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Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees

Par : BeauHD
26 janvier 2026 à 23:00
Google is adding Gemini-powered "Suggested times" to Google Calendar, automatically scanning attendees' calendars to surface the best meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The feature also streamlines rescheduling with one-click alternatives when invitees decline. Digital Trends reports: According to a recent post on the Workspace Updates blog, Gemini in Google Calendar can now help you quickly identify optimal meeting times when creating an event, as long as you have access to the attendees' calendars. The new "Suggested times" feature scans everyone's calendars and highlights the best time slots based on availability, working hours, and potential conflicts, eliminating the need to manually check schedules. Google has also made rescheduling simpler. The company explains that if multiple attendees decline your invite, you'll see a banner in the event showing a time when everyone is available, letting you update the invite with a single click. The feature is being rolled out starting today to eligible Workspace tiers. It will be enabled by default and is expected to reach all eligible users over the next few weeks.

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Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations

Par : BeauHD
26 janvier 2026 à 22:25
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly listened to people's private conversations through their phones. [...] the lawsuit claimed Google Assistant would sometimes turn on by mistake -- the phone thinking someone had said its activation phrase when they had not -- and recorded conversations intended to be private. They alleged the recordings were then sent to advertisers for the purpose of creating targeted advertising. The proposed settlement was filed on Friday in a California federal court, and requires approval by US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman. The claim has been brought as a class action lawsuit rather than an individual case -- meaning if it is approved, the money will be paid out across many different claimants. Those eligible for a payout will have owned Google devices dating back to May 2016. But lawyers for the plaintiffs may ask for up to one-third of the settlement -- amounting to about $22 million in legal fees. The tech firm also denied any wrongdoing, as well as claims that it "recorded, disclosed to third parties, or failed to delete, conversations recorded as the result of a Siri activation" without consent.

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DOT Plans To Use Google Gemini AI To Write Regulations

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 21:22
The Trump administration is planning to use AI to write federal transportation regulations, ProPublica reported on Monday, citing the U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers. From the report: The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI's "potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings," agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues. The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase "exciting new AI tools available to DOT rule writers to help us do our job better and faster." Discussion of the plan continued among agency leadership last week, according to meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. Gregory Zerzan, the agency's general counsel, said at that meeting that President Donald Trump is "very excited about this initiative." Zerzan seemed to suggest that the DOT was at the vanguard of a broader federal effort, calling the department the "point of the spear" and "the first agency that is fully enabled to use AI to draft rules." Zerzan appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. "We don't need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don't even need a very good rule on XYZ," he said, according to the meeting notes. "We want good enough." Zerzan added, "We're flooding the zone." These developments have alarmed some at DOT. The agency's rules touch virtually every facet of transportation safety, including regulations that keep airplanes in the sky, prevent gas pipelines from exploding and stop freight trains carrying toxic chemicals from skidding off the rails. Why, some staffers wondered, would the federal government outsource the writing of such critical standards to a nascent technology notorious for making mistakes? The answer from the plan's boosters is simple: speed. Writing and revising complex federal regulations can take months, sometimes years. But, with DOT's version of Google Gemini, employees could generate a proposed rule in a matter of minutes or even seconds, two DOT staffers who attended the December demonstration remembered the presenter saying.

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Valve Facing UK Lawsuit Over Pricing and Commissions

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 20:45
An anonymous reader shares a report: Video game developer and distributor Valve must face a 656 million-pound ($897.7 million) lawsuit in Britain, which alleges it charged publishers excessive commissions for its Steam online store, after a tribunal ruled on Monday the case could continue. Valve was sued in 2024 on behalf of up to 14 million people in the United Kingdom who bought games or additional content through Steam or other platforms since 2018. Lawyers representing children's welfare advocate Vicki Shotbolt, who is bringing the case, allege Valve prevents publishers selling products more cheaply or earlier on rival platforms to Steam by imposing conditions on them. They say Valve requires users to buy all additional content through Steam if they've bought that game through the platform, effectively "locking in" users to make purchases on its platform. This allows Valve to charge "unfair and excessive" commissions of up to 30%, Shotbolt's lawyers said at a hearing in October.

