Les derniers détails concernant le jeu Forza Horizon 6 viennent d'être dévoilés, on a donc la confirmation de la date de sortie, les différents tarifs et une configuration recommandée ! Comme annoncé, le jeu sera officiellement disponible le 19 mai, prochain, avec un accès anticipé, de quatre jours, accordé aux acheteurs de la version Premium, découvrons les diverses versions proposes : Jeu de base à 69.99 euros • Disponible le 19 mai • Inclut le jeu complet Forza Horizon 6 Édition Deluxe à 99.99 euros • Disponible le 19 mai • Inclut le jeu complet • Pack de Bienvenue • Pass voiture Forza Horizon 6 Édition Premium à 119.99 euros • Jouez 4 jours en avance dès le 15 mai 2026 • Inclut le jeu complet • Abonnement VIP • Pack de Bienvenue • Pass Voiture • Pack Voiture "Time Attack” • Pack Voiture “Passion Italienne” (disponible après la sortie) • Extensions 1 et 2 (disponibles après la sortie) Quel PC pourfaire VroomVroom ? Configuration minimale : - OS : Windows 10 22H2 (version 19045) - Processeur : Intel i5-8400 ou AMD Ryzen 5 1600 - Mémoire : 16 Go - Carte graphique : Nvidia GTX 1650 ou AMD RX 6500 XT ou Intel Arc A380 / Arc B390 - Stockage : SSD […]

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The Wall Street Journal says that Meta "might be reaping some of the richest benefits from the AI boom so far." Meta's revenue grew 22% year over year in 2025 to $201 billion, and the company expects even bigger gains in the current quarter, potentially as high as 34%. That is huge growth for a company that brought in nearly $60 billion in the latest three-month period. And Zuckerberg signaled that Meta was just scratching the surface of AI's potential. "Our world-class recommendation systems are already driving meaningful growth across our apps and ads business. But we think that the current systems are primitive compared to what will be possible soon," he said on a call with investors and analysts... [Meta's Chief Financial Officer Susan] Li said the company doubled the number of graphics-processing units that it used to train its ad-ranking model in the fourth quarter and adopted a new learning architecture. Those actions led users to click on ads on Facebook 3.5% more often and to a gain of more than 1% in conversions, meaning purchases, subscriptions or leads, on Instagram, she said. Other AI-related improvements led to a 3% increase in conversions across its family of apps. On the ad-buying side, Meta has also been working toward using AI to automate ad creation for businesses that want to advertise their products or services on Facebook and Instagram. On the call, Li said the combined revenue run rate of video-generation tools hit $10 billion in the fourth quarter. In short, CNBC reported, Meta's stock price surged over 10% this week "after showing signs that AI investments are boosting the bottom line." Benjamin Black, an internet analyst at Deutsche Bank, explained the connection to the Wall Street Journal. "The more compute the ad platform gets, the far better it performs, and that's a real structural advantage that Meta has. If you can see that yesterday's spend is driving this month's growth, then as a good business person, you're going to continue to feed the beast." CNBC says now Meta "plans to spend between $115 billion and $135 billion on its AI build-out this year. That's nearly double what it spent in 2025."

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While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...

October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, "The world's largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000..." Bloomberg reports, "dropping about 40% from its 2025 peak..." "What began as a sharp crash in October has morphed into something more corrosive: a selloff shaped not by panic, but by absence of buyers, momentum and belief." Unlike the October drawdown, there's been no obvious spark, cascading liquidations or systemic shock — just fading demand, thinning liquidity, and a token that's untethered to broader markets. Bitcoin has failed to respond to geopolitical stress, dollar weakness, or risk rallies. Even during gold and silver's violent swings in recent weeks, crypto saw no rotation. Bitcoin fell nearly 11% in January, marking its fourth straight monthly decline — the longest losing streak since 2018, during the crash that followed the 2017 boom in initial coin offerings... Even more striking than the drop itself is the relative lack of optimism around it on social media. In a space known for relentless bravado and "number go up" memes, Bitcoin's slide has been met with little cheerleading or dip-buying fanfare... [Despite legislative wins and some institutional investments] Many investors say that optimism was front-run. Prices rallied early — and then stalled. Meanwhile, spot ETFs continue to bleed, a sign of weakening conviction among mainstream buyers — many of whom are now underwater after buying at higher prices. On Thursday, Bitcoin closed at 88,228. By Sunday it had plunged another 13%, to 76,790...

