaining compatibility with existing Xbox game libraries. [...] If the concept holds, Project Helix could mark a significant shift in how console ecosystems are structured, moving away from tightly closed hardware platforms toward something closer to a unified PC-console environment. Sharma wrote in a post on X: "Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox, including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console. Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!"

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Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

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Par : BeauHD
6 mars 2026 à 01:00
The Pentagon has formally designated Anthropic as a "supply chain risk," ordering federal agencies and defense contractors to stop using its AI tools after the company sought limits on the military's use of its models. In a written statement, the department said it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately." Politico reports: The designation, historically reserved for foreign firms with ties to U.S. adversaries, will likely require companies that do business with the U.S. military -- or even the federal government in general -- to cut ties with Anthropic. "From the very beginning, this has been about one fundamental principle: the military being able to use technology for all lawful purposes," the Pentagon said in the statement. "The military will not allow a vendor to insert itself into the chain of command by restricting the lawful use of a critical capability and put our warfighters at risk." A spokesperson for Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the company said last week it would fight a supply-chain risk label in court.

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Reçu hier — 5 mars 2026 ⏭ Actualités numériques

Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 23:00
Apple has removed the 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio, leaving 256GB as the new maximum. The remaining 256GB upgrade has also increased in price and now faces longer shipping delays as demand grows "due to consumers seeking machines suitable for running local AI agents," reports MacRumors. From the report: The Mac Studio starts with 36GB RAM, but there were upgrades ranging from 48GB to 512GB, with the higher tier upgrades limited to the M3 Ultra chip. Now there are options ranging from 48GB to 256GB, with wait times into May for the 256GB upgrade. Apple has also raised the price for the 256GB RAM upgrade option. It used to cost $1,600 to go from 96GB to 256GB on the high-end M3 Ultra machine, but now it costs $2,000. 512GB was $4,000 when it was available.

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System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws

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Par : Michael Larabel
5 mars 2026 à 22:33
System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment...

United Airlines Can Now Boot Passengers Who Refuse To Use Headphones

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 22:00
United Airlines has updated its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when playing audio or video on personal devices during flights. Travelers who refuse could be removed from the plane or even permanently banned from flying with the airline, reports CBS News. United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack... Further reading: Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.

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Trump's TikTok Deal Benefited Firms That 'Personally Enriched' Him, Lawsuit Says

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 21:00
An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of investors tied to the administration. The suit claims the arrangement violates a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest and alleges the deal financially benefited Trump allies while leaving the platform's algorithm under Chinese ownership. NBC News reports: The suit, filed by the Public Integrity Project, a law firm that seeks to raise the "reputational cost of corruption in America," argues the deal violates a law intended to prevent the spread of Chinese government propaganda and has enriched Trump's allies. That law, signed by then-President Joe Biden in 2024, said that TikTok couldn't be distributed in the United States unless the Chinese company ByteDance found an American-based corporate home by the day before Donald Trump returned to office. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court. "The law was clear, but it was never enforced," says the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Shortly after the deadline to divest passed, President Trump issued an executive order purportedly granting an extension for TikTok to find a domestic owner and directed his Attorney General not to enforce the law." The plaintiffs in the suit are two software engineers from California: One is a shareholder in Alphabet Inc., YouTube's parent company; the other is a shareholder in Meta Platforms, Inc., which is Instagram's parent company. Both say they suffered financially due to the non-enforcement of the law. "The original motivation for this law was to prevent the Chinese government from pushing propaganda onto American audiences," said Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project and a former Justice Department prosecutor. "The deal that the president approved is the absolute worst of all possible worlds, because right now ByteDance continues to own the algorithm, which means that it can censor the content that it doesn't like, but at the same time Oracle controls the data and it can censor the information that it doesn't like. Really it's a situation that's going to be terrible for users, and terrible for free speech on the platform."

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AMD Will Bring Its 'Ryzen AI' Processors To Standard Desktop PCs For First Time