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New California Law Means Big Changes For Photos of Homes in Real Estate Listings

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 20:05
California house hunters now have legal protection against the kind of real estate photo trickery that has long plagued the home-buying process, as a new state law requiring disclosure of digitally altered listing images took effect on January 1. Assembly Bill 723 mandates that real estate agents and brokers include a "reasonably conspicuous" statement whenever photos have been altered using editing software or AI to add, remove, or change elements like furniture, appliances, flooring, views or landscaping. Agents must also provide access to the original, unaltered image through a QR code, link, or placement next to the altered photo. The law does not cover wide-angle lenses -- a perennial complaint among buyers who find rooms smaller than they appeared -- nor does it apply to routine adjustments like cropping, color correction or exposure. California is the first state to require such disclosures, though Wisconsin passed a similar law in December that takes effect next year.

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AMD Squeezing Out More More ROCm/HIP Performance With New Device-Side PGO

26 janvier 2026 à 20:03
Compiler profile guided optimization (PGO) techniques have paid off well for increasing CPU performance via application/workload-specific profiles fed back to the compiler to make more informed decisions. AMD compiler engineers have been working on crafting device-side PGO for their AMDGPU LLVM back-end for allowing ROCm/HIP workloads to achieve greater GPU performance. An initial merge request is now open for upstream LLVM...

GTA 6's Physical Release Could Be Delayed To 2027 Because of Leaks

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 19:28
An anonymous reader shares a report: An insider who correctly leaked information about Oblivion: Remastered and other titles is warning that GTA 6's physical release could be pushed back. GTA 6 is set to finally launch on November 19, 2026, but fans hoping to get their hands on a physical copy could be stuck waiting even longer. According to a report from Polish site PPE, insider Graczdari says Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two, isn't planning to release a physical edition of GTA 6 at launch. "We are getting more and more information that the box version will not be released simultaneously with the digital version to prevent leaks," the report says.

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Nike Says It's Investigating Possible Data Breach

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 18:53
Nike says it is investigating a potential data breach, after a group known for cyber attacks reportedly claimed to have leaked a trove of data related to its business operations. From a report: "We always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously," Nike said in a statement. "We are investigating a potential cyber security incident and are actively assessing the situation." The ransomware group World Leaks said on its website that it had published 1.4 terabytes of data from Nike.

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De la RTX 5070 presque mini-ITX chez Colorful, accompagnée de deux RTX 5060 Ti

18 cm, c'est pas mal diront certains, d'autres diront que pour y arriver, il suffit de la plier en deux, on parle bien entendu de cartes graphiques, même si on ne recommande pas de plier votre RTX pour ne pas la perdre pour de bon. Il y a une semaine, on vous parlait de Zephyr qui préparait sa RTX 4...

Television Turns 100

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 18:10
Television marks its centenary today, exactly 100 years after Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his electro-mechanical system to journalists and members of the Royal Institution in a cramped attic workshop above what is now Bar Italia in London's Soho. On January 26, 1926, small groups of visitors climbed to 22 Frith Street and watched fuzzy images of a ventriloquist's dummy called Stooky Bill appear on screen, followed by each other's faces transmitted from a separate room. One visitor got too close to the spinning discs and ended up with a sliced beard. The Times published a short account two days later. Baird had built his first transmitting equipment in Hastings in 1923 using a hatbox, tea chest, darning needles and bicycle light lenses. A 1000-volt electric shock and a displeased landlord pushed him to London, where Gordon Selfridge soon invited him to demonstrate the device during the store's Birthday Week celebrations. The building at 22 Frith Street now carries three plaques commemorating the invention.

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How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 17:30
An anonymous reader shares a report: From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making -- and breaking -- fortunes at a rapid pace. One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the ".ai" top-level domain in the mid-1990s. Indeed, since ChatGPT's launch at the end of 2022, the gold rush for websites to associate themselves with the burgeoning AI technology has seen a flood of revenue for the island of just ~15,000 people. In 2023, Anguilla generated 87 million East Caribbean dollars (~$32 million) from domain name sales, some 22% of its total government revenue that year, with 354,000 ".ai" domains registered. As of January 2, 2026, the number of ".ai" domains surpassed 1 million, per data from Domain Name Stat -- suggesting that the nation's revenue from ".ai" has likely soared, too. This is confirmed in the government's 2026 budget address, in which Cora Richardson Hodge, the premier of Anguilla, said, "Revenue from domain name registration continues to exceed expectations."