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Walmart, the world's largest retailer, will be adding spaces for electric vehicle charging to parking lots in 19 different states, reports MLive: The move follows up on a plan announced in 2023 to build a network of charging stations at Walmart and Sam's Club stores throughout the U.S... "With a store or club located within 10 miles of approximately 90% of Americans, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a convenient charging option that will help make EV ownership possible whether people live in rural, suburban or urban areas," wrote Walmart Senior Vice President of Energy Transformation, Vishal Kapadia in 2023. Walmart plans to have the nationwide network operating by 2030. Walmart plans to have the nationwide network operating by 2030. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis for sharing the news.

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Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community," remembers this 50th-anniversary commemoration of Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists. "As the first home computers began appearing in the 1970s, the world faced a question: Would its software be free?" Gates railed in 1976 that "Most of you steal your software." Gates had coded the BASIC interpreter for Altair's first home computer with Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff — only to see it pirated by Steve Wozniak's friends at the Homebrew Computing Club. Expecting royalties, a none-too-happy Gates issued his letter in the club's newsletter (as well as Altair's own publication), complaining "I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up." But freedom-loving coders had other ideas. When Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released their Apple 1 home computer that summer, they stressed that "our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or at minimal cost..." And early open-source hackers began writing their own free Tiny Basic interpreters to create a free alternative to the Gates/Micro-Soft code. This led to the first occurrence of the phrase "Copyleft" in October of 1976. Open Source definition author Bruce Perens shares his thoughts today. "When I left Pixar in 2000, I stopped in Steve Job's office — which for some reason was right across the hall from mine... " Perens remembered. "I asked Steve: 'You still don't believe in this Linux stuff, do you...?'" And Perens remembers how that movement finally won over Steve Jobs and carried the day. "Three years later, Steve stood onstage in front of a slide that said 'Open Source: We Think It's Great!' as he introduced the Safari browser, which at that time was based on the browser engine developed by the KDE Open Source project!"

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Vineyard Wind (powering Massachusetts) is one of five offshore wind projects "that the Trump administration tried to hold up in December," reports The Hill. This week it became the fourth of those wind projects allowed by a judge to resume construction, the article notes, while even the fifth project "is still awaiting court proceedings." Federal Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration's stop work order against Vineyard Wind... According to its website, when complete, Vineyard Wind would be able generate enough power for 400,000 homes and businesses. The project already has 44 operational wind turbines and was working on an additional 18. The Trump pause applied to the construction work that was not yet complete.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan "have created the world's smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots," according to a recent announcement. The announcement calls them "microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just a penny each." Barely visible to the naked eye, each robot measures about 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers, smaller than a grain of salt. Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine by monitoring the health of individual cells and manufacturing by helping construct microscale devices. Powered by light, the robots carry microscopic computers and can be programmed to move in complex patterns, sense local temperatures and adjust their paths accordingly... "We've made autonomous robots 10,000 times smaller," says Marc Miskin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn Engineering and the papers' senior author. "That opens up an entirely new scale for programmable robots." The announcement describes them as "the first truly autonomous, programmable robots at this scale" (as described in two recent academic articles). The team had to design a new propulsion system that utilized the unique locomotion physics in the microscopic realm, according to the university's announcement. So the robots "generate an electrical field that nudges ions in the surrounding solution." Those ions, in turn, push on nearby water molecules, animating the water around the robot's body. "It's as if the robot is in a moving river," says Miskin, "but the robot is also causing the river to move." The robots can adjust the electrical field that causes the effect, allowing them to move in complex patterns and even travel in coordinated groups, much like a school of fish, at speeds of up to one body length per second... To be truly autonomous, a robot needs a computer to make decisions, electronics to sense its surroundings and control its propulsion, and tiny solar panels to power everything, and all that needs to fit on a chip that is a fraction of a millimeter in size. This is where David Blaauw's team at the University of Michigan came into action... The robots are programmed by pulses of light that also power them. Each robot has a unique address that allows the researchers to load different programs on each robot. "This opens up a host of possibilities," adds Blaauw, "with each robot potentially performing a different role in a larger, joint task." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the news.