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 20:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AMD has been selling "Ryzen AI"-branded laptop processors for around a year and a half at this point. In addition to including modern CPU and GPU architectures, these are attempting to capitalize on the generative AI craze by offering chips with neural processing units (NPUs) suitable for running language and image-generation models locally, rather than on some company's server. But so far, AMD's desktop chips have lacked both these higher-performance NPUs and the Ryzen AI label. That changes today, at least a little: AMD is announcing its first three Ryzen AI chips for desktops using its AM5 CPU socket. These Ryzen AI 400-series CPUs are direct replacements for the Ryzen 8000G processors, rather than the Ryzen 9000-series, and they combine Zen 5-based CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and an NPU capable of 50 trillion operations per second (TOPS). This makes them AMD's first desktop chips to qualify for Microsoft's Copilot+ PC label, which enables a handful of unique Windows 11 features like Recall and Click to Do. The six chips AMD is announcing today -- the 65 W Ryzen AI 7 Pro 450G, Ryzen AI 5 Pro 440G, and Ryzen AI 5 Pro 435G, along with low-power 35 W "GE" variants -- all bear AMD's "Ryzen Pro" branding as well, which means they support a handful of device management capabilities that are important for business PCs managed by IT departments. At this point, it doesn't seem as though AMD will be offering boxed versions to regular consumers; the Ryzen AI desktop chips will appear mainly in business PCs that don't need a dedicated graphics card but still benefit from more robust graphics than AMD offers in regular Ryzen desktop CPUs. Like past G-series Ryzen chips, these are essentially laptop silicon repackaged for desktop systems. They share most of their specs in common with Ryzen AI 300 laptop processors, despite their Ryzen AI 400-series branding. The two chip generations are extremely similar overall, but the Ryzen AI 400-series laptop CPUs include slightly faster 55 TOPS NPUs.

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OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 19:00
OpenAI today released GPT-5.4, an upgraded ChatGPT model designed to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate for workplace tasks. The update also introduces tools that let ChatGPT work directly inside Excel and Google Sheets. Axios reports: GPT-5.4 is designed to be less error-prone, more efficient and better at workplace tasks like drafting documents, OpenAI said. The new model can create files in fewer tries with less back-and-forth than prior models, the company said. GPT-5.4 outperformed office workers 83% of the time on GDPval, an OpenAI benchmark measuring performance on real-world tasks across 44 occupations. The model can also solve problems using fewer tokens, OpenAI says -- which can translate to faster responses and lower costs. The company is also debuting OpenAI for Financial Services, a set of new tools that includes the version of ChatGPT that runs inside spreadsheets and new apps and skills within ChatGPT. Partners include FactSet, MSCI, Third Bridge and Moody's.

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Un Snapdragon X2 Elite sur GeekBench, enfin des nouvelles du SoC fantôme de Qualcomm !

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Nicolas Derumigny)
5 mars 2026 à 18:45

Alors que le Snapdragon X2 Elite de Qualcomm n’a normalement plus de secrets pour vous — si ce n’est pas le cas, n’hésitez pas à jeter un œil à notre récapitulatif microarchitectural dédié —, un problème de taille se pose : mais où sont donc les produits et les tests associés ? Alors que certains cr...

Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned

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Par : Michael Larabel
5 mars 2026 à 18:35
The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...

Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 18:00
As part of Epic's settlement with Google over the Play Store, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney agreed to stop criticizing Google's app store practices until 2032 and even publicly support the revised policies. The deal also prohibits Epic from pushing for further changes to Google's platform rules. The Verge reports: On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic's rights to sue and disparage the company, he signed away his right to advocate for any further changes to Google's app store polices. He can't criticize Google's app store practices. In fact, he has to praise them. The contract states that "Epic believes that the Google and Android platform, with the changes in this term sheet, are procompetitive and a model for app store / platform operations, and will make good faith efforts to advocate for the same." He may even have to appear in other courts around the world to defend this deal with Google, and Google gets to make sure his public statements are supportive of the deal from here on out. And while Epic can still be part of the "Coalition for App Fairness," the organization that Epic quietly and solely funded to be its attack dog against Google and Apple, he can only point that organization at Apple now. "Google is opening up Android all the way with robust support for competing stores, competing payments, and a better deal for all developers. So, we've settled all of our disputes worldwide. THANKS GOOGLE!," Sweeney wrote in a post on X on Wednesday.

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Finalement, la première carte desktop grand public à incorporer des puces de 3 Go de GDDR7 serait bel et bien la RTX 5050

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Par : contact@hardwareand.co (Thibaut GALONNIER)
5 mars 2026 à 17:22

Ce matin, David vous informait que NVIDIA prévoyait de lancer une RTX 5050 dotée de 9 Go de GDDR7 via 3 puces de 3 Go, au lieu de 4 de 2 Go. Le changement de puces mémoire n'est pas le seul qui accompagnerait la nouvelle/prochaine venue : en effet, c'est de la GDDR6 20 Gbps  sur bus 128-bit actuelle...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls OpenAI's Messaging Around Military Deal 'Straight Up Lies'