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Fixing Retail With Land Value Capture

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 16:50
The independent coffee shops and quirky boutiques that make neighborhoods like Hayes Valley in San Francisco or Williamsburg in Brooklyn desirable are caught in a frustrating economic trap: they create value that ends up in the pockets of nearby homeowners rather than their own cash registers. An essay in Works in Progress magazine argues that when an interesting new store or restaurant opens, commercial and residential property values rise in the surrounding area, but the retailer itself captures only a fraction of that value through its actual sales. Almost half of stores in one San Francisco shopping district shuttered within four years even as the neighborhood thrived and rents climbed. The authors propose several fixes drawn from historical and international practice. Shopping malls and mixed-use developments solve this through unified ownership, allowing a single entity to cross-subsidize interesting tenants. Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway buys land around new stations before building begins, making it one of the few profitable transit systems in the world. Business Improvement Districts let businesses tax themselves for shared amenities, though they currently don't capture value that spills over to nearby residents. The essay suggests creating hybrid institutions -- something between homeowners' associations and business improvement districts -- that could levy hyperlocal taxes to keep valued retail alive.

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ASRock ne fera pas de BIOS pour rendre Bartlett Lake-S compatible avec ses cartes mères LGA1700

Le 17 janvier, nous vous présentions une fuite concernant 6 processeurs Intel Bartlett Lake-S au socket LGA1700. Voici, pour rappel, leurs caractéristiques :Des modèles qui pourraient intéresser bien des possesseurs de PC en LGA1700 pour un "dernier upgrade", de par la présence uniquement de Perform...

ClawdBot : un agent IA personnel et multicanal… qui peut accéder à toutes vos données

26 janvier 2026 à 16:30
Loi de Murphy : tout ce qui est susceptible d'aller mal ira mal
ClawdBot : un agent IA personnel et multicanal… qui peut accéder à toutes vos données

Vous avez envie de disposer d’un agent IA capable de vous répondre sur de nombreux canaux de communication et d’accéder à vos données ? Le projet ClawdBot (licence MIT) pourrait répondre à vos besoins… mais attention à bien savoir ce que vous faites avec ce genre d’outils.

ClawdBot n’est pas un nouveau projet (il date de fin 2025) mais sa popularité a explosé sur GitHub depuis mi-janvier et il fait beaucoup parler de lui ces derniers jours.

ClawdBot, un agent à votre service (vous avez le choix dans le modèle)

Commençons par les présentations. ClawdBot est disponible depuis deux mois sur GitHub, sous licence MIT. Il se définit comme « un assistant personnel IA que vous utilisez sur vos machines. Il vous répond sur les canaux que vous utilisez déjà », notamment WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, Teams… Vous pouvez utiliser l’un ou l’autre des canaux (et aussi les mélanger), le bot est agnostique de la plateforme. De la documentation est disponible par ici.

Pour la partie IA, plusieurs solutions sont également possibles avec Claude (Anthropic est recommandé par les développeurs), mais aussi d’autres modèles comme ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google) et Copilot (Microsoft). Les développeurs mettent aussi en avant sa mémoire persistante. Il est conseillé d’avoir une formule payante, faute de quoi les limitations de la version gratuite devraient rapidement se faire sentir. Même avec une version payante, les « tokens » filent relativement vite, attention.

La Gateway est le cœur de l’agent IA, c’est ici que vous configurez les modèles et les interfaces accessibles. Elle peut être locale ou à distance, pour ne pas dépendre de votre machine par exemple. En effet, si ClawdBot est installé localement, vous ne pourrez pas l’appeler si votre ordinateur est éteint. Moins pratique selon vos usages.

Avec autorisation, ClawdBot peut accéder à vos données


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Patch Tuesday 2026 : après les PC qui refusaient de s’éteindre, en voici qui ne veulent plus démarrer

Lundi de la semaine passée, nous évoquions les déboires causés par le premier Patch Tuesday de 2026. Un bogue, parmi d’autres, bloquait l’arrêt ou la mise en veille prolongée de certaines machines... [Tout lire]

World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say

Par : msmash
26 janvier 2026 à 16:12
Nearly 3.8 billion people could face extreme heat by 2050 and while tropical countries will bear the brunt cooler regions will also need to adapt, scientists said Monday. From a report: Demand for cooling will "drastically" increase in giant countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, where hundreds of millions of people lack air conditioning or other means of beating the heat. But even a moderate increase in hotter days could have a "severe impact" in nations not used to such conditions like Canada, Russia and Finland, said scientists from the University of Oxford. In a new study, they looked at different global warming scenarios to project how often people in future might experience temperatures considered uncomfortably hot or cold. They found "that the population experiencing extreme heat conditions is projected to nearly double" by 2050 if global average temperatures rise 2C above preindustrial times.