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This year in America, renewables and battery storage "will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included," reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign: EIA's latest monthly "Electric Power Monthly" report (with data through November 30, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest-growing among the major sources of US electricity... [U]tility-scale solar thermal and photovoltaic expanded by 34.5% while that from small-scale systems rose by 11.3% during the first 11 months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The combination of utility-scale and small-scale solar increased by 28.1% and produced a bit under 9.0% (utility-scale: 6.74%; small-scale: 2.13%) of total US electrical generation for January to November, up from 7.1% a year earlier. Wind turbines across the US produced 10.1% of US electricity in the first 11 months of 2025 — an increase of 1.2% compared to the same period in 2024. In November alone, wind-generated electricity was 2.0% greater than a year earlier... The mix of all renewables (wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, and geothermal) produced 8.7% more electricity in January-November than a year earlier and accounted for 25.7% of total US electricity production, up from 24.3% 12 months earlier. Renewables' share of electrical generation is now second to only that of natural gas, whose electrical output actually dropped by 3.7% during the first 11 months of 2025... Since January 1 to November 30, roughly the beginning of the Trump administration, renewable energy capacity, including battery storage, small-scale solar, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, ballooned by 45,198.1 MW, while all fossil fuels and nuclear power combined declined by 519.2 MW... [In 2026] natural gas capacity will increase by only 3,960.7 MW, which will be almost completely offset by a decrease of 3,387.0 MW in coal capacity.

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Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd...

"A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station," reports ScienceAlert, "and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections..." Scientists aboard the space station incubated different combinations of bacteria and phages for 25 days, while the research team led by biochemist Vatsan Raman carried out the same experiments in Madison, down here on Earth. "Space fundamentally changes how phages and bacteria interact: infection is slowed, and both organisms evolve along a different trajectory than they do on Earth," the researchers explain. In the weightlessness of space, bacteria acquired mutations in genes involved in the microbe's stress response and nutrient management. Their surface proteins also changed. After a slow start, the phages mutated in response, so they could continue binding to their victims. The team found that certain space-specific phage mutations were especially effective at killing Earth-bound bacteria responsible for urinary tract infections (UTIs). More than 90 percent of the bacteria responsible for UTIs are antibiotic-resistant, making phage treatments a promising alternative.

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GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities...

This year in America, renewables and battery storage "will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included," reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign: EIA's latest monthly "Electric Power Monthly" report (with data through November 30, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest-growing among the major sources of US electricity... [U]tility-scale solar thermal and photovoltaic expanded by 34.5% while that from small-scale systems rose by 11.3% during the first 11 months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. The combination of utility-scale and small-scale solar increased by 28.1% and produced a bit under 9.0% (utility-scale: 6.74%; small-scale: 2.13%) of total US electrical generation for January to November, up from 7.1% a year earlier. Wind turbines across the US produced 10.1% of US electricity in the first 11 months of 2025 — an increase of 1.2% compared to the same period in 2024. In November alone, wind-generated electricity was 2.0% greater than a year earlier... The mix of all renewables (wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, and geothermal) produced 8.7% more electricity in January-November than a year earlier and accounted for 25.7% of total US electricity production, up from 24.3% 12 months earlier. Renewables' share of electrical generation is now second to only that of natural gas, whose electrical output actually dropped by 3.7% during the first 11 months of 2025... Since January 1 to November 30, roughly the beginning of the Trump administration, renewable energy capacity, including battery storage, small-scale solar, hydropower, geothermal, and biomass, ballooned by 45,198.1 MW, while all fossil fuels and nuclear power combined declined by 519.2 MW... [In 2026] natural gas capacity will increase by only 3,960.7 MW, which will be almost completely offset by a decrease of 3,387.0 MW in coal capacity.