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Par : BeauHD
5 mars 2026 à 17:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is not happy -- perhaps predictably so -- with OpenAI chief Sam Altman. In a memo to staff, reported by The Information, Amodei referred to OpenAI's dealings with the Department of Defense as "safety theater." "The main reason [OpenAI] accepted [the DoD's deal] and we did not is that they cared about placating employees, and we actually cared about preventing abuses," Amodei wrote. Last week, Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) failed to come to an agreement over the military's request for unrestricted access to the AI company's technology. Anthropic, which already had a $200 million contract with the military, insisted the DoD affirm that it would not use the company's AI to enable domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weaponry. Instead, the DoD -- known under the Trump administration as the Department of War -- struck a deal with OpenAI. Altman stated that his company's new defense contract would include protections against the same red lines that Anthropic had asserted. In a letter to staff, Amodei refers to OpenAI's messaging as "straight up lies," stating that Altman is falsely "presenting himself as a peacemaker and dealmaker." Amodei might not be speaking solely from a position of bitterness, here. Anthropic specifically took issue with the DoD's insistence on the company's AI being available for "any lawful use." [...] "I think this attempted spin/gaslighting is not working very well on the general public or the media, where people mostly see OpenAI's deal with the DoW as sketchy or suspicious, and see us as the heroes (we're #2 in the App Store now!)," Amodei wrote to his staff. "It is working on some Twitter morons, which doesn't matter, but my main worry is how to make sure it doesn't work on OpenAI employees."

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Bon Plan : le jeu Turnip Boy Robs a Bank offert par Epic Games

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5 mars 2026 à 16:10

Vous avez toujours rêvé d'être un navet braqueur de banques ? Le jeu Turnip Boy Robs a Bank vous est destiné et bonne nouvelle, il est offert par le store virtuel d'Epic Games, vous avez jusqu'au 12 mars 2026, 17 heures, pour effectuer l'ajout ici. Préparez-vous à braquer des banques, traîner sur le dark web et affronter la flicaille, même si vous n'êtes qu'un navet ! Navet un jour, navet toujorus ! P'tit Navet est prêt à commettre de nouveaux crimes dans ce jeu d'action-aventure humoristique aux éléments de roguelite. Cette fois-ci, notre criminel endurci fait équipe avec le redoutable Gang de la saumure pour planifier et exécuter le casse le plus bizarre de tous les temps ! Prenez des otages, volez des objets précieux et explorez les profondeurs sombres et le passé de la Banque botanique. Pour réussir le casse parfait, vous devrez acheter des outils loufoques et dangereux sur le dark web, y compris une pioche en diamant, du C4 et un brouilleur radio. Mais la vie d'un braqueur n'est jamais facile, alors préparez-vous à des fusillades intenses avec les agents de sécurité, la police, des équipes d'intervention d'élite et autres. […]

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Bon Plan : un pack pour Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms offert par Epic Games

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5 mars 2026 à 16:05

Entamons la découverte des cadeaux du store d'Epic Games, en cette fin de semaine, avec un pack pour Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, vous l'obtiendrez en vous connectant au jeu durant la semaine qui va s'écouler. Tous les détails se trouvent ici. Offre limitée : pack de Raistlin - GRATUIT ! CONNECTEZ-VOUS LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE : ajoutez Raistlin Majere, le premier champion des Héros de la Lance, à votre collection ! Le pack ensemble Champions de renom de Raistlin contient jusqu'à 100 $ de contenu. Il est GRATUIT en vous connectant à Epic Games Store entre le 5 et le 12 mars à 11 h (ET) ! Déverrouillez Raistlin, Gayle, Spurt, Briv et Ellywick ainsi que 32 coffres de platine pour chacun d'entre eux, deux potions d'une semaine et un familier Draconien baaz exclusif ! À PROPOS DU JEU Recrutez des champions légendaires pour l'aventure sans fin ultime ! Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms est un jeu de stratégie et de gestion qui réunit des champions emblématiques issus de campagnes, de jeux vidéo, de romans, d'actual plays (parties filmées), de bandes dessinées et d'émissions du T-RPG DetD dans une grande aventure. Optimisez vos formations grâce à plus de 140 champions, possédant chacun des capacités uniques, pour vaincre d'innombrables monstres dans des centaines d'aventures. Gagnez en maîtrise en faisant passer vos formations à la vitesse supérieure à chaque aventure. Seules les formations les plus puissantes pourront relever les plus grands défis qu'Idle Champions a à offrir. […]

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