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L’État veut généraliser « Visio », l’outil de webconf de La Suite Numérique d’ici 2027

26 janvier 2026 à 16:07
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L’État veut généraliser « Visio », l’outil de webconf de La Suite Numérique d’ici 2027

Pour montrer que le gouvernement veut sortir de la dépendance aux outils numériques américains, le ministre de la Fonction publique, David Amiel, annonce la généralisation de l’utilisation de l’outil Visio de La Suite numérique et l’abandon des licences Zoom du CNRS.

L’outil de visioconférence « Visio » de la plateforme La Suite numérique devra être utilisé (et donc utilisable) par l’ensemble des services de l’État d’ici 2027, a annoncé le ministère chargé de la fonction publique et de la réforme de l’État.

100 % des agents de l’État d’ici 2027

« Nous sommes devenus dépendants à Teams, à Zoom. Il faut donc au sein de l’État se désintoxiquer pour assurer la sécurité de nos échanges en toutes circonstances », constatait ce week-end le ministre David Amiel dans la Tribune du Dimanche. Dans son communiqué, le ministère évoque aussi GoTo Meeting ou Webex. Bref, bien trop de solutions de visio propriétaires et gérées par des entreprises américaines. Et, en ces temps où l’on peut se poser la question d’une éventuelle coupure du robinet de la tech US, la souveraineté numérique est sur toutes les lèvres.

« Le Premier ministre va ces prochains jours diffuser une circulaire pour l’officialiser : 100 % française, Visio sera progressivement déployée pour 100 % des agents de l’État », expliquait le ministre à nos confrères.

Visio est un outil développé par la Dinum au sein de sa plateforme La Suite numérique. L’outil ne sort pas d’un chapeau. Comme nous l’expliquions déjà en juin 2025, ce système de vidéoconférence (appelé La Suite Meet à l’époque) appuie son code (disponible sur GitHub en licence MIT) sur le travail de LiveKit.

Mais David Amiel annonce donc un passage à une plus grosse échelle pour cet outil de la Dinum. Jusque-là, il comptait 40 000 utilisateurs réguliers. Il va bientôt devoir accueillir 200 000 agents de la fonction publique d’ici peu puisqu’il est censé devenir, d’ici la fin du premier trimestre 2026, la solution de visio du CNRS, de l’Assurance Maladie, de la Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (DGFiP) et du ministère des Armées.

Le ministère en profite pour indiquer que le CNRS va abandonner ses licences Zoom. Les 34 000 agents, 120 000 chercheurs et les unités mixtes de recherche qui dépendent du centre devront officiellement passer par Visio (notons qu’en pratique, rien ne permet d’interdire à une personne du CNRS d’utiliser un autre logiciel).

Rappelons quand même que le CNRS avait aussi un outil interne de visioconférence appuyé sur le logiciel libre de visioconférence Big Blue Button. Mais celui-ci ne semble pas avoir eu le succès que la DSI du CNRS escomptait, peut-être à cause d’une infrastructure n’étant pas capable d’assurer une visioconférence fluide à ses utilisateurs.

Hébergé par Outscale, accompagné par l’ANSSI

C’est d’ailleurs l’enjeu autour de cette généralisation de l’utilisation de Visio à tous les fonctionnaires d’ici 2027 : l’outil de la DINUM sera-t-il déployé avec des moyens adéquats ?

Le ministère précise en tout cas que la solution est déployée « avec l’appui de l’ANSSI » et sera hébergée chez Outscale, filiale de Dassault Systèmes, sur une infrastructure labellisée SecNumCloud.

Visio intègre actuellement un outil de transcription en bêta, selon son GitHub. Le ministère explique que la startup française Pyannote est chargée de le développer. Visio devrait aussi intégrer « d’ici l’été 2026 » un outil de sous-titrage en temps réel développé par Kyutai, l’entreprise de R&D de Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé et Eric Schmidt.

Visio doit aussi « permettre d’économiser plusieurs millions d’euros par an car nous n’aurons plus à renouveler des licences auprès d’acteurs non-européens », selon David Amiel.

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