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The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself...

Si vous aviez encore un petit espoir de choper une GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition ou une GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition au MSRP, donc à 1059 et 2099 euros, NVIDIA a bien lâché un (petit) restock. Il s'agissait du premier vrai drop depuis début décembre, mais la fenêtre de tir a surtout ressemblé à un évènement éclair : quelques minutes tout au plus, avant que tout ne disparaisse. En clair : si vous n'étiez pas déjà connecté, prêt à dégainer avec alertes stock et rafraîchissement frénétique, c'était quasiment mission impossible. Et même en étant prêt, on parle d'un scénario où le stock s'évapore avant même d'avoir réellement existé pour la majorité des acheteurs. […]

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Non, mais clairement, cette semaine n'est pas top pour les prix des processeurs AMD et Intel. Vous allez le voir, nous allons boucler la chose très rapidement. On commence chez les bleus avec le Core i5-14600K qui baisse un peu, de 15 euros cette semaine. Après, le 14700K recule aussi, mais juste de trois euros. Le 14900K qui avait fortement baissé la semaine dernière, reprend 4 euros cette semaine. Continuons et terminons avec le 285K, un Core Ultra 9 qui augmente de 22 euros cette semaine... Il est temps de passer chez les rouges. […]

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Un MiniPC Bmax B4, une machine très classique ici sous Intel N95 accompagée de 16 Go de DDR4 sur un seul slot SODIMM et de 512 Go M.2 2280 SATA3. Rien de particulier mais comme vous êtes nombreux a me demander un MiniPC de ce type pour divers usages : domotique, bureautique, serveur, multimédia, pilotage de machines externes et autres, cela semble pouvoir faire confortablement le boulot pour pas trop cher. Le Bmax B4 est proposé à 173.40€ mais tombe à 153.40€ avec le code indiqué FRCD20.  Il est vendu sur AliExpress par la marque BMax et sera livré gratuitement depuis un stock en Allemagne. Attention, le code est probablement limité en usages.

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Le classique casque sans fil Bose QuietComfort SC qui propose une réduction active du bruit et une excellente connexion Bluetooth est en double promo chez la Fnac. L’appareil bénéficie d’une baisse de 100€ de son prix boutique une fois dans votre panier en plus de 15% de réduction. Il passe de 289.99€ à 146.65€.

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Un écran surdimensionné de 49″ en promo. Le TITAN ARMY C49SHC affiche en 3840 x 1080 pixels avec une dalle HVA incurvée 1800R au taux de rafraîchissement de 144 Hz,. Les fonctions de partage PIP/PBP permettent de connecter plusieurs machines au besoin avec des ports HDMI 2.0, DP 1.4, USB Type-C. La colorimétrie correspond à 94% de la norme DCI-P3 et la luminosité grimpe à 300 nits. L’engin est vendu en précommande à 499.99€ avec une expédition prévue pour le 6/02. Cet écran est également en vente sur Amazon à 699€.

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Un SSD Transcend MTS820S de 960 Go au foramt M.2 2280 SATA III. Pas une merveille mais si vous êtes à la recherche d’une solution pour 2026 pour faire évoluer un MiniPC ou un portable à ce format coincé dans un stockage de petite taille, cela peut faire l’affaire. A 80.99€ c’est cependant correct en ce moment.

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Chez Darty, un portable livré gratuitement. Signé Acer, ce Nitro V 17 est un 17.3″ 180 Hz musclé avec un AMD Ryzen 7 260 accompagné par 16 Go de DDR5 sur deux slots SODIMM et un SSD M.2 2280 NVMe de 1 To PCIe 4.0. Son circuit graphique est une GeForce RTX 5070 8Go. Le tout est piloté par un Win 11 et on retrouve Wi-Fi6E et Bluetooth 5.3, un clavier rétroéclairé, une belle connectique et… un poids élevé. Cet engin de 40 cm de large pèse 2.7 Kg. C’est donc plus un transportable qu’un portable. Il est proposé à 1399.99€.

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Le nouveau graveur laser SculpfuniCube Ultra Dual 12W + 1.2W. Un graveur laser efficace et précis qui filtre les fumées et bloque la lumière des lasers pour un usage facilité. Sa zone de gravure est de 150 x 135 mm ce qui permet de travailler de petits objets, de découper papier et carton et de signer des objets en bois et en cuir ou de graver des bijoux métalliques facilement. La double tête 12W et 1.2 W ajoute de multiples possibilités. L’engin est compatible avec les logiciels LaserGRBL, LightBurn et l’outil maison Sculpfun.  Le Sculpfun iCube Ultra Dual est proposé à 499€ mais baisse à 449€ avec le code NNNFRD1212, son stock est situé en Europe.

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Une solution triple combinés Panasonic. J’ai fait acheter la version double à une amie il y a peu. C’est simple, efficace, l’écran est très lisible et le tout est facile a configurer. Les options sont bonnes avec un répondeur facile a utiliser, une fonction main libre compréhensible, un vrai annuaire de numéros, un blocage d’appels par tranches de numéros et la possibilité de remplacer les batteries AAA dans le temps. Petit bonus, les câbles sont munis de détrompeurs pour qu’un néophyte puisse brancher le tout facilement même à distance. Enfin, la portée DECT est suffisante pour que la base avec répondeur relaie à bonne distance les combinés. Parfait pour une maison à étage ou un grand appartement. Pour 67.99€ c’est également parfait pour des personnes un peu âgées que l’on ne veut pas voir courir jusqu’à leur téléphone en cas d’appel. 

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20€ de réduction sur ce déshumidificateur HUMILABS 20L avec un réservoir de 4.5 litres et la possibilité d’installer un tuyau de vidange. Un appareil assez puissant pour une surface de 60 M² et qui peut aider à baisser l’hygrométrie d’un étage facilement. L’appareil se pilote via différentes plateformes d’automatisation en Wi-Fi et peut donc être activé en journée automatiquement. Pour obtenir la ristourne à 119€ il faut entrer le code NNNFROL20 dans votre panier.

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A noter que le modèle HUMILABS 12L avec réservoir 2 L et programmation par minuteur passe de 119€ à 95€ avec le code NNNFROL12

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Un écran 24.5″ MSI en FullHD avec une dalle IPS à petit prix. Parfait pour un usage classique et accompagner un MiniPC avec sa connexion VESA à l’arrière pour le monter simplement. Le MSI Pro MP252 affiche avec un rafraichissement de 100 Hz et propose des entrées HDMI et DisplayPort. Des enceintes stéréo sont également intégrées. A 69.99€ c’est un bon écran pour un poste classique.

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Enfin, une demande particulière mais j’aime faire plaisir à mes lecteurs ! Un petit poêle de camping pour Frank qui cherche à bivouaquer pour les prochaines vacances.  Je crois que ça répond parfaitement à sa demande. Le produit est en promo mais vous pouvez ajouter le code BG6014e7 pour l’obtenir à 51.18€.

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A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...

Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. Coming for the next kernel cycle is further extending the Uniwill platform driver for now having support for adjusting the custom total graphics power "cTGP" for those laptops with a dedicated GPU...

During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews in the Linux world over the past